KRS 67B.040: Executive director -- Qualifications and appointment.

The mayor of a consolidated local government or a fiscal court shall, at or subsequent to

the creation or maintenance of a metropolitan correctional services department, appoint

and employ an executive director of the metropolitan correctional services dep artment

who shall be well-educated, trained, and experienced in the administration of correctional

and rehabilitative public facilities, and who, together with assistant directors, to be

appointed and employed by the mayor or fiscal court, shall have full and complete

management of the department and all of its operations. The executive director of the

department, together with all assistant directors, shall be directly appointed by, and shall

serve at the pleasure of, the mayor or fiscal court, and may be removed and replaced upon

order of the mayor or fiscal court.