KRS 77.065: County officers are ex officio officers and other personnel of district --

Exception for county containing city of first class or consolidated local

government or county where largest city has population of 20,000 or more --

Effect of compact -- Employees of district upon establishment of consolidated

local government.

(1) The members of the fiscal court of a county shall be, and they are hereby designated

as, and empowered to act as, ex officio the air pollution control board of the air

pollution control district in such county.

(2) All county officers, their assistants, clerks, deputies, and employees, and all other

county employees shall be ex officio officers, assistants, deputies, clerks, and

employees respectively of the air pollution control dis trict in the county in which

they are employed. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, they shall perform

respectively the same various duties for the air pollution control district as for the

county without additional compensation, in order to carr y out the provisions of this

chapter.

(3) The provisions of subsections (1) and (2) of this section shall not be applicable to

any county containing a city of the first class, or a consolidated local government, or

to a county where the largest city in tha t county contains a population equal to or

greater than twenty thousand (20,000) based upon the most recent federal decennial

census.

(4) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter to the contrary, whenever a city of the

first class and a county contain ing such city have in effect a compact under KRS

79.310 to 79.330, the county shall provide all staff support, including a secretary -

treasurer and an air pollution control officer, to the air pollution control board

through county officers, assistants, clerks, deputies and employees. In such case, the

staff of the air pollution control board, including the secretary -treasurer and the air

pollution control officer, shall be deemed county employees and shall be subject to

the control of fiscal court. At the t ime the compact takes effect, the employees of

the air pollution control district shall be transferred to the service of the county

government; provided that all such employees who are in the classified service at

such time shall be continued in the classi fied service administered by county

government. Upon the establishment of a consolidated local government in a county

where a city of the first class and a county containing that city have had in effect a

cooperative compact pursuant to KRS 79.310 to 79.33 0, the employees of an air

pollution control district shall be deemed to be employees of the consolidated local

government and the provisions of this subsection shall be applied to the

consolidated local government.