KRS 83.570: Executive departments and directors.

The board of aldermen may establish such executive departments by ordinance as it

deems necessary and proper for the efficient administration of governmental matters of

the city. The board of aldermen shall designate the duties and powers of departments so

established by ordinance and may transfer to any such department duties and powers

which it may have previously assigned to another department. Each department shall be

under the supervision and direction of a director appointed by the mayor and said

directors of any departments so appointed shall be removable at any time at the pleasure

of the mayor so appointing them, or any of his successors in office, but not by any officer

who may merely for the time be filling the office of mayor in the absence or du ring the

temporary disability of the regularly elected or appointed mayor. The directors of said

departments shall have the same qualifications as members of the legislative body of the

city and shall be selected for their special fitness for the work of t he departments, and

shall devote their entire time to the discharge of their duties and shall receive adequate

compensation fixed by ordinance. No member of the legislative body shall be eligible to

appointment as director of any department. Directors shal l hold office until they resign or

are removed as herein provided.