KRS 90.120: Civil service board -- Membership -- Appointment -- Term -- Vacancies --

Ineligibility for other office -- Removals.

(1) There is created and established in cities of the first class a civil service board to be

known as .... Civil Service Board. The bo ard consists of seven (7) members of

whom six (6) shall be appointed by the mayor and the mayor is the seventh member

ex officio. The mayor, as ex officio member, shall not have the right to vote except

when necessary to break a tie. The appointive members shall be selected equally

from the two (2) political parties casting the highest and the next highest number of

votes at the last preceding general election. All members shall be appointed for a

four (4) year term. Vacancies created by death, resignation and otherwise shall be

filled for the unexpired portion of the term only. Any member of the board

appointed according to the provisions of this section shall be eligible for

reappointment unless his reappointment would offend the equal political division o f

said board.

(2) No member of the board shall be eligible for any appointive office of the city while

a member of the board, or for one (1) year thereafter. If a member of the board

becomes a candidate for an elective office, he thereby vacates his positi on as a

member of the board.

(3) Any member of the board may be removed by the mayor, for cause, after hearing by

the mayor, and after at least ten (10) days' notice in writing has been given to the

member, which notice shall contain a copy of charges pref erred against him. At the

hearing he may be represented by counsel. The finding of the mayor shall be final

and removal results in vacancy in such office.