KRS 96A.340: Publication of resolution or ordinance -- Framing of proposal -- Majority

required -- Status of voted levies.

(1) The resolution or ordinance of each public body determining that a proposition for

the establishment of a mass transportation program be submitted to the electorate of

such public body or to the electorate of the transit area of such transit authority, as

the case may be, shall in each case be published in the newspaper having the largest

bona fide circulation in the area affected and KRS 4 24.120 notwithstanding, in the

following manner:

(a) The advertisement shall contain a notification that there is to be a referendum,

the subject of which is to be the proposed sales tax.

(b) The advertisement shall contain the amount of the proposed sales tax and the

subject(s) thereof.

(c) The advertisement shall include the manner in which the tax shall be levied.

(d) The advertisement shall include the manner in which and purposes for which

revenues resulting from the tax levy shall be spent.

(e) The advertisement shall be no less than one-quarter (1/4) page in size, and

(f) Shall be published at least once weekly for the nine (9) weeks immediately

prior to the date of the referendum,

(g) And daily for the week immediately prior to the date of the public ation in

those papers with daily publication.

(h) The advertisement shall begin with the word "Tax."

Thereafter such public body or public bodies shall cause the proposition to be

prepared for submission to the electorate of either such public bodies or s uch transit

area of the transit authority, as the case may be, at an election to be called and held

for such purpose. Such election may be held upon any date stipulated by the public

body or public bodies and shall be held pursuant to notice as prescribed in KRS

424.130. Said election may, but need not, be held in conjunction with a regularly

scheduled November election or a primary election as otherwise provided by law.

The proposal to be submitted to the electorate of such public body or public bodies,

or transit area of such transit authority, as the case may be, shall be so framed that

any voter who wishes to vote in favor of the mass transportation program and the

financing source therefor may signify his approval by voting "yes," and any voter

who wish es to vote against the mass transportation program and the funding

therefor may do so by voting "no."

(2) In the event any such mass transportation program proposal is submitted to the

electorate of any individual public body, such proposition and the sour ce of funding

therefor shall be approved if a majority of those voting on the proposal within the

public body shall vote "yes."

(3) In the event any such mass transportation program proposal is submitted to the

electorate of any transit area of any such tr ansit authority by simultaneous

submission by all public bodies who are at the time of such submission members of

such transit authority, such proposition and the source of funding therefor shall be

approved if a majority of those voting on the proposal within the transit area of such

transit authority shall vote "yes."

(4) Any additional voted levies of ad valorem taxes approved by electorates pursuant to

KRS 96A.310 to 96A.370, shall in the case of individual public bodies, be added to

and constitute lega l tax levies of such individual public bodies within the meaning

of the Constitution of Kentucky, and shall, in the case of votes taken in transit areas

of transit authorities, constitute legal tax levies of each and every individual public

body which is a member of any such transit authority within the meaning of the

Constitution of Kentucky.