KRS 97.550: Local governments may acquire property for parks or playgrounds --

Appointment of park board -- Terms of office.

(1) Cities of any class, counties, charter counties, and urban -county governments may

acquire, by purchase or donation, property for the pu rpose of maintaining public

parks or playgrounds within the jurisdictional limits.

(2) The city legislative body, the fiscal court, or the legislative body of a charter county

or an urban-county government may appoint a park board of not more than eight (8)

persons, whose qualifications shall be prescribed by the city legislative body or

fiscal court, and whose terms of office shall be for two (2) years and until their

successors are appointed and qualified, except that three (3) members of the first

board appointed shall be appointed for terms of only one (1) year. The members of

the board shall not receive any salary for their services. The board shall be a

corporation with perpetual succession, and may, in its corporate name, contract and

be contracted wi th, sue and be sued, have and use a corporate seal, and alter or

renew it at pleasure.