{"data":{"id":"us-ky/krs-164.0053","jurisdiction":"us-ky","citation":"KRS 164.0053","heading":"Prohibited appointments -- Ineligibility to serve on council or governing","body":"board -- Conflicts of interest.\n(1) No appointing authority shall appoint himself or his spouse, or the Governor or his\nspouse, to a governing board of a postsecondary institution created pursuant to KRS\n164.131, 164.321, or 164.821, or to the Council on Postsecondary Education\ncreated pursuant to KRS 164.011.\n(2) No full -time employee of a public institution of postsecondary education shall be\neligible to serve on the Council o n Postsecondary Education or on the governing\nboard of another institution of postsecondary education, except the community and\ntechnical college faculty and nonteaching personnel serving on the board of regents\nfor the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, and except the faculty\nmember appointed under KRS 164.011(3).\n(3) No postsecondary institution shall award an honorary degree to a sitting governor.\n(4) All governing board members created pursuant to KRS 164.131, 164.321, and\n164.821 and the members of the Council on Postsecondary Education shall have no\nconflict of interest pursuant to KRS 45A.340, except for compensation paid to\nfaculty, staff, or student members.","path":["KRS Chapter 164"],"source_url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=4161","current_through":"Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"09/05/2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T20:51:13Z","sha256":"8292a204f2a2c52bcd04ed437fbefd4da556d08dfd35bec1440e2f647fe312f8","source_id":"us-ky","stale":false,"prev":"us-ky/krs-164.005","next":"us-ky/krs-164.0057"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}