{"data":{"id":"us-ky/krs-67.270","jurisdiction":"us-ky","citation":"KRS 67.270","heading":"Debts of old counties -- Separate taxes to pay.","body":"The territory formerly embraced within each of the old counties is hereby made into a\nseparate special taxing district with power to levy and collect taxes, and the separate debt\nof each county shall be a first lien on the territory formerly embraced withi n that county.\nThe fiscal court of the new county shall fix the rate of tax levy for each of the two (2)\nspecial taxing districts, and the property within each shall be assessed and the taxes\ncollected by the same county officers of the new county, and in the same manner that the\nlaw provides for the assessment of property and the collection of taxes by counties. The\nmoney collected as taxes for each of the special taxing districts shall be kept separate and\nshall be used only in payment of the debts of the  old county that formerly embraced the\nterritory of that specific taxing district.","path":["KRS Chapter 67"],"source_url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=23718","current_through":"Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"09/05/2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T20:49:25Z","sha256":"7ccf4280710f00867059957d30609c1b141bf678edf1676781200a69adde3ccb","source_id":"us-ky","stale":false,"prev":"us-ky/krs-67.260","next":"us-ky/krs-67.280"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}