{"data":{"id":"us-ky/krs-67b.010","jurisdiction":"us-ky","citation":"KRS 67B.010","heading":"Authority to create metropolitan correctional services departments.","body":"The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky determines as a legislative\nfinding of fact that the needs of large urban areas in the field of detention,\ninstitutionalization, and rehabilitation of offenders and public wards are more specialized,\nacute, and distinct than the needs of smaller communities, and require programs\npeculiarly suited to the needs of large, urban areas, and that in order to protect, enhance,\nand maintain the public safety, health, and general welfare, it is necessary that\nconsolidated local governments or fiscal courts of counties containing a city of the first\nclass where the constitutional offices of sheriff and jailer have been consolidated, be\nempowered to create metropolitan correctional services departments which shall be\ndivisions of the consolidated local or county government, and which will be vested with\nthe duty, responsibility, and power to maintain and operate all of the correctional,\ndetention, and rehabilitative facilities of such counties in a professional and co mpetent\nmanner.","path":["KRS Chapter 67B"],"source_url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=23989","current_through":"Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"09/05/2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T20:49:29Z","sha256":"d71bc2e390b8ce8af91794ae5628883cc147ee02605596a4e819e8cdb63e1803","source_id":"us-ky","stale":false,"prev":"us-ky/krs-67a.990","next":"us-ky/krs-67b.020"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}