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97.590 Tax levy -- Requirement of public referendum -- Disbursements --

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Exception.
(1)For the purpose of purchasing and maintaining public parks within the jurisdictional
limits, cities of any class, counties, charter counties, and urban-county governments
may levy taxes not exceeding five cents ($0.05) on each one hundred dollars ($100)
of all taxable property within the corporate limits, subject only to the aggregate
limits on property taxes set forth in the Kentucky Constitution, but not subject to the
recall provisions of KRS 132.017. No city, county, charter county, or urban-county
government shall levy the tax until a public referendum has been conducted in
accordance with the provisions of KRS 83A.120 in the case of a city, county, or
charter county or in accordance with the provisions of KRS 67A.160 in the case of
an urban-county government and has been adopted by the city's, county's, charter
county's, or urban-county government's voters. The public referendum provisions in
this section shall not apply to any city, county, charter county, or urban-county
government that has in effect on July 15, 1998, a tax for park purposes in
accordance with this section or KRS 97.550.
(2)The funds derived from the levy shall be held by the treasurer of the city or the
treasurer of the county in a separate and distinct fund designated the "Park Fund."
The funds shall be paid out by the treasurer only upon order issued by the park
board signed by the secretary and countersigned by the president after the bill for
the withdrawal has been approved by the board, unless a park board has not been
appointed under KRS 97.550 to 97.600, in which case the funds shall be
appropriated by the city legislative body, the fiscal court, or the legislative body of
the charter county government or urban-county government for purposes consistent
with the levy. The treasurer shall not honor in any one
(1)year orders for a greater
sum than the amount apportioned and levied for that year for park and playground
purposes.
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