179.020 County road engineer or supervisor.
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(1)The county judge/executive of each county, with the consent of the fiscal court, may
employ a county road engineer. Any person so employed shall be either a civil or
highway engineer licensed in accordance with KRS Chapter 322, or a person who
successfully passed an examination for county road engineer under this section prior
to March 24, 1950, and who qualified and served as such.
(2)If the fiscal court does not provide for a county road engineer, the duties of the
county road engineer, except insofar as they may be in conflict with the provisions
of KRS Chapter 322, shall be performed by a county road supervisor, who shall be
employed by the county judge/executive with the consent of the fiscal court, and
who may be removed in the same manner provided for county road engineers. No
person shall be employed as county road supervisor unless he meets the following
requirements:
(a)He has at least three
(3)years' practical road building experience of a nature
satisfactory to examining authorities selected by the Department of Highways
for the Commonwealth of Kentucky; and
(b)He has passed an examination, either oral or written, or both, given by the
examining authorities, and has received a certificate of qualification from the
authorities.
(3)The county surveyor may be employed as county road engineer, if qualified under
subsection
(1)of this section, or as county road supervisor if qualified under
subsection
(2)of this section, and for his services as engineer or supervisor he shall
receive a salary in addition to fees allowed by law for his services as county
surveyor.
(4)When no qualified applicant who is acceptable to the fiscal court is available for
employment, the county judge/executive, with the consent of the fiscal court, may
employ a temporary supervisor not qualified under subsection
(2)of this section for
a period of three
(3)months, but in no event shall a temporary supervisor be used
for more than three
(3)months during any one
(1)term of a county judge/executive.
(5)This section shall not be construed to prohibit the supervision of the construction
and maintenance of roads, without additional compensation, by the county
judge/executive, or by committees of the fiscal court, in counties where the position
of road engineer or road supervisor has not been established by the fiscal court.
(6)Two
(2)or more counties, by a contract approved by order of the fiscal court of
each of the counties, may authorize the county judges/executive of the contracting
counties to employ the same employee as county road engineer or county road
supervisor to serve in all counties so contracting, and for the apportionment of the
amount of his salary to be paid by each county.
(7)The period of employment for any county road engineer or county road supervisor
shall be two
(2)or four
(4)years, in the discretion of the fiscal court, beginning with
the second Tuesday in January of an odd-numbered year. Other terms of
employment, and the salaries of all persons employed under the provisions of this
section, shall be fixed by the fiscal court.
(8)Those persons serving as a county road engineer or supervisor on July 15, 1998,
shall continue to serve in that capacity until the second Tuesday in January of 1999,
at which time the position of county road engineer or supervisor shall be
reappointed for a period of employment as provided in subsection
(7)of this
section.