75A.130 Dissolution of consolidated emergency services district.
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The method for dissolving a consolidated emergency services district shall be in accordance with the following:
(a)Persons desiring to dissolve a consolidated emergency services district shall
present a petition to the fiscal court clerk and to each member of the fiscal
court, meeting the criteria of KRS 65.184, and signed by a number of
registered voters equal to or greater than twenty-five percent (25%) of an
average of the voters living in the proposed taxing district and voting in the
last four
(4)general elections. At the time of its submission to fiscal court,
each petition shall be a form showing justification or information as set out in
this paragraph:
1. Justification for the dissolution of a consolidated emergency services
district, including but not limited to the location of nearby governmental
and nongovernmental providers of like services; and
2. Any additional information, which bears on the necessity of dissolution
of a consolidated emergency services district.
(b)A majority of the members of a fiscal court may vote to dissolve a
consolidated emergency services district.
(2)The fiscal court clerk shall notify all planning commissions, cities, and area
development districts within whose jurisdiction the consolidated emergency
services district is located and any state agencies required by law to be notified of
the proposal to dissolve the consolidated emergency services district.
(3)The fiscal court clerk shall schedule a hearing on the proposal for no earlier than
thirty
(30)nor later than ninety
(90)days following receipt of the petition, and shall,
in accordance with KRS Chapter 424, publish notice of the time and place of the
public hearing.
(4)At the public hearing, the fiscal court shall take testimony of interested parties and
solicit the recommendations of any planning commission, area development district,
or state agency meeting the criteria of subsection
(2)of this section.
(5)The fiscal court may extend the hearing, from time-to-time, for ninety
(90)days
from the date of the initial hearing and shall render a decision within thirty
days of the final adjournment of the hearing.
(6)Following the hearing, the fiscal court shall set forth its written findings of fact and
shall approve or disapprove the dissolution of the consolidated emergency services
district.
(7)The dissolution of the consolidated emergency services district shall be of legal
effect only upon the adoption of an ordinance, in accordance with KRS 67.075 and
67.077, dissolving the consolidated emergency services district, and compliance
with the requirements of KRS 65.005.
(8)A certified copy of the ordinance dissolving the consolidated emergency services
district shall be filed with the county clerk.
(9)The territory of the former consolidated emergency services district shall become special taxing districts until the indebtedness has been relieved.