(1) Before a planning unit may engage in planning operations, a planning commission shall be appointed for the unit in conformance with an adopted agreement.
(2) A planning commission shall consist of at least five (5), but not more than twenty

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 100.133

  • Citizen member: means any member of the planning commission or board of
    adjustment who is not an elected or appointed official or employee of the city,
    county, or consolidated local government. See Kentucky Statutes 100.111
  • City: includes town. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Commission: means planning commission. See Kentucky Statutes 100.111
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Subdivision: means the division of a parcel of land into three (3) or more lots or parcels except in a county containing a city with a population equal to or greater than eight thousand (8,000) based upon the most recent federal decennial census or in an urban-county government or consolidated local government where a subdivision means the division of a parcel of land into two (2) or more lots or parcels. See Kentucky Statutes 100.111
  • Unit: means planning unit. See Kentucky Statutes 100.111

(20) members.
(3) The Governor shall have the privilege of appointing a member to the commission to which the capital city belongs in addition to the number of members specified for that planning commission.
(4) Where extraterritorial jurisdiction is exercised for subdivision regulations or other regulations, the county judge/executive of each affected county may appoint a member to the planning commission of the planning unit exercising such jurisdiction in addition to the number of members specified for that planning commission.
(5) At least two-thirds (2/3) of the members of every planning commission shall be citizen members.
(6) A regional planning commission shall include at least one (1) citizen member from each joint planning unit who is also a member of the joint planning commission.
(7) If one (1) city only joins with one (1) county, then each shall have equal representation.
(8) Except as provided in KRS § 100.137, at least one (1) of the county representatives of the planning commission of a joint planning unit containing a county with an unincorporated area population exceeding one thousand (1,000) persons shall be a resident of the unincorporated area of that county.
(9) Whenever this chapter requires a city without its consent to belong to a joint planning unit, then KRS § 100.137 shall apply.
Effective: July 14, 1992
History: Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 268, sec. 1, effective July 14, 1992. — Amended
1986 Ky. Acts ch. 141, sec. 4, effective July 15, 1986. — Amended 1984 Ky. Acts ch.
153, sec. 1, effective July 13, 1984. — Created 1966 Ky. Acts ch. 172, secs. 8 and 9.