(1) No appointing authority shall appoint himself or his spouse, or the Governor or his spouse, to a governing board of a postsecondary institution created pursuant to KRS
164.131, 164.321, or 164.821, or to the Council on Postsecondary Education created pursuant to KRS § 164.011.

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 164.0053

  • Board of regents: means the governing board of each comprehensive university and the Kentucky Community and Technical College System. See Kentucky Statutes 164.001
  • Council: means the Council on Postsecondary Education created in KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 164.001
  • governing board: means the board of trustees for the University of Kentucky or the University of Louisville, the board of regents for a comprehensive university, or the board of regents for the Kentucky Community and Technical College System. See Kentucky Statutes 164.001
  • Institution: means a university, college, community college, health technology center, vocational-technical school, technical institute, technical college, technology center, or the Kentucky Community and Technical College System. See Kentucky Statutes 164.001
  • Kentucky Community and Technical College System: means the system composed of public community and technical colleges, including those postsecondary institutions operated by the former Cabinet for Workforce Development and those community colleges in the University of Kentucky Community College System on May 30, 1997. See Kentucky Statutes 164.001
  • Nonteaching personnel: means any employee who is a full-time staff member, excluding a president, chancellor, vice president, academic dean, academic department chair, or administrator. See Kentucky Statutes 164.001
  • Public: means operated with state support. See Kentucky Statutes 164.001

(2) No full-time employee of a public institution of postsecondary education shall be eligible to serve on the Council on Postsecondary Education or on the governing board of another institution of postsecondary education, except the community and technical college faculty and nonteaching personnel serving on the board of regents for the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, and except the faculty member appointed under KRS § 164.011(3).
(3) No postsecondary institution shall award an honorary degree to a sitting governor. (4) All governing board members created pursuant to KRS § 164.131, 164.321, and
164.821 and the members of the Council on Postsecondary Education shall have no
conflict of interest pursuant to KRS § 45A.340, except for compensation paid to faculty, staff, or student members.
Effective: May 30, 1997
History: Amended 1997 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 1, sec. 72, effective May 30,
1997. — Created 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 10, sec. 8, July 1, 1992.