A community college or extension of a community college shall be maintained in each of the following locations: Ashland, Carrollton, Cumberland, Elizabethtown, Glasgow, Henderson, Hopkinsville, Fayette County, Madisonville, Owensboro, Paducah, Prestonsburg, Somerset, Blackey-Hazard, Jefferson County and Mason County. The headquarters of the administration of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System shall be maintained in Woodford County. Western Kentucky University may continue to operate a community college in Bowling Green. Additional extension centers may be established by the board of regents for the Kentucky Community and Technical College System with approval of the Council on Postsecondary Education. New community colleges shall require approval of the General Assembly.
Effective: June 20, 2005

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 164.591

  • 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
  • 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

History: Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 29, sec. 6, effective June 20, 2005. — Amended
1997 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 1, sec. 113, effective May 30, 1997. — Amended
1986 Ky. Acts ch. 41, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1986. — Amended 1968 Ky. Acts ch.
17, sec. 1; and ch. 84, sec. 1. — Created 1966 Ky. Acts ch. 6, sec. 7.

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