The mayor of a consolidated local government or a fiscal court shall, at or subsequent to the creation or maintenance of a metropolitan correctional services department, appoint and employ an executive director of the metropolitan correctional services department who shall be well-educated, trained, and experienced in the administration of correctional and rehabilitative public facilities, and who, together with assistant directors, to be appointed and employed by the mayor or fiscal court, shall have full and complete management of the department and all of its operations. The executive director of the department, together with all assistant directors, shall be directly appointed by, and shall serve at the pleasure of, the mayor or fiscal court, and may be removed and replaced upon order of the mayor or fiscal court.
Effective: July 15, 2002

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 67B.040

  • Consolidated local government: means a local government established pursuant to
    KRS Chapter 67C. See Kentucky Statutes 67B.020
  • Department: means a metropolitan correctional services department created or maintained by a consolidated local government or the fiscal court of a county containing a city of the first class, where the constitutional offices of sheriff and jailer have been consolidated, pursuant to this chapter. See Kentucky Statutes 67B.020
  • Directors: when applied to corporations, includes managers or trustees. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Fiscal court: means the county judge/executive and justices of the peace of a county, or the county judge/executive and three (3) county commissioners elected pursuant to KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 67B.020

History: Amended 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 346, sec. 49, effective July 15, 2002. — Created
1972 Ky. Acts ch. 100, sec. 4.

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