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76.060 Officers and employees -- Legal services -- Effect of compact.

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76.060 Officers and employees -- Legal services -- Effect of compact. (1) The board shall, in July of each year, elect from its members a chairman and a vice chairman, who shall be of different political party affiliation. It shall employ a <br>secretary-treasurer and a chief engineer, neither of whom is a member of the board. <br>The secretary-treasurer and the chief engineer may be removed by the board for <br>cause, after hearing by it and after at least ten (10) days' notice in writing has been <br>given to the secretary-treasurer or chief engineer, as the case may be, which notice <br>shall embrace the charges preferred against him or her. At the hearing he or she may <br>be represented by counsel. The finding of the board is final. The secretary-treasurer <br>and the chief engineer shall each devote his or her entire time and attention <br>exclusively to the services of the board. The board may employ, and remove at <br>pleasure, professional and technical advisers, experts, and other employees, skilled <br>or unskilled, as it deems requisite for the performance of its duties. (2) The board shall require the secretary-treasurer and the chief engineer each to execute a bond and may exact from such of its other officers and employees bonds <br>as it deems expedient. All bonds shall be payable to the district in the sums as the <br>board may fix, with approved corporate surety, and premiums therefor shall be paid <br>by the district. The bonds shall obligate the makers thereof to faithfully perform the <br>duties of their respective offices and positions and to fully account for and pay over <br>all money, property, or other thing of value of the district, which may come to their <br>hands, respectively. The board shall fix the salaries and compensation of the <br>officers and employees it engages, which salaries and compensation, however, shall <br>be in line with that paid by the city and county for similar services. (3) Notwithstanding other provisions of this section, when a city of the first class and a county containing such city have in effect a compact under KRS 79.310 to 79.330, <br>the executive director, secretary-treasurer, and chief engineer shall be appointed by <br>and serve at the joint pleasure of the mayor, and the county judge/executive with the <br>approval of the fiscal court pursuant to KRS 67.040. Upon the establishment of a <br>consolidated local government in a county where a city of the first class and a <br>county containing such city have had in effect a cooperative compact pursuant to <br>KRS 79.310 to 79.330, the executive director, secretary-treasurer, and chief <br>engineer shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the mayor. Effective: July 15, 2002 <br>History: Amended 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 346, sec. 78, effective July 15, 2002. -- Amended 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 77, sec. 11, effective July 15, 1986. -- Amended 1968 Ky. Acts <br>ch. 152, sec. 51. --Amended 1948 Ky. Acts ch. 180, sec. 1. -- Created 1946 Ky. Acts <br>ch. 104, sec. 4.