Bill > SB106

This bill creates a new section of the Kentucky Revised Statutes (KRS) Chapter 81 to provide an administrative dissolution process for cities and requires the Department of Local Government to implement it. The key provisions are: 1. All cities in Kentucky must file certain information about themselves with the Department of Local Government by September 1, 2022. Cities that have already filed this information after January 1, 2022, are exempt. 2. If a city fails to file the required information by the deadline, the Department will notify the city and give it until December 1, 2022, to comply. If the city still does not respond, the Department will publish a notice stating the city is subject to dissolution proceedings. 3. After January 1, 2023, the Department will hold an administrative hearing to determine if the non-responsive city should be dissolved. Citizens, residents, or creditors of the city can defend against the dissolution. 4. A city will not be dissolved if it is maintaining a government, provides the required information before the deadline, or a successful defense is made. 5. If a city is dissolved, its debts will be satisfied on a pro-rata basis, and any remaining assets will be transferred to the county or counties where the city was located. 6. The dissolution of a city does not prevent it from being incorporated again in the future under the relevant statutes.

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https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb106.html