441.615 Kentucky Local Correctional Facilities Construction Authority -- Membership -- Corporate character -- Officers -- Staff -- Records. (1) There is created and established within the Finance and Administration Cabinet a Kentucky Local Correctional Facilities Construction Authority, composed of ten (10) members who shall be: (a) The secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet, or his designee; (b) The commissioner of the Department of Corrections, or his designee; (c) The designee of the Kentucky Jailers Association; (d) The designee of the Kentucky County Judges/Executive Association; (e) The designee of the Kentucky Association of Counties; (f) The designee of the Kentucky Magistrates and Commissioners Association; (g) Two (2) citizen members appointed by the Governor; and (h) Two (2) members of the General Assembly appointed by the Governor. (2) The ex officio members shall serve for the term of their respective office. The legislative members of the authority shall serve at the pleasure of the Governor. (3) Citizen members shall begin their terms on August 1, 1982, and shall be appointed for a term of four (4) years; however, in making initial appointments, the Governor shall appoint one (1) member for a term of two (2) years, and one (1) member for a term of three (3) years. (4) Vacancies occurring in the term of any member shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment. (5) The ten (10) members of this authority and their successors are a body corporate and politic constituting a public corporation and governmental agency and instrumentality of the Commonwealth, with perpetual succession and with power in that name to contract and be contracted with, to acquire and convey property, to sue and be sued, to have and use a corporate seal, and to exercise all of the usual powers of corporations not inconsistent with specifically enumerated powers. (6) The members of the authority shall receive no compensation for their services, but shall be entitled to reimbursement for all reasonable expenses necessary and incidental to the performance of their duties and function as members of this authority. (7) The chairman of the authority shall be the secretary of finance. The members of the authority shall elect a vice chairman and secretary from their membership. (8) The secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet shall designate an employee of his cabinet to serve as treasurer of the authority. The treasurer shall give bond to the authority for a faithful accounting for all funds coming into his custody, in the amount the authority may prescribe, drawn upon a surety company qualified to do business in the Commonwealth, the premium to be paid by the Commonwealth. (9) The authority shall establish and maintain an office and the secretary of the authority shall maintain there complete records of the authority's actions and proceedings, as public records open to inspection. The Finance and Administration Cabinet shall provide the funds, staff assistants, facilities, and materials required by the authority in the conduct of its duties and functions. The secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet may require the Department of Corrections to share in the expenses incurred by the Finance and Administration Cabinet in maintaining and operating offices of the authority. Effective: July 14, 1992 History: Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 211, sec. 128, effective July 14, 1992; and ch. 262, sec. 7, effective July 14, 1992. -- Amended 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 415, sec. 4, effective July 13, 1984. -- Created 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 235, sec. 3, effective July 15, 1982. 2018-2020 Budget Reference. See State/Executive Branch Budget, 2018 Ky. Acts ch. 169, Pt. I, H, 5, c, (2) at 1328. Legislative Research Commission Note. (7/14/92). This section was amended by two 1992 Acts. Where those Acts are not in conflict, they have been compiled together. Where a conflict exists, the Act which was last enacted by the General Assembly prevails, pursuant to KRS 446.250.