Kentucky Revised Statutes

Ky. Rev. Stat. § 116.040 (2026)

Repealed, 1972

✓ current as of May 2026
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Catchline at repeal: County board of election commissioners -- Membership -- Qualification -- Vacancies. History: Repealed 1972 Ky. Acts ch. 188, sec. 69, effective December 1, 1972. -- Amended 1962 Ky. Acts ch. 183, sec. 1, effective June 14, 1962. -- Amended 1956 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 5, sec. 2A, effective March 12, 1956. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 1596a- 2.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 6 cases, 1943–1954 · leading case: Adams v. Commonwealth Ex Rel. Buckman, 268 S.W.2d 930 (Ky. Ct. App. 1954).
Adams v. Commonwealth Ex Rel. Buckman, 268 S.W.2d 930 (Ky. Ct. App. 1954). “KRS 116.040. He would be required to pass upon the election of his fellow school board members.”
Fraysure v. Kentucky Unemployment Comp. Comm'n, 202 S.W.2d 377 (Ky. Ct. App. 1947). “And KRS 116.040 says that the State Board of Election Commissioners shall appoint the two members of the County Election Commission from lists of five names that are submitted by the two major political parties, and- the appointments shall be made from such lists.”
Barnes v. Barnes, 241 S.W.2d 993 (Ky. Ct. App. 1951). “These services are not rendered in his capacity as circuit court clerk. The conclusion of the state’s liability in the Shamburger case was largely controlled by the fact that the state was the paymaster and the source of compensation of the Clerk of the Jefferson Circuit Court.”
Simpson v. Hughes, Clerk of Court of Appeals, 187 S.W.2d 440 (Ky. Ct. App. 1945). · cites it 2× “mocratic Executive Committee of Bell County,” and “as citizens and acting for and in behalf of all the law abiding citizens of said County,” and “in behalf of themselves, as constituting the five persons whose names were submitted to * * * the State Board of Election…”
Grauman, Co. Atty. v. Jefferson Co. Fiscal Court, 171 S.W.2d 36 (Ky. Ct. App. 1943). “We agree with the chancellor that should the county board of election commissioners created by KRS 116.040 be unable to agree as to what instructions relative to the use of the voting machines as provided in KRS 125.”
Williamson v. Hughes, Clerk, 199 S.W.2d 125 (Ky. Ct. App. 1947). · cites it 3× “Patterson filed his intervening petition in which he adopted all the averments of the original petition and in addition alleged that in August 1944 he was duly appointed and qualified as Democratic Election Commissioner of Bell County for a term of one year and until his…”
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