Kentucky Revised Statutes

Ky. Rev. Stat. § 61.220 (2026)

Fiscal court members and mayors or council members of a consolidated

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local government not to be interested in public improvements or claims against county -- Penalty.

(1) Any member of the fiscal court, or any mayor or council member of a consolidated local government, who becomes interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract for work to be done or material to be furnished for the county or any district thereof, or who becomes interested in any claim against the county shall be fined not less than five hundred dollars ($500) nor more than five thousand dollars ($5,000) for each offense.

(2) If any county judge/executive, justice of the peace, or mayor or council member of a consolidated local government is, by the same act, guilty of a violation of this section and KRS 61.210, he shall be punished as provided in KRS 61.210. Effective: July 15, 2002 History: Amended 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 346, sec. 15, effective July 15, 2002. -- Amended 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 321, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1994. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 1844.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases, 1956–1958 · leading case: Trimble Cnty. ex rel. Shaver v. Moore, 312 S.W.2d 623 (Ky. Ct. App. 1958).

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Trimble Cnty. ex rel. Shaver v. Moore, 312 S.W.2d 623 (Ky. Ct. App. 1958). “, supra (now KRS 61.220). The purpose of the amendment was to remove that disability; that is, the the disability to contract with themselves in this one particular, and to expressly allow them to do so.”

Lemon v. Fiscal Court of Casey Cnty., 291 S.W.2d 572 (Ky. Ct. App. 1956). · cites it 2× “It is further averred in the complaint the fiscal court had no legal right or authority to employ Allison while he was a member of that body and pay him for his services as dog warden, and that the fiscal court’s action in so doing contravened KRS 61.220, which forbids a member…”

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