Kentucky Revised Statutes

Ky. Rev. Stat. § 80.070 (2026)

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(1) An authority may employ technical experts and attorneys, and any other employees that it deems necessary. The authority shall fix the compensation of its employees. The legislative body of a city may prescribe limitations to the compensation of employees of the city authority and may prescribe whether or not an employee shall devote his entire time to his duties as an employee of the authority. (2) In fixing the compensation of its employees, an authority may, but is not required to, utilize an incentive compensation arrangement whereby the employee may receive, subject to appropriate limits, additional compensation measured by the extent of the achievement by the authority of specified operating goals, which goals shall be established by the authority prior to the commencement of work by the employee on the matter with respect to which the goals were set. Effective: July 13, 1984 History: Amended 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 226, sec. 2, effective July 13, 1984. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 927a-2, 2741x-2.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases, 1985–2005 · leading case: Salisbury v. Hous. Auth. of City of Newport, 615 F. Supp. 1433 (E.D. Ky. 1985).

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Salisbury v. Hous. Auth. of City of Newport, 615 F. Supp. 1433 (E.D. Ky. 1985). · cites it 3× “070 would permit the NHA to appoint an independent hearing examiner to hear a case and would not require the application of the rule of necessity.”

Louisville Metro Hous. Auth. v. Burns Ex Rel. Burns, 198 S.W.3d 147 (Ky. Ct. App. 2005). “” KRS 80.070 allows the city legislative body to “prescribe limitations to the compensation of employees of the city authority and [it] may prescribe whether or not an employee shall devote his entire time to his duties as an employee of the authority.”

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