Constitution of Kentucky (2024 publisher edition) — COUNTIES AND COUNTY SEATS - Section 63 to 65

Publisher edition notice: The publisher's provision inventory includes amendments ratified on or before November 5, 2024. This collection preserves every PDF linked from that inventory; later amendments have not been independently verified.

Section 63

Section 63 Area of counties -- Boundaries -- Creation and abolishment of counties. No new county shall be created by the General Assembly which will reduce the county or counties, or either of them, from which it shall be taken, to less area than four hundred square miles; nor shall any county be formed of less area; nor shall any boundary line thereof pass within less than ten miles of any county seat of the county or counties proposed to be divided. Nothing contained herein shall prevent the General Assembly from abolishing any county. Text as Ratified on: August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891. History: Not yet amended.

-- 1 of 1 --

Section 64

Section 64 Division of county or removal of county seat, election required -- Minimum population of county. No county shall be divided, or have any part stricken therefrom, except in the formation of new counties, without submitting the question to a vote of the people of the county, nor unless the majority of all the legal voters of the county voting on the question shall vote for the same. The county seat of no county as now located, or as may hereafter be located, shall be moved, except upon a vote of two-thirds of those voting; nor shall any new county be established which will reduce any county to less than twelve thousand inhabitants, nor shall any county be created containing a less population. Text as Ratified on: August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891. History: Not yet amended.

-- 1 of 1 --

Section 65

Section 65 Striking territory from county -- Liability for indebtedness. There shall be no territory stricken from any county unless a majority of the voters living in such territory shall petition for such division. But the portion so stricken off and added to another county, or formed in whole or in part into a new county, shall be bound for its proportion of the indebtedness of the county from which it has been taken. Text as Ratified on: August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891. History: Not yet amended.

-- 1 of 1 --