Prohibited appointments -- Ineligibility to serve on council or governing board -- Conflicts of interest
KRS 164.0053
in effect164.0053. Prohibited appointments -- Ineligibility to serve on council or governing board -- Conflicts of interest
(1) No appointing authority shall appoint himself or his spouse, or the Governor or his spouse, to a governing board of a postsecondary institution created pursuant to KRS 164.131, 164.321, or 164.821, or to the Council on Postsecondary Education created pursuant to KRS 164.011.
(2) No full-time employee of a public institution of postsecondary education shall be eligible to serve on the Council on Postsecondary Education or on the governing board of another institution of postsecondary education, except the community and technical college faculty and nonteaching personnel serving on the board of regents for the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, and except the faculty member appointed under KRS 164.011(3).
(3) No postsecondary institution shall award an honorary degree to a sitting governor.
(4) All governing board members created pursuant to KRS 164.131, 164.321, and 164.821 and the members of the Council on Postsecondary Education shall have no conflict of interest pursuant to KRS 45A.340, except for compensation paid to faculty, staff, or student members.
Effective: May 30, 1997
History: Amended 1997 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 1, sec. 72, effective May 30, 1997. -- Created 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 10, sec. 8, July 1, 1992.
Source: Kentucky Legislative Research Commission (legislature.ky.gov)URL: https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=4161Fetched: 10/20/2026