(1) The authority shall establish standards for preliminary approval and final approval of eligible companies and their projects by the promulgation of administrative regulations in accordance with KRS Chapter 13A.
(2) The authority shall consult with the secretary when establishing standards to ensure that standards established pursuant to KRS § 148.855(1) and subsection (1) of this section do not conflict.

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Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 148.857

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Commission: means the State Property and Buildings Commission. See Kentucky Statutes 148.001
  • Company: may extend and be applied to any corporation, company, person, partnership, joint stock company, or association. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010

(3) After the authority’s preliminary approval, an agent designated by the cabinet shall hold at least one (1) public hearing to solicit public comments regarding the designation of an eligible company as a preliminarily approved company. Notice of the public hearing shall be given in accordance with KRS Chapter 424.
(4) The authority shall review the report of the consultant prepared pursuant to KRS
148.855(4), the recommendation of the secretary, the report prepared by the agent documenting all comments, both written and oral, received at the public hearing required by subsection (3) of this section, and other information that has been made available to the authority in order to assist the authority in determining whether the tourism development project will further the purposes of KRS § 148.851 to KRS § 148.860.
(5) The criteria for final approval of eligible companies and tourism development projects shall include but not be limited to the criteria set forth in KRS § 148.855(4). Final approval shall not be granted if it is determined that there is no projected net positive fiscal impact to the Commonwealth.
(6) After a review of the consultant’s report, the recommendation of the secretary, and other information made available to the authority, the authority, by resolution, may grant to the eligible company the status of an approved company and authorize the execution of a tourism development project agreement as provided in KRS § 148.859. The decision reached by the authority shall be final and no appeal shall be granted.
(7) All meetings of the authority shall be held in accordance with KRS § 61.805 to
61.850. The authority may, pursuant to KRS § 61.815, hold closed sessions of its meetings to discuss matters exempt from the open meetings law and pertaining to an eligible company.
Effective: June 26, 2009
History: Amended 2009 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 1, sec. 39, effective June 26,
2009. — Amended 2009 Ky. Acts ch. 16, sec. 29, effective June 25, 2009. — Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 95, sec. 26, effective June 20, 2005. — Repealed, reenacted, and amended 2001 Ky. Acts ch. 1, sec. 5, effective June 21, 2001. — Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 48, sec. 13, effective July 15, 1998; and ch. 238, sec. 3, effective April 1, 1998. — Created 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 335, sec. 4, effective July 15,
1996.
Formerly codified as KRS § 154.29-040.
Legislative Research Commission Note (6/26/2009). 2009 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 1, sec. 39, made changes to subsections (3) and (4) of this section. It is apparent from consultation with the drafter and from context that the second use of the word “company” should not have been deleted from subsection (4), now subsection (3) of that section. The Reviser of Statutes has restored this word under the authority of
KRS § 7.136.
Legislative Research Commission Note (1/25/2009). This is former KRS § 154.29-040 as amended by 2001 Ky. Acts ch. 1, sec. 5, and renumbered by the Reviser of Statutes under KRS § 7.136(1).