Kentucky Revised Statutes Title IX. Counties, Cities, and Other Local Units § 67.060.County commissioners; election, term, qualifications

(1) If a majority of the votes cast at an election held under KRS 67.050 are in favor of the fiscal court being composed of the county judge/executive and three (3) commissioners, the county judge/executive shall, no later than the first Monday in January in the year of the regular election for county officers, divide the county into three (3) districts as nearly equal in population as practicable, and shall establish the boundary lines of each of the three (3) commissioner districts so that each district is an unbroken area and not split or divided by another commissioner district. At the next regular election for county officers, and every four (4) years thereafter, there shall be elected by the voters of the entire county three (3) commissioners, one (1) from each district who, with the county judge/executive, shall constitute the fiscal court.

(3) Persons seeking the nomination of a political party as candidate for the office of county commissioner shall, where a primary election is required for such political party, be voted upon exclusively by the eligible voters of the district in which the person resides and seeks to represent. Persons seeking the nomination of a minor political party persons who file as independent candidates or persons seeking the nomination in counties containing a city with a population equal to or greater than eight thousand (8,000) as determined by the most recent federal decennial census but not a city of the first class shall not be subject to the provisions of this paragraph. They shall be nominated by the voters of the entire county.

(4) To be eligible for election as a commissioner representing one of the three (3) districts, a person shall have been a bona fide resident of the district he proposes to represent for at least one (1) year immediately preceding the election, and, upon election, shall continue to reside within the district he was elected to represent for the duration of his term of office, under penalty of forfeiture of the office.

(5) Commissioners elected under this section shall take the oath of office and enter upon the discharge of their duties on the first Monday in January after their election, and shall serve for terms of four (4) years and until their successors are elected and qualify, or until the effective date of a return to a fiscal court composed of justices of the peace and the county judge/executive.

(6) No person is eligible to be a county commissioner unless he is at least twenty-four (24) years of age and has been for two (2) years next preceding his election a resident of the county and a citizen of Kentucky.