Kentucky Revised Statutes Title IX. Counties, Cities, and Other Local Units § 67A.050.Designation for purposes of state or federal laws or administrative regulations

(a) The urban-county shall be deemed a county and shall also be deemed to contain incorporated municipalities of the number and classes which existed in the county on the day prior to the date the urban-county government became effective; and the entire geographic area and population of the urban-county shall be considered in calculating and determining the distribution basis for state or federal statutory entitlements, gifts, grants-in-aid, loans, or other forms of governmental assistance;

(b) The urban-county government is empowered to designate to the appropriate state or federal agency those geographic areas, portions of roads, segments of population, or combinations thereof which shall be deemed to constitute rural or urban areas, roads or population, notwithstanding whether such areas, roads or population are within incorporated municipalities.