Hogge v. Rowan County Fiscal Court

Van Sant, Commissioner

Reversing.

We are asked to determine whether the Rowan County Fiscal Court has the authority to appropriate the sum of $3,000 for the purchase of a tract of land which it proposes to convey, for a consideration of $1, to the Commonwealth, to be used as a site for district headquarters of the state police.

The Constitution, section 144 of which merely creates the fiscal court, has left to the General Assembly the right to define the powers and duties of that body. Rentz v. Campbell County, 260 Ky. 242, 84 S. W. 2d 44. It possesses no authority which the Legislature has not…