Nothing in this Charter shall be construed to alter or affect the election, term or compensation of the County Sheriff; nor shall any provision of this Charter, except as otherwise provided in this section, be construed to alter or affect the powers, duties or responsibilities of the County Sheriff as prescribed in the Constitution and laws of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. While the Sheriff shall retain all powers as a peace officer under the aforementioned Constitution and laws, it is the intent of this Charter that the Sheriff shall not be the principal conservator of the peace for the Merged Government. The function of principal conservator of the peace is hereby transferred and assigned to the Chief of Police as provided in Section 6.07 of this Charter. The County Sheriff is hereby recognized as an officer of the Merged Government in the exercise of his functions, having the same relationship to the Merged Government in the performance of said functions as previously existed between the County Sheriff and the County of Fayette. Pursuant to this relationship, all fees, commissions, emoluments and perquisites of the Office of Sheriff shall accrue to the Merged Government as the same formerly accrued to the County of Fayette.
Annotation—Sections 11.05 and 11.07—The sheriff and jailer were merged effective January 3, 1994, by 1990 Ky. Acts Ch. 138.