The comprehensive plan for merging city and county governments into an urban -county government under this chapter may provide for the corporate dissolution of incorporate d municipalities and special districts within the county whereupon: (1) For purposes of all state and federal licensing and regulatory laws, statutory entitlement, gifts, grants -in-aid, governmental loan, or other governmental assistance under 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 gover nment 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 rur al or urban areas, roads or population, notwithstanding whether such areas, roads or population are within incorporated municipalities. (2) The chief executive officer of the urban -county government shall determine and make the designations herein followin g a public hearing thereon. The urban -county government shall fix the time and place of the hearing which shall be advertised pursuant to KRS Chapter 424.
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