SOMERSET, Ky. (AP) -- Officials have begun conducting a feasibility study on a proposal to merge the governments of Somerset and Pulaski County in south-central Kentucky.
Somerset-Pulaski County United told the Commonwealth Journal that the group has begun the study, which is expected to last about four months.
The newspaper reports that if government officials decided to go through with a merger it would create the third largest city in the state with a population of more than 63,000.
It would also be the first merged government created under a state law passed last year. Lexington and Louisville also have merged governments, although they were created under a different statute.
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