KRS 107.040: Public hearing -- Record -- Owners of affected property to be heard --

Written statements -- Vote -- Results to be included in report.

A public hearing shall be held at the time and place designated in the first ordinance. Any

person qualifying under the provisions of KRS 107.030 may preside and conduct such

hearing. Such presiding person, or any person whom he or she may designate, shall make

reasonable notes or minutes of the proceedings, and the same shall be submitted in

writing to a subsequent regularly scheduled meeting of the governing body. Any owner of

property intended to be benefited by the proposed improvement project may be heard at

such public hearing, in person or by a representative. Any such owner may submit to the

person presiding, or to the designated clerk, if one (1) be designated, a written instrument

in which such owner is identified by name, address, and designation of the property

owned, and containing a statement of any reason for advocating, or objecting to, any of

the aspects of the proposed improvement project as set forth in subsection (1), (2), (3), or

(4) of KRS 107.030, and such written instruments shall be attached to, or included in, the

written report of the hearing. Whether or not any such written instruments are submi tted,

the person presiding at such hearing may require those in attendance to identify

themselves as owners of property to be benefited, or otherwise, and may call for a vote of

such identified owners, by secret ballot or show -of-hands, on any pertinent co ntroversial

matter, and the results thereof shall be included in the subsequent written report to the

governing body. The presiding officer may impose reasonable rules upon the conduct of

the public hearing. Reports of local health agencies, summaries, en gineering and health

reports and other informative data may be made a part of the public hearing. The hearing

may be adjourned to convene again, and from time to time, either at a time and place

announced at the hearing, or any adjourned session, or upon public notice of such time

and place, to be given in such manner as the person presiding may announce prior to the

adjournment. If no owners of property to be benefited by the proposed project appear at

such hearing, or if no substantial controversy develo ps at such hearing, regarding any of

the matters enumerated in subsection (1), (2), (3), or (4) of KRS 107.030, the hearing may

be adjourned sine die by the person presiding, and such facts shall be set forth in the

written report to the governing body.