KRS 39B.060: Emergency operations plan.

(1) The city or county, joint county when counties are acting jointly under KRS

39B.010, or city/county emergency operations plan developed pursuant to the

provisions of KRS Chapters 39A to 39F shall include adequate provisions or

procedures to assess, mitigate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from all disaster

or emergency incidents contemplated by KRS 39A.010, 39A.020, or 39A.030 and

shall provide for all functions contemplated by these sections.

(2) The local emergency operations plan shall be submitted by the local director to the

county judge/executive, or chief executive officers of each participating county

when counties are acting jointly under KRS 39B.010, mayor, or chief executive of

other local governments immediately following each regular elect ion for these

offices, for approval and adoption by the local chief executives through issuance of

an executive order pursuant to the provisions of KRS Chapters 39A to 39F.

(3) In the event of a conflict between a city emergency operations plan and a count y

emergency operations plan and decisions made thereunder:

(a) The decision made pursuant to the county plan shall prevail if the incident, its

consequences, or the threat thereof, extend beyond the boundaries of the city;

(b) The decision made pursuant to the city plan shall prevail if the incident, its

consequences, or the threat of the incident, do not extend beyond the

boundaries of the city; and

(c) The same precedence shall govern plans of urban -counties and charter

counties.

(4) The joint plan established by counties acting jointly pursuant to KRS 39B.010 shall

incorporate a joint decision-making process whereby the chief executive officers, or

their designees, use the integrated emergency management system and the unified

incident command system set out in KRS 39A.230 to deal with any incident.