KRS 424.190: Alternatives to newspaper publication abolished -- Exception --

Information required to be sent to Department for Local Government.

(1) If a statute gives discretion to a public officer or agency or governmental body as to

the method of making an advertisement required by the statute, and if a statute

provides that an advertisement may be made either by posting or by newspaper

publication, the advertisement shall be made by newspaper publication in

accordance with the provisions of this chapter, except as provided in subsection (2)

of this section.

(2) Any city may, when the cost of the newspaper publication exceeds the cost of

postage, supplies, and reproduction for the alternative method of publication, in lieu

of newspaper publication of adver tisement, substitute delivery of a copy of the

advertisement by first class mail to each residence within the publication area. Any

city electing to use the alternative publication methods authorized by this section

shall forward an electronic copy of its audit report or an electronic copy of its

financial statement, whichever is applicable, to the Department for Local

Government in accordance with KRS 91A.040 and 424.220.