KRS 67.855: Ordinance powers -- Conflicts.

(1) Charter county governments may enact and enforce within their territorial limits the

tax, licensing, police, sanitary, and other ordinances not in conflict with the

Constitution and general statutes of this state now or hereafter enacted, required for

the health, education, safety, welfare, and convenience of the inhabitants of the

county and for the effective administration of the charter county government. A

charter county government shall not enact any ordinance that imposes any tax or

license, franchise or other fee, or requires a license, franchise, or other permission,

for or with respect to the construction or maintenance of any utility equipment,

facility, or apparatus along, over, under, or across the streets, alleys, or public

grounds of, or the operation of any utility business within, any portion of the area of

the government outside of the larger of the area within the corporate boundaries of

the participating city or cities at the time of creation of the charter county

government, or that part o f the area of the charter county government within which

the government provides at least the level of services provided by any participating

city that existed prior to the creation of the charter county government.

(2) Charter county government ordinances shall be deemed to conflict with general

statutes of this state only:

(a) When the ordinance authorizes that which is expressly prohibited by a general

statute; or

(b) When there is a comprehensive scheme of legislation on the same subject

embodied in a general statute.

(3) No ordinance or resolution shall be considered by the charter county government

legislative body until it has been read at two (2) separate meetings. A second

reading may be suspended by a two -thirds (2/3) vote of the membership of the

legislative body. Requirements for reading ordinances or resolutions may be

satisfied by public reading of the title and summary.

(4) All ordinances and resolutions shall be effective upon passage, unless timely vetoed

by the chief executive officer of the charter county government pursuant to the

provisions of the comprehensive plan of the charter county government. Any

ordinance or resolution imposing fines, forfeitures, imprisonment, taxes, or fees,

other than a bond ordinance or resolution, shall be pub lished in full in a newspaper

qualified under KRS 424.120. The publication requirements for all other ordinances

or resolutions, including bond ordinances or resolutions, shall be satisfied by

publication in full or by publication of the title and summary.

(5) The provisions of any local, statewide, or nationally recognized standard code and

codifications of entire bodies of local legislation may be adopted by ordinance that

identifies the subject matter by title, source, and date and incorporates the adopt ed

provisions by reference without setting them out in full, if a copy accompanies the

adopting ordinance and is made a part of the permanent records of the charter

county government.