KRS 67A.070: Ordinance powers -- Conflicts -- Readings -- Effective date -- Publication

requirements -- Adoption by reference to recognized codes.

(1) Urban-county governments may enact and enforce within their territorial limits such

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

Constitution and general statutes of this state now or hereafter enacted, as they shall

deem requisite for the health, education, safety, welfare and convenience of the

inhabitants of the county and for the effective administration of the urban -county

government.

(2) Urban-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 urban -county government

legislative body until it has been read at two (2) separate me etings; provided,

however, that the requirement for 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 a nd

of a certified synopsis of the contents prepared by an attorney licensed to practice

law in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

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

by the chief executive officer of the urba n-county government pursuant to the

provisions of the comprehensive plan of the urban -county government. All

ordinances of the urban -county government shall be published in full or by

publication of the title and a certified synopsis prepared by an attorne y licensed to

practice law in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. A certified synopsis shall include a

brief narrative setting out the main points of the ordinance in a way reasonably

calculated to inform the public in a clear and understandable manner of the meaning

of the ordinance and shall contain the full text of any section that imposes taxes or

fees. The publication shall occur in the daily newspaper which has the largest bona

fide circulation in the county and is published in the publication area.

(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

which identifies the subject matter by title, source and date and incorporates the

adopted provisions by reference without setting them out in full, provided a copy

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

the urban-county government.