KRS 83.500: Ordinances -- How passed -- Amendment -- Repeal -- Veto.

(1) No ordinance shall embrace more than one (1) subject, and that subject shall be

expressed in its title.

(2) No ordinance shall be passed at the meeting of the board of aldermen at which it is

introduced, nor shall it be passed at any succeeding meeting until it has been read in

full at that meeting and free discussion allowed thereon. Any ordinance may be

amended or repealed by another ordinance.

(3) Every ordinance or resolution, except a resolution to adjourn, that has passed the

board of aldermen shall i mmediately be presented to the mayor for his approval or

disapproval. The mayor may disapprove any item or items of an appropriation

measure; the parts approved shall be in force and the item or items disapproved

shall be void, unless repassed in the same manner required for passage of

ordinances over the mayor's veto. If the mayor approves the ordinance or resolution,

he shall sign it and it shall then be in force. If he disapproves the ordinance or

resolution, or any item of an appropriation measure, he s hall return it, with his

objections, to the board of aldermen, which shall enter his objections in full upon its

journal and proceed at its next or at its second regular meeting thereafter to consider

it. If, after such reconsideration, two -thirds (2/3) of the members of the board of

aldermen agree to its passage, the ordinance shall be in force, but in such cases the

votes shall be taken by yeas and nays and recorded in the journal.

(4) If the mayor does not sign an ordinance or resolution presented to him, and does not

return it on or before the day on which the board of aldermen holds its regular

meeting next after the meeting at which the ordinance or resolution was passed, and

three (3) days have intervened between the presentation to the mayor and the

meeting, the ordinance or resolution shall be in force as if he had signed it.