{"data":{"id":"us-ky/krs-99.190","jurisdiction":"us-ky","citation":"KRS 99.190","heading":"Proceedings in Circuit Court to compel compliance with law by","body":"redevelopment corporations.\nWhenever a redevelopment corporation shall not have obtained the certificates of\napproval of its development plan required by KRS 99.040 to 99.060 within twelve ( 12)\nmonths of the date upon which it became a redevelopment corporation, or shall not have\nsubstantially complied with its development plan within the time limits for the\ncompletion of each stage thereof as therein stated, reasonable delays caused by\nunforeseen difficulties excepted, or shall do, permit to be done or fail or omit to do\nanything contrary to or required of it by, as the case may be, KRS 99.010 to 99.310, or\nshall be about so to do, permit to be done or fail or omit to have done, as the case m ay be,\nthen any such fact may be certified by the planning commission or the supervising\nagency, whichever shall have supervision thereof, to the chief legal officer of the city,\nwho may thereupon commence a proceeding in the Circuit Court of the county in  which\nsuch city is located in the city's name for the purpose of having such action, failure or\nomission, or threatened action, failure or omission, established by order of the court for\nthe purpose stated in KRS 99.120, or stopped, prevented or otherwise  rectified by\nmandamus, injunction or otherwise. Such proceedings shall be commenced by a petition\nto the Circuit Court alleging the violation complained of and praying for appropriate\nrelief. It shall thereupon be the duty of the court to specify the time , not exceeding twenty\n(20) days after service of a copy of the petition, within which the redevelopment\ncorporation complained of must answer the petition. The court shall, immediately after a\ndefault in answering or after answer, as the case may be, inqu ire into the facts and\ncircumstances in such manner as the court shall direct without other or formal\nproceedings, and without respect to any technical requirements. Such other persons or\ncorporations as it shall seem to the court necessary or proper to jo in as parties in order to\nmake its orders of judgment effective may be joined as parties. The final judgment or\norder in any such action or proceeding shall dismiss the action or proceeding or establish\nthe failure complained of or direct that a mandamus order, or an injunction, or both, issue,\nor grant such other relief as the court may deem appropriate.","path":["KRS Chapter 99"],"source_url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=26519","current_through":"Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"09/05/2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T20:50:01Z","sha256":"5467d6101d971895b0d32dd47538846076179dcbf4231f31ba6690d1e58e8caf","source_id":"us-ky","stale":false,"prev":"us-ky/krs-99.180","next":"us-ky/krs-99.200"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}