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39D.020 Designation of alternate or substitute places for local government -- Acts valid and binding.

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Page 1 of 1 39D.020 Designation of alternate or substitute places for local government -- Acts valid and binding. (1) When, during a state of emergency, it becomes imprudent, inexpedient, or impossible to conduct the affairs of local government at the regular or usual places, <br>the governing body of each county, urban-county, charter county, and city of this <br>Commonwealth may meet at any place within or without the territorial limits of that <br>political subdivision, at the direction of the elected chief executive officer or his or <br>her successor, and shall proceed to establish and designate by ordinance, resolution, <br>or other manner, alternate or substitute places as the temporary locations of <br>government where all, or any part, of the public business may be transacted and <br>conducted during the emergency situation. The alternate or substitute places may be <br>within or without the territorial limits of the county, urban-county, charter county, <br>and city, and shall be within those of the state. If practicable, they shall be the places <br>designated as the temporary locations of government in the current local emergency <br>operations plan. (2) While the public business is being conducted at a temporary location, the governing body and other officers of a county, urban-county, charter county, and city of this <br>Commonwealth shall have and exercise, at that location, all of the executive, <br>legislative, administrative, and judicial powers and functions conferred upon that <br>body and officers under state law. The powers and functions, except judicial, may <br>be exercised in the light of the exigencies of the emergency situation without regard <br>to or compliance with time-consuming procedures and formalities prescribed by law <br>and pertaining thereto. All acts of the body and officers shall be as valid and <br>binding as if performed within the territorial limits of their county, urban-county, <br>charter county and city. (3) This section shall control notwithstanding any statutory charter or ordinance provision to the contrary. Effective: July 15, 1998 <br>History: Created 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 226, sec. 53, effective July 15, 1998.