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65.8808 Code enforcement board creation -- Joinder with additional cities or counties -- Powers -- Classification of violation of ordinance as civil offense.

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Page 1 of 1 65.8808 Code enforcement board creation -- Joinder with additional cities or counties -- Powers -- Classification of violation of ordinance as civil offense. (1) The legislative body of a local government may, by ordinance, create a code enforcement board which shall have the power to issue remedial orders and impose <br>civil fines as a method of enforcing a local government ordinance when a violation <br>of the ordinance has been classified as a civil offense in accordance with this <br>section. Any local government may expand its code enforcement board to include <br>additional cities or counties within its jurisdiction for performing the function for <br>which the code enforcement board was organized. (2) Subject to the limitations set forth in subsection (3) of this section, the legislative body of a local government may elect to enforce any ordinance of the local <br>government, including any zoning ordinance or regulation, by classifying a violation <br>of the ordinance as a civil offense and establishing civil fines which may be <br>imposed on any person who commits a violation of the ordinance. If a local <br>government elects to enforce an ordinance as a civil offense, the ordinance, by its <br>express terms, shall provide: <br>(a) That a violation of the ordinance is a civil offense; <br>(b) A maximum civil fine that may be imposed for each violation of the ordinance; and (c) A specific civil fine of less than the maximum civil fine that will be imposed for each offense if the person who has committed the offense does not contest <br>the citation. (3) No legislative body of a local government shall classify the violation of an ordinance as a civil offense if the same conduct that is regulated by the ordinance <br>would also constitute a criminal offense or a moving motor vehicle offense under <br>any provision of the Kentucky Revised Statutes. Effective: July 12, 2006 <br>History: Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 12, sec. 2, effective July 12, 2006. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 364, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1998. -- Created 1996 Ky. Acts <br>ch. 177, sec. 3, effective July 15, 1996.