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67A.070 Ordinance powers -- Conflicts -- Readings -- Effective date -- Publication requirements -- Adoption by reference to recognized codes.

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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, sanitary and other ordinances not in conflict with the <br>Constitution and general statutes of this state now or hereafter enacted, as they shall <br>deem requisite for the health, education, safety, welfare and convenience of the <br>inhabitants of the county and for the effective administration of the urban-county <br>government. (2) Urban-county government ordinances shall be deemed to conflict with general statutes of this state only: <br>(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 meetings; provided, <br>however, that the requirement for a second reading may be suspended by a two-<br>thirds (2/3) vote of the membership of the legislative body. Requirements for <br>reading ordinances or resolutions may be satisfied by public reading of the title and <br>of a certified synopsis of the contents prepared by an attorney licensed to practice <br>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 urban-county government pursuant to the <br>provisions of the comprehensive plan of the urban-county government. Any <br>ordinance or resolution imposing fines, forfeitures, imprisonment, taxes or fees, <br>other than a bond ordinance or resolution, shall be published in full in the daily <br>newspaper which has the largest bona fide circulation in the county and is published <br>in the publication area. The publication requirements for all other ordinances or <br>resolutions, including bond ordinances or resolutions, shall be satisfied by <br>publication in full or by publication of the title and of a certified synopsis of the <br>contents prepared by an attorney licensed to practice law in the Commonwealth of <br>Kentucky. (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 <br>which identifies the subject matter by title, source and date and incorporates the <br>adopted provisions by reference without setting them out in full, provided a copy <br>accompanies the adopting ordinance and is made a part of the permanent records of <br>the urban-county government. Effective: July 13, 1984 <br>History: Amended 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 135, sec. 1, effective July 13, 1984. -- Amended 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 184, sec. 3. -- Created 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 402, sec. 1.