2011 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 65 GENERAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO COUNTIES, CITIES, AND OTHER LOCAL UNITS 65.8805 Definitions for KRS 65.8801 to 65.8839.
KY Rev Stat § 65.8805 (1996 through Reg Sess) What's This?
65.8805 Definitions for KRS 65.8801 to 65.8839.
As used in KRS 65.8801 to 65.8839, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Local government" means any county, any municipal corporation of any class
incorporated in the Commonwealth, any urban-county government organized and
governed under KRS Chapter 67A, and any charter county government organized
and governed under KRS Chapter 67.
(2) "Code enforcement board" means an administrative body created and acting under
the authority of KRS 65.8801 to 65.8839.
(3) "Joint code enforcement board" means two (2) or more local governments that have
entered into an interlocal agreement in accordance with KRS 65.210 to 65.300 to
perform and enforce the duties of a code enforcement board as provided in KRS
65.8801 to 65.8839.
(4) "Code enforcement officer" means a city police officer, safety officer, citation
officer, county police officer, sheriff, deputy sheriff, university police officer,
airport police officer, or other public law enforcement officer with the authority to
issue a citation.
(5) "Ordinance" means an official action of a local government body, which is a
regulation of a general and permanent nature and enforceable as a local law and
shall include any provision of a code of ordinances adopted by a local government
which embodies all or part of an ordinance.
Effective: July 12, 2006
History: Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 12, sec. 1, effective July 12, 2006. -- Created
1996 Ky. Acts ch. 177, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1996.
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