2013 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 65 - GENERAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO COUNTIES, CITIES, AND OTHER LOCAL UNITS 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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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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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 civil fines as a method of enforcing a local government ordinance when
a violation of the ordinance has been classified as a civil offense in accordance
with this section. Any local government may expand its code enforcement
board to include additional cities or counties within its jurisdiction for performing
the function for which the code enforcement board was organized.
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 government, including any zoning ordinance or regulation, by
classifying a violation of the ordinance as a civil offense and establishing civil
fines which may be imposed on any person who commits a violation of the
ordinance. If a local government elects to enforce an ordinance as a civil
offense, the ordinance, by its express terms, shall provide:
(a) That a violation of the ordinance is a civil offense;
(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 the citation.
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 would also constitute a criminal offense or a moving motor vehicle
offense under any provision of the Kentucky Revised Statutes.
Effective:July 12, 2006
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 ch. 177, sec. 3, effective July 15, 1996.
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