2013 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 39D - CONTINUITY OF GOVERNMENT 39D.020 Designation of alternate or substitute places for local government -- Acts valid and binding.
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39D.020 Designation of alternate or substitute places for local government -Acts valid and binding.
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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, the governing body of each county, urban-county, charter county, and
city of this Commonwealth may meet at any place within or without the
territorial limits of that political subdivision, at the direction of the elected chief
executive officer or his or her successor, and shall proceed to establish and
designate by ordinance, resolution, or other manner, alternate or substitute
places as the temporary locations of government where all, or any part, of the
public business may be transacted and conducted during the emergency
situation. The alternate or substitute places may be within or without the
territorial limits of the county, urban-county, charter county, and city, and shall
be within those of the state. If practicable, they shall be the places designated
as the temporary locations of government in the current local emergency
operations plan.
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 Commonwealth shall have and exercise, at that location, all of
the executive, legislative, administrative, and judicial powers and functions
conferred upon that body and officers under state law. The powers and
functions, except judicial, may be exercised in the light of the exigencies of the
emergency situation without regard to or compliance with time-consuming
procedures and formalities prescribed by law and pertaining thereto. All acts of
the body and officers shall be as valid and binding as if performed within the
territorial limits of their county, urban-county, charter county and city.
This section shall control notwithstanding any statutory charter or ordinance
provision to the contrary.
Effective:July 15, 1998
History: Created 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 226, sec. 53, effective July 15, 1998.
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