2017 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 65 - GENERAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO COUNTIES, CITIES, AND OTHER LOCAL UNITS .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 utilize a code enforcement board to enforce any
ordinance of the local government, including but not limited to, any zoning or
nuisance ordinance. Each ordinance to be enforced by a code enforcement board, by
its express terms, shall provide that each violation of the ordinance shall constitute a
civil offense. The ordinance shall provide either:
(a) A specific civil fine or fines that may be imposed for each violation of the
ordinance; or
(b) Two (2) separate civil fines as follows:
1.
A maximum civil fine that may be imposed for each offense if the
citation is contested under KRS 65.8825(6); and
2.
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, under any provision of the Kentucky Revised Statutes, constitute a
criminal offense or a moving motor vehicle offense.
Effective: July 15, 2016
History: Amended 2016 Ky. Acts ch. 86, sec. 2, effective July 15, 2016. -- 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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