39D.020 Designation of alternate or substitute places for local government -- Acts

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valid and binding.

(1)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.

(2)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.

(3)This section shall control notwithstanding any statutory charter or ordinance

provision to the contrary.