65.8808 Code enforcement board creation -- Joinder with additional cities or
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counties -- Powers -- Classification of violation of ordinance as civil offense.
(1)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.
(2)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 littering, open
dumping of solid waste, or 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.
(3)With the exceptions of criminal littering under KRS 433.753 and littering of public
waters under KRS 433.757, 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.