67.922 Rights, powers, privileges, immunities, and responsibilities of unified local
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government -- Continuance of county and city laws -- Enactment and
enforcement of ordinances.
(1)A unified local government may exercise the constitutional and statutory rights,
powers, privileges, immunities, and responsibilities of counties and of cities of the
first class or home rule class within the unified local government:
(a)In effect on the date the unified local government becomes effective;
(b)Which may subsequently be authorized for or imposed upon counties and
cities of that class; and
(c)Which may be authorized for or imposed upon unified local governments.
(2)If a city of the first class exists within the county on the date that the unified local
government becomes effective and that city is part of the unified local government,
the unified local government may also exercise the constitutional and statutory
rights, powers, privileges, immunities, and responsibilities of a city of the first class
in addition to its authority to exercise the rights, powers, privileges, immunities, and
responsibilities granted under subsection
(1)of this section.
(3)A unified local government shall be accorded the same sovereign immunity granted
counties, their agencies, officers, and employees.
(4)All ordinances of a unified local government shall be enacted and enforced pursuant
to KRS 83A.060 and 83A.065.