65.8808 Code enforcement board creation -- Joinder with additional cities or counties -- Powers -- Classification of violation of ordinance as civil offense. - Kentucky Statutes

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Page 1 of 1 65.8808 Code enforcement board creation -- Joinder with additional cities or 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 elect to enforce any ordinance of the local
government, including any zoning ordinance or regulation, by classifying a violation
of the ordinance as a civil offense and establishing civil fines which may be
imposed on any person who commits a violation of the ordinance. If a local
government elects to enforce an ordinance as a civil offense, the ordinance, by its
express terms, shall provide:
(a) That a violation of the ordinance is a civil offense;
(b) A maximum civil fine that may be imposed for each violation of the ordinance; and (c) 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) 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 constitute a criminal offense or a moving motor vehicle offense under
any provision of the Kentucky Revised Statutes. Effective: July 12, 2006
History: 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.