Kentucky Statutes 83.500 – Ordinances — How passed — Amendment — Repeal — Veto
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(1) No ordinance shall embrace more than one (1) subject, and that subject shall be expressed in its title.
(2) No ordinance shall be passed at the meeting of the board of aldermen at which it is introduced, nor shall it be passed at any succeeding meeting until it has been read in full at that meeting and free discussion allowed thereon. Any ordinance may be amended or repealed by another ordinance.
(3) Every ordinance or resolution, except a resolution to adjourn, that has passed the board of aldermen shall immediately be presented to the mayor for his approval or disapproval. The mayor may disapprove any item or items of an appropriation measure; the parts approved shall be in force and the item or items disapproved shall be void, unless repassed in the same manner required for passage of ordinances over the mayor’s veto. If the mayor approves the ordinance or resolution, he shall sign it and it shall then be in force. If he disapproves the ordinance or resolution, or any item of an appropriation measure, he shall return it, with his objections, to the board of aldermen, which shall enter his objections in full upon its journal and proceed at its next or at its second regular meeting thereafter to consider it. If, after such reconsideration, two-thirds (2/3) of the members of the board of aldermen agree to its passage, the ordinance shall be in force, but in such cases the votes shall be taken by yeas and nays and recorded in the journal.
(4) If the mayor does not sign an ordinance or resolution presented to him, and does not return it on or before the day on which the board of aldermen holds its regular meeting next after the meeting at which the ordinance or resolution was passed, and three (3) days have intervened between the presentation to the mayor and the meeting, the ordinance or resolution shall be in force as if he had signed it.
History: Created 1972 Ky. Acts ch. 243, sec. 10.
(2) No ordinance shall be passed at the meeting of the board of aldermen at which it is introduced, nor shall it be passed at any succeeding meeting until it has been read in full at that meeting and free discussion allowed thereon. Any ordinance may be amended or repealed by another ordinance.
Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 83.500
- Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Appropriation: means an authorization by the General Assembly to expend, from public funds, a sum of money not in excess of the sum specified, for the purposes specified in the authorization and under the procedure prescribed in KRS Chapter 48. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
- Veto: The procedure established under the Constitution by which the President/Governor refuses to approve a bill or joint resolution and thus prevents its enactment into law. A regular veto occurs when the President/Governor returns the legislation to the house in which it originated. The President/Governor usually returns a vetoed bill with a message indicating his reasons for rejecting the measure. In Congress, the veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and the House.
(3) Every ordinance or resolution, except a resolution to adjourn, that has passed the board of aldermen shall immediately be presented to the mayor for his approval or disapproval. The mayor may disapprove any item or items of an appropriation measure; the parts approved shall be in force and the item or items disapproved shall be void, unless repassed in the same manner required for passage of ordinances over the mayor’s veto. If the mayor approves the ordinance or resolution, he shall sign it and it shall then be in force. If he disapproves the ordinance or resolution, or any item of an appropriation measure, he shall return it, with his objections, to the board of aldermen, which shall enter his objections in full upon its journal and proceed at its next or at its second regular meeting thereafter to consider it. If, after such reconsideration, two-thirds (2/3) of the members of the board of aldermen agree to its passage, the ordinance shall be in force, but in such cases the votes shall be taken by yeas and nays and recorded in the journal.
(4) If the mayor does not sign an ordinance or resolution presented to him, and does not return it on or before the day on which the board of aldermen holds its regular meeting next after the meeting at which the ordinance or resolution was passed, and three (3) days have intervened between the presentation to the mayor and the meeting, the ordinance or resolution shall be in force as if he had signed it.
History: Created 1972 Ky. Acts ch. 243, sec. 10.