It is the intent of KRS 65.8801 to 65.8839 to protect, promote, and improve the health,
safety, and welfare of the citizens residing within the local governments of this state by
authorizing the creation of administrative boards with the authority to issue remedial
orders and impose civil fines in order to provide an equitable, expeditious, effective, and
inexpensive method of ensuring compliance with the ordinances in force in local
governments. KRS 65.8801 to 65.8839 is intended and shall be construed to provide an
additional or supplemental means of obtaining compliance with local government
ordinances, and nothing contained in KRS 65.8801 to 65.8839 shall prohibit the
enforcement of local government ordinances by any other means authorized by law.
Effective: July 15, 1996
History: Created 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 177, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1996.
Notes of Decisions
Louisville Metro Health Dep't v. Highview Manor Ass'n, 319 S.W.3d 380 (Ky. 2010).
· cites it 4× “KRS 65.8801 to 65.8839 authorize, as an alternative to district court enforcement of local ordinances, the creation of “administrative boards with the authority to issue remedial orders and impose civil fines in order to provide an equitable, expeditious, effective, and…”
Short v. City of Olive Hill, 414 S.W.3d 433 (Ky. Ct. App. 2013).
“Thus, Olive Hill has argued, and we believe correctly, that the Code Enforcement Officer was never required to issue any affidavit of compliance or noncompliance with same.”
Kim Telesford-Mapp v. Waterside Tax Serv. (Ky. Ct. App. 2022).
“02,2 to vacate the order costs incurred by the purchaser after the sale for maintenance or repair of the property, including but not limited to utility expenses, insurance, association fees, taxes, and the costs to conform the property to the minimum standards of local nuisance…”
M E Wood v. Bruce Clewell (Ky. Ct. App. 2024).
“ten percent (10%) per annum interest thereon, and any reasonable costs incurred by the purchaser after the sale for maintenance or repair of the property, including but not limited to utility expenses, insurance, association fees, taxes, and the costs to conform the property to…”
M E Wood v. Bruce Clewell (Ky. Ct. App. 2024).
“ten percent (10%) per annum interest thereon, and any reasonable costs incurred by the purchaser after the sale for maintenance or repair of the property, including but not limited to utility expenses, insurance, association fees, taxes, and the costs to conform the property to…”
Arnold (W.D. Ky. 2026).
“§ 65.8801. A hearing was scheduled as mandated by Ky.”
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