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An Ordinance creating Section 16-2.1 of the Code of Ordinances to require any person engaged in the design, review, construction, repair, and/or inspection of infrastructure in Lexington-Fayette County to comply with the LFUCG Engineering Manuals and to provide that a failure to comply with the Engineering Manuals is classified as a violation subject to civil enforcement; amending Section 16-201(a) of the Code to authorize civil enforcement for such violations consistent with the procedures set forth in Chapter 16, Article XII of the Code; and amending Subsection 14-10(f)(5) of the Code to designate Citation Officers having authority to enforce the Engineering Manuals. [Council Office, Maynard]
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WHEREAS, the Urban County Council has previously adopted seven (7) engineering manuals, consisting of the Procedures Manual, the Construction Inspection Manual, the Geotechnical Manual, the Roadway Manual, the Structures Manual, the Stormwater Manual, and the Sanitary Sewer and Pumping Station Manual (collectively, "Engineering Manuals"), to provide standards for the design, review, construction, repair, and inspection of infrastructure in Lexington-Fayette County; and
WHEREAS, in furtherance of the authority Granted by KRS 65.8801 through KRS 65.8839, the Urban County Government desires to classify the failure of any person engaged in design, review, construction, repair, and/or inspection of infrastructure to comply with any provision of the Engineering Manuals as a violation and to authorize civil enforcement for those violations consistent with the procedures set forth in Chapter 16, Article XII of the Code of Ordinances; and
WHEREAS, in order to better facilitate enforcement of the engineering manuals, the Urban County Government desires to amend Section 14-10 of the Code to designate citation officers having authority to enforce the engineering manuals and those subsections of the Zoning Ordinance and the Land Subdiv. Regulations that...
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