In the enforcement of this Subchapter, the Bowling Green Human Rights Commission has the following powers and duties:
a. To meet and exercise its powers at any place within the City;
b. To employ attorneys, hearing examiners, clerks and other employees and agents, and to appoint and empower committees and divisions to assist in effecting the purposes and provisions of this Subchapter;
c. To accept gifts and bequests, grants, or other payments, public or private, to help finance its activities;
d. To receive, initiate, investigate, seek to conciliate, hold hearings on and pass upon complaints alleging violations of this Subchapter;
e. To administer oaths;
f. To compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of evidence before it by subpoena issued by the Circuit Court;
g. To issue remedial orders, after notice and hearings requiring cessation of violations, and to seek enforcement of such orders as provided in KRS 344.340;
h. To issue such affirmative orders as in the judgement of the Commission will carry out the purposes of this Subchapter. Affirmative action ordered may include, but is not limited to the remedies enumerated in KRS 344.230(3);
i. To adopt, promulgate, amend and rescind rules and regulations to effectuate the purpose and provisions of this Subchapter, including regulations requiring the posting of notices prepared or approved by the Commission; and,
j. All other such powers as provided in the Kentucky Civil Rights Act and Ordinance No. 68-120 creating the Bowling Green Human Rights Commission.
(Ord. BG80-63, S16-37, 7/15/80; Ord. BG2000-51, 12/5/2000; Ord. BG2003-53, 10/7/2003)