In performing its functions, the Commission shall have the following powers and duties:
(A) To employ such personnel as are necessary to carry out the work of the Commission within the limits of the funds made available.
(B) To conduct or arrange for research projects and studies into, and publish reports on, discrimination and progress in equal opportunity in the community.
(C) To accept gifts or bequests, grants, or other payments, public or private, or to help finance its activities.
(D) To receive, initiate, investigate, seek to conciliate, and hold hearings on complaints alleging discrimination.
(E) To recommend methods for elimination of discrimination and intergroup tensions, and to use its best efforts to secure compliance with its recommendations.
(F) To refer formal complaints of discrimination to the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights where full legal remedies including back pay and damages for embarrassment and humiliation may be obtained. The Commission members and staff shall assist complainants in filing such complaints.
(G) To cooperate with other intergroup relations agencies, both public and private, on the local, state, and national level in performing its functions under this subchapter.
(H) To cooperate with the various departments, agencies, and boards of the city and county and of the Commonwealth in effectuating the purposes of this subchapter.
(I) To enlist the support of civic, labor, religious, professional, educational organizations and institutions in the community activities and programs that will further the goals of this subchapter.
(J) To organize community committees and councils that will work toward the goals of this subchapter.
(K) To recommend legislation to the city and county legislative body and modes of executive action to the Mayor and County Judge that will effectuate the purpose of this subchapter.
(L) To submit an annual report of its activities and of the progress and problems in intergroup relations in the community to the Mayor and County Judge and the city and county legislative body.
(M) To adopt, promulgate, amend, and rescind rules and regulations to effectuate the policies and provisions of this subchapter.
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