The Human Rights Commission is authorized to:
(A) Receive, initiate, investigate, hear, and determine charges of violation of ordinances, orders, or resolutions forbidding discrimination adopted by the city.
(B) Compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of evidence before it by subpoena issued by the Circuit Court.
(C) Issue remedial orders, after notice and hearing, requiring cessation of violations.
(D) Issue affirmative orders as in its judgment will carry out the purposes of this subchapter and Chapter 95.
(E) Employ an executive director, attorneys, hearing examiners, clerks and other employees and agents.
(F) Enter into cooperative working agreements with federal or state agencies to achieve the purposes of this subchapter and Chapter 95.
(G) In its discretion or upon request of the City Council or the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights refer a matter under its jurisdiction to the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights for initial action or review.
(Ord. 79-5, passed - - )
Statutory reference:
Powers of local commissions, see KRS 344.230 and 344.330