The regular enactment procedure for ordinances shall be as follows:
(A) No county ordinance shall be passed until it has been read on two separate days, but ordinances may be read by title and a summary only. A proposed ordinance may be amended by the Fiscal Court after its first reading and prior to its adoption. All amendments shall be proposed in writing, and only by setting out in full each amended section.
(B) All county ordinances and amendments shall be published pursuant to KRS Chapter 424 after passage and may be published in full or in summary form at the discretion of the Fiscal Court. If applicable, a sketch, drawing or map, together with a narrative description written in layman’s terms, may be used in lieu of metes and bounds descriptions. If published in summary form, publication shall contain notice of a place in the county where the full text of the ordinance or amendment is available for public inspection.
(C) Traffic, building, housing, plumbing, electrical, safety and other self-contained codes may be adopted by reference if a copy of the code is kept with the adopting ordinance and is made a part of the permanent records of the county.
(KRS 67.077)
(D) Unless otherwise provided by statute, a majority of a Fiscal Court shall constitute a quorum and a majority of a quorum shall be sufficient to take action, except that a majority of the Fiscal Court shall be required to pass an ordinance. No meeting shall be held by the Fiscal Court without notice to all members thereof.
(E) A majority of the Fiscal Court may declare an emergency to exist by naming and describing the emergency, and thereafter may adopt a county ordinance to address that emergency without regard to the requirements of KRS 67.077.
(F) All county ordinances and other official action shall state the effective date thereof.
(KRS 67.078).