(A) This chapter shall be known as the “Stormwater Quality Management Ordinance” for the City of Mount Washington (“the city”), Kentucky, and may be so cited.
(B) The purpose of this chapter is to provide regulations and measures that will address stormwater quality in the city and to establish procedures by which these requirements are to be administered and enforced.
(C) Jurisdiction.
(1) The laws of the Commonwealth of Kentucky shall apply to this chapter.
(2) The Stormwater Quality Management Ordinance shall govern all properties within the jurisdictional boundaries of the city.
(3) This chapter is applicable to all new development and redevelopment activities that result in the disturbance of one (1) or mores acres of land including disturbance of less than one (1) acre as part of a larger common plan.
(D) The following activities are exempt from the provisions of this chapter:
(1) Agricultural and Silviculture (woodland production) operations according to an Agricultural Water Quality Plan approved by the City Conservation District or approved as required in the Kentucky Agricultural Water Quality Plan developed in accordance with the Kentucky Agricultural Water Quality Authority.
(2) Land reclamation projects regulated by the Kentucky State Department for Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement.
(Ord. 08-04, passed 1-14-08)