In the enforcement of this chapter, the City Council 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 purpose and provisions of this chapter;
(C) To accept gifts or bequests, grants or other payments, public or private, to help finance its activities;
(D) To remove, initiate, investigate, seek to conciliate, hold hearings on and pass upon complaints alleging violations of this chapter;
(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 hearing requiring cessation of violations and to seek enforcement of such orders;
(H) To issue such affirmative orders to carry out the purposes of this chapter. Affirmative action orders 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 purposes and provisions of this chapter, including regulations concerning the notices; and
(J) All other such powers as provided in the state’s Civil Rights Act, being KRS Ch. 344.
(1991 Code, § 6-28) (Ord. 983-94, passed 3-10-1983)