Jones v. County of Laurel

GUDGEL, Judge.

This is an appeal from a declaratory judgment of the Laurel Circuit Court. The issue is whether a portion of HB68, enacted by the 1979 Extraordinary Session of the *490General Assembly, whereby a phrase was deleted from subsection (3)(j) of KRS 67.-083, is a valid legislative enactment. The court below declared that it is not. We affirm.

KRS 67.083(3)(j) was first enacted at the regular session of the General Assembly in 1978. As enacted, it authorized county governments to enact ordinances to perform the following public functions:

0) Facilitating the construction of new housing;…