(1) No action embraced in the term "county ordinance" may be taken except by passage of a county ordinance. Other official actions, including but not limited to approvals required by the fiscal court, may be taken by resolution, order, or motion; (2) All ordinances shall be introduced in writing; (3) No county ordinance shall relate to more than one (1) subject, and each ordinance shall be prefaced in the following manner by a title which expresses that subject: "AN ORDINANCE relating to (the subject of the ordinance):"; (4) There shall be inserted between the title and the body of each county ordinance an enacting clause written in the following manner: "Be it ordained by the fiscal court of county of.........., Commonwealth of Kentucky:"; (5) County ordinances shall be amended by ordinance and only by setting out in full each amended section; (6) No action of a fiscal court shall be invalidated because of improper denomination of a county ordinance or other written document, if the procedures required for takin g the action have otherwise been observed.
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