OAG 78-178 | KOGC

Request By:

Mr. Vic Hellard, Jr., Director
Legislative Research Commission
State Capitol
Frankfort, Kentucky

Opinion

Opinion By: Robert F. Stephens, Attorney General; By: Walter C. Herdman, Assistant Deputy Attorney General

This is in answer to your letter of March 14 in which you desire to know the effective date of legislation enacted during the 1978 Regular Session of the Kentucky General Assembly.

In response to the above question, we are of the opinion that ordinary legislation enacted at the 1978 Regular Session of the Kentucky General Assembly will become effective on June 17.

March 18, the day of adjournment, must be excluded, which means that June 16 would be the 90th day following adjournment which must be included in computing the 90-day period of time, thereby making all ordinary legislation effective on June 17. Concerning the method of computation, we refer to OAG 72-195, a copy of which we are attaching.

LLM Summary

In OAG 78-178, the Attorney General responded to an inquiry about the effective date of legislation passed during the 1978 Regular Session of the Kentucky General Assembly. The opinion clarifies that ordinary legislation will become effective on June 17, following the exclusion of March 18 (the day of adjournment) and including June 16 as the 90th day in the computation. OAG 72-195 was cited as a reference for the method used in computing this 90-day period.

Support Our Work