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Request By:

Mr. Vic Hellard, Jr.
Director
Legislative Research Commission
Capitol
Frankfort, Kentucky 40601

Opinion

Opinion By: David L. Armstrong, Attorney General; Walter C. Herdman, Asst. Deputy Attorney General

This is in response to your letter of April 17 in which you relate the following facts and question:

"At the time I requested an opinion from your office in regard to the effective date of legislation enacted during the 1984 Regular Session of the General Assembly, I assumed that the date of sine die adjournment would be April 14, 1984.

In fact, the General Assembly adjourned sine die on Friday, April 13, 1984. I am, therefore, requesting a new opinion from your office as to the effective date of legislation enacted at the recent session of the General Assembly, assuming that the legislation does not contain a special effective date."

In view of the fact that the General Assembly adjourned sine die on Friday, April 13, 1984, rather than Saturday, April 14, 1984 as anticipated in your original request, the effective date of ordinary legislation will be July 13, 1984 rather than July 14, 1984, the date originally computed by this Office in OAG 84-18.

Therefore, all ordinary legislation enacted at the 1984 legislative session will become effective July 13, 1984, OAG 84-18 is hereby withdrawn.

LLM Summary
In OAG 84-164, the Attorney General revises the effective date of legislation passed during the 1984 Regular Session of the General Assembly. The revision is due to a correction in the previously assumed adjournment date. The new effective date for ordinary legislation is set as July 13, 1984, and as a result, the previous opinion, OAG 84-18, which calculated the effective date based on an incorrect adjournment date, is withdrawn.
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Type:
Opinion
Lexis Citation:
1984 Ky. AG LEXIS 221
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