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KRS § 387.330 — KY Code / Title XXXIII / Chapter 387 / Section 387.330
387.330 Petition for appointment of guardian or conservator conditioned on a contingency
Status: in_force

387.330 Petition for appointment of guardian or conservator conditioned on a

contingency.

(1) Any person of full age and sound mind may execute a verified petition for the

voluntary appointment of a guardian or a conservator of that person's property upon

the express condition that the petition shall be acted upon by the court only upon the

occurrence of an event specified or the existence of a described condition of the

mental or physical health of the petitioner, the occurrence of which event, or the

existence of which condition, shall be established in the manner directed in the

petition. The petition, when filed, shall be accompanied by an affidavit from a

licensed physician indicating that the person who signed the petition is now

disabled as defined in KRS 387.510. The petition shall advise the proposed ward of

a guardian's powers as provided in KRS 387.065 and conservator's powers as

provided in KRS 387.137.

(2) The petition may nominate a person for appointment to serve as guardian or

conservator, and may request that the appointment be made without bond, or with

bond of a certain stated sum. The court in appointing the guardian or conservator

shall appoint the individual nominated unless the court finds that person unfit or

incompetent and shall give due regard to the other requests and recommendations

contained in the petition.

(3) The petition may be deposited with the circuit clerk of the county in which the party

resides, or with any person, firm, bank, or trust company selected by the petitioner.

(4) The petition may be revoked by the petitioner at any time before appointment of a

guardian or conservator by the court, if the petitioner is of sound mind. Revocation

shall be accomplished by the destruction of the petition by the petitioner, or by the

execution of an acknowledged instrument of revocation. If the petition has been

deposited with the clerk, the revocation may be deposited there.

(5) At any time after the deposit of the petition with the clerk, and before its revocation,

it may be brought on for hearing by the filing of a verified statement to the effect

that the occurrence of the event or the condition provided for in the petition has

come to pass. If the petition has not been deposited with the clerk under the

provisions of subsection (3) of this section, it may be brought on for hearing at any

time by the filing of it and the verified statement with the circuit clerk of the county

in which the person who executed the petition then resides.

(6) At the time the petition is filed, the court, without any notice, may appoint the

guardian or conservator nominated in the petition or may set the petition for hearing

on notice the court may prescribe.

(7) The powers and duties of a guardian or conservator shall be the same as those of a

guardian or conservator appointed in response to any of the other petitions

authorized in this chapter.
KRS § 65.355 — KY Code / Title IX / Chapter 65 / Section 65.355
65.355 Creation of authority
Status: in_force

65.355 Creation of authority.

(1) Any local government, the county or independent school district within the

county, and the Commonwealth of Kentucky may enter into an interlocal

cooperation agreement pursuant to KRS 65.210 to 65.300 for the purpose of

establishing a land bank authority pursuant to KRS 65.350 to 65.375.

(2) The authority shall be a public body corporate and politic with the power to sue

and be sued, issue deeds in its name, and any other powers necessary and

convenient to carry out these powers or that may be granted to the authority by

the parties.

(3) The authority shall be established to acquire the tax delinquent properties of

the parties, properties that have become blighted or deteriorated as defined by

KRS 99.705 and properties that have local government liens filed against them,

to facilitate the public purpose of returning property that is in a non-revenue

generating, non-tax producing status to effective utilization, including but not

limited to providing housing, new industry, and jobs for the citizens of the

county. The authority shall have the powers provided in KRS 65.370 and

65.375 and in the interlocal cooperation agreement.
KRS § 56.580 — KY Code / Title VII / Chapter 56 / Section 56.580
56.580 Special buildings account created
Status: in_force

56.580 Special buildings account created.

There is hereby created within the general fund a special buildings account from which

expenditures may be made in carrying out the provisions of KRS 56.440 to 56.580.

Unexpended balances in the buildings account shall carry forward from year to year

without lapse.
KRS § 161.597 — KY Code / Title XIII / Chapter 161 / Section 161.597
161.597 Installment payments for purchase of service credit by active contributing members
Status: in_force

161.597 Installment payments for purchase of service credit by active contributing

members.

(1) A member in active contributing status may purchase any service credit which the

member is authorized to purchase by making installment payments in lieu of a

lump-sum payment.

(2) To initiate an installment payment plan, a member shall make a written request to

the retirement system for an estimate to purchase service credit by making

installment payments.

(3) To qualify for installment payments, the total cost of the service purchase, including

any chargeable interest, shall exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).

(4) Installment payments shall be at least fifty dollars ($50) per month and shall be

made for a period of time which is not less than twelve (12) months nor more than

sixty (60) months. Interest at eight percent (8%) per annum, unless the board

specifies in an administrative regulation a different interest rate, shall be charged on

all installment payment purchases of service credit that are purchasable at less than

full actuarial cost. Interest shall be assigned to the guarantee fund.

(5) Installment payments shall be made on a monthly basis by electronic fund transfer.

The payments shall be considered accumulated contributions and shall not be

picked up as provided in KRS 161.560, except that subject to approval by the

Internal Revenue Service and only as permitted by the Internal Revenue Code,

installment payments shall be made on a tax-deferred basis.

(6) A member may elect to terminate electronic fund transfers at any time and purchase

the remaining service credit by lump-sum payment. A member on a leave of

absence may continue to make installment payments. Termination of employment

in a covered position shall terminate installment payments. If the member is later

employed by a different employer in a covered position, the member may request a

new estimate and reinstate installment payments. A member that misses two (2)

consecutive installment payments shall be in default. A member in default shall

receive a refund of all prior installment payments and the member's service credit

shall be reduced accordingly. A member in default may not reinstate installment

payments for twelve (12) months from the date the member was in default.

(7) If a member dies before completing scheduled installment payments, the named

beneficiary of the member's retirement account may pay the remaining balance due

by a lump-sum payment within thirty (30) days of the death of the member.
KRS § 67A.745 — KY Code / Title IX / Chapter 67A / Section 67A.745
67A.745 Notification of property owners as to amount due -- Issuance of bonds
Status: in_force

67A.745 Notification of property owners as to amount due -- Issuance of bonds.

(1) When the total cost of the project has been established, the amount to be assessed

against each parcel of property shall be determined. Property owners shall be

notified by certified mail of the exact amount due for their portion of the project.

They shall be given thirty (30) days in which to pay in full.

(2) At the end of the thirty (30) days, the governing body shall total the amount of

properties for which no payment was received and authorize sale of bonds of the

urban-county government to provide the amount necessary to complete financing of

the project. The governing body shall establish the denominations and maturity

dates thereof which may be term or serial maturities, not to exceed twenty (20)

years.
KRS § 256.080 — KY Code / Title XXI / Chapter 256 / Section 256.080
256.080 Liability when livestock enter through lawful fence -- Lien on livestock
Status: in_force

256.080 Liability when livestock enter through lawful fence -- Lien on

livestock.

If any livestock enter into any land over or through a lawful fence, the owner or

manager of the livestock shall for the first trespass be liable to the owner or

occupant of that land for damages to his or her trees, grass, grain, crops, livestock

or land as he or she may have sustained by the entry of the livestock, and for every

subsequent trespass by the livestock of the same owner, double damages. After

giving the owner or manager of the livestock at least five (5) days' notice, in writing,

of the fact of two (2) previous breaches into the same enclosure by the livestock of

the same owner, the owner or occupant of the enclosure shall have a lien on the

livestock to indemnify him or her on account of any damages sustained by the third

or any subsequent trespasses of those livestock and may enforce his or her lien by

action as in cases of a mortgage lien.
KRS § 311.566 — KY Code / Title XXVI / Chapter 311 / Section 311.566
311.566 Restrictions on board's requirements for licensure
Status: in_force

311.566 Restrictions on board's requirements for licensure.

(1) As used in this section:

(a) "Continuing medical education" means continued postgraduate medical

education intended to provide medical professionals with knowledge of new

developments in their field;

(b) "Maintenance of certification" means any process requiring periodic

recertification examinations to maintain specialty medical board certification;

(c) "Maintenance of licensure" means the proprietary framework for physician

license renewal established through the Federation of State Medical Boards or

its successor organization, which includes additional periodic testing other

than continuing medical education; and

(d) "Specialty medical board certification" means certification by a board that

specializes in one (1) particular area of medicine and typically requires

additional and more strenuous examinations than the State Board of Medical

Licensure's requirements to practice medicine.

(2) The board shall not require any form of maintenance of licensure as a condition of

physician licensure, including requiring any form of maintenance of licensure tied

to maintenance of certification. The board's regular requirements, including

continuing medical education, shall suffice to demonstrate professional

competency.

(3) The board shall not require any form of specialty medical board certification or any

maintenance of certification to practice medicine in Kentucky.
KRS § 180.300 — KY Code / Title XV / Chapter 180 / Section 180.300
180.300 Contract with other governmental agencies for acquisition and maintenance of bridges and tunnels
Status: in_force

180.300 Contract with other governmental agencies for acquisition and

maintenance of bridges and tunnels.

The department may enter into written contracts with the owner of any bridge over or

tunnel under any boundary line stream of this state for the purchase or lease of the bridge

or tunnel to connect any primary road of this state with a hard surface road or street in an

adjoining state, when the adjoining state or a subdivision thereof or county or city in this

state, or the United States joins with the department in the purchase or lease of the bridge

or tunnel and jointly or severally contributes to the purchase price or the annual rental

price thereof, an amount equal to or in excess of the amount which the department

proposes to expend for the purchase or lease of the connecting bridge or tunnel. When the

bridge or tunnel is so purchased or leased, the department shall enter into a contract with

the other cooperating governments or subdivisions for the joint maintenance of the bridge

or tunnel.
KRS § 154A.063 — KY Code / Title XII / Chapter 154A / Section 154A.063
154A.063 Prohibited lottery games
Status: in_force

154A.063 Prohibited lottery games.

(1) The corporation shall not utilize amateur athletics for any purpose including, but not

limited to, advertising, promoting, conducting a lottery, or as a basis for a lottery.

(2) The corporation shall not approve and operate any casino or similar gambling

establishment and shall not approve or operate any game played with playing cards,

dice, dominos, slot machines, roulette wheels, or where winners are determined by

the outcome of a sports contest.

(3) This section shall not be construed to prohibit the corporation from advertising the

lottery at, during, or in connection with a sports contest.
KRS § 248.410 — KY Code / Title XXI / Chapter 248 / Section 248.410
248.410 Weighmen must be bonded
Status: in_force

248.410 Weighmen must be bonded.

(1) Warehouses shall submit to the department a list of the names of all weighmen

employed. Each weighman so listed shall furnish a bond in the amount of five

hundred dollars ($500) to the department for the faithful performance of his duty.

Should any weighman knowingly and willfully, for the purpose of misleading the

public, misrepresent or attempt to misrepresent the weight of any tobacco weighed

by him on the warehouse floor, his bond shall be forfeited and the proceeds of it

paid into the State Treasury.

(2) No person other than a bonded weighman shall be permitted to weigh tobacco for

the purpose of sale at any tobacco warehouse.
KRS § 218A.1432 — KY Code / Title XVIII / Chapter 218A / Section 218A.1432
218A.1432 Manufacturing methamphetamine -- Penalties
Status: in_force

218A.1432 Manufacturing methamphetamine -- Penalties.

(1) A person is guilty of manufacturing methamphetamine when he knowingly and

unlawfully:

(a) Manufactures methamphetamine; or

(b) With intent to manufacture methamphetamine possesses two (2) or more

chemicals or two (2) or more items of equipment for the manufacture of

methamphetamine.

(2) Manufacture of methamphetamine is a Class B felony for the first offense and a

Class A felony for a second or subsequent offense.
KRS § 393A.360 — KY Code / Title XXXIV / Chapter 393A / Section 393A.360
393A.360 Property removed from safe-deposit box
Status: in_force

393A.360 Property removed from safe-deposit box.

Property removed from a safe-deposit box and delivered under this chapter to the

administrator shall be subject to the holder's right to reimbursement for the cost of

opening the box and a lien or contract providing reimbursement to the holder for unpaid

rent charges for the box. The administrator shall reimburse the holder from the proceeds

remaining after deducting the expense incurred by the administrator in selling the

property.
KRS § 315.135 — KY Code / Title XXVI / Chapter 315 / Section 315.135
315.135 Registration as pharmacy technician required to assist in the practice of pharmacy -- Exemptions
Status: in_force

315.135 Registration as pharmacy technician required to assist in the practice of

pharmacy -- Exemptions.

(1) Effective April 1, 2009, a person shall not assist in the practice of pharmacy unless

he or she is duly registered as a pharmacy technician under the provisions of this

chapter or is exempt under subsection (2) of this section.

(2) A person may assist in the practice of pharmacy without obtaining the registration

required by this section if the person:

(a) Has filed an application with the board in accordance with KRS 315.136 and

no more than thirty (30) days has elapsed since the date the applicant was first

employed by the pharmacy. The exemption shall not apply if:

1. The application has been denied;

2. The person is less than sixteen (16) years of age; or

3. The person has previously been denied a registration or has had a

registration revoked or suspended in any jurisdiction and the registration

has not yet been issued or reinstated;

(b) Is in the employ of a son, daughter, spouse, parent, or legal guardian; or

(c) Is participating in a work-study program through an accredited secondary or

postsecondary educational institution.
KRS § 275.025 — KY Code / Title XXIII / Chapter 275 / Section 275.025
275.025 Contents of articles of organization
Status: in_force

275.025 Contents of articles of organization.

(1) The articles of organization shall set forth:

(a) A name for the limited liability company that satisfies the requirements of

KRS 14A.3-010;

(b) The registered office and initial registered agent that satisfy the requirements

of KRS 14A.4-010;

(c) The mailing address of the initial principal office of the limited liability

company; and

(d) A statement that the limited liability company is to be managed by a manager

or managers or that the limited liability company is to be managed by its

members.

(2) The term of a limited liability company shall be perpetual unless a period of

duration other than perpetual is set forth in the articles of organization.

(3) The articles of organization of a professional limited liability company shall

designate the professional services to be practiced through the professional limited

liability company.

(4) The articles of organization may set forth any other matter that under this chapter is

permitted to be set forth in an operating agreement not inconsistent with law.

(5) A member of a limited liability company shall not have a vested property right

resulting from any provision of the articles of organization.

(6) If the limited liability company is a nonprofit limited liability company, then the

articles of organization shall state that fact and its nonprofit purpose. This provision

of the articles of organization shall not be removed from the articles of organization

without written notice to the Attorney General of Kentucky given not less than ten

(10) business days prior to the filing of the amendment.

(7) The fact that the articles of organization are on file with the Secretary of State is

notice:

(a) That the limited liability company formed by the filing of the articles of

organization is a limited liability company formed under the laws of the

Commonwealth of Kentucky; and

(b) Of all other facts set forth in the articles of organization which are required to

be set forth by subsections (1), (3), and (6) of this section.
KRS § 216B.160 — KY Code / Title XVIII / Chapter 216B / Section 216B.160
216B.160 Requirement for a care delivery model based on patient needs for licensed health care facilities and services
Status: in_force

216B.160 Requirement for a care delivery model based on patient needs for

licensed health care facilities and services.

All health care facilities and services licensed under this chapter shall include in their

policies and procedures a care delivery model based on patient needs which includes but

is not limited to:

(1) Defined roles and responsibilities of licensed and unlicensed health care personnel;

(2) A policy that establishes the credentialing, oversight, appointment, and

reappointment of the registered nurse first assistant and for granting, renewing, and

revising of the registered nurse first assistant's clinical privileges;

(3) A policy that establishes the credentialing, oversight, appointment, and

reappointment of the physician assistant and for granting, renewing, and revising of

the physician assistant's clinical privileges;

(4) A policy that establishes the credentialing, oversight, appointment, and

reappointment of the certified surgical assistant and for granting, renewing, and

revising of the certified surgical assistant's clinical privileges;

(5) A staffing plan that specifies staffing levels of licensed and unlicensed personnel

required to safely and consistently meet the performance and clinical outcomes-

based standards as outlined in the facility's or service's quality improvement plan;

(6) A staffing model that is developed and implemented in an interdisciplinary and

collaborative manner;

(7) A policy and method that incorporates at least four (4) components in an ongoing

assessment done by the registered nurse, or in an assisted living community, a

registered nurse or the manager's designee, of the severity of the patient's disease,

patient condition, level of impairment or disability, and the specific unit patient

census to meet the needs of the individual patient in a timely manner; and

(8) A staffing model that supports the delivery of patient care services with an

appropriate mix of licensed health care personnel that will allow them to practice

according to their legal scope of practice, and for nurses, the professional standards

of practice referenced in KRS Chapter 314, and facility and service policies.

If a nursing facility, intermediate care facility, or skilled care facility meets the most

current state or federal regulations which address safe and consistent staffing levels of

licensed and unlicensed personnel, those shall suffice for compliance with the standards

in this section. This section shall not be interpreted as requiring any health care facility to

develop a policy or a procedure for a service not offered by the facility.
KRS § 447.040 — KY Code / Title XLI / Chapter 447 / Section 447.040
447.040 Decisions of English courts -- When authority
Status: in_force

447.040 Decisions of English courts -- When authority.

The decisions of the courts of Great Britain rendered since July 4, 1776, shall not be of

binding authority in the courts of Kentucky.
KRS § 186.078 — KY Code / Title XVI / Chapter 186 / Section 186.078
186.078 Local government ordinance on operation of street-legal special purpose vehicles permitted
Status: in_force

186.078 Local government ordinance on operation of street-legal special purpose

vehicles permitted.

(1) The legislative body of a local government may, by ordinance, allow the operation

of street-legal special purpose vehicles, as defined in KRS 186.077, on highways

within the local government's jurisdictional boundaries.

(2) A local government may adopt more stringent local ordinances governing street-

legal special purpose vehicle safety equipment and operation than specified in KRS

186.077.
KRS § 202C.140 — KY Code / Title XVII / Chapter 202C / Section 202C.140
202C.140 Rights of involuntarily committed patients
Status: in_force

202C.140 Rights of involuntarily committed patients.

A respondent involuntarily committed under this chapter shall have the following

rights as a patient:

(1) The right to be adequately informed as to his or her individual treatment

program;

(2) The right to assist in the planning of his or her treatment program;

(3) The right to refuse treatment subject to the provisions of KRS 202C.150;

(4) The right to maintain, keep, and use personal possessions and money;

(5) The right to receive visitors;

(6) The right to receive payment for work performed on behalf of the forensic

psychiatric facility;

(7) The right to refuse intrusive treatment subject to the provisions of KRS

202C.150;

(8) The right to be free from unreasonable use of seclusion and restraint;

(9) The right to seek relief from participating in his or her treatment plan; and

(10) The right to the assistance of counsel to uphold these rights and all rights

under this chapter.