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KRS § 210.485 — KY Code / Title XVIII / Chapter 210 / Section 210.485
210.485 Regional boards to provide lists of hospitals, psychiatric facilities, and treatment providers for involuntary treatment under KRS 222.433 and 222.434
Status: in_force

210.485 Regional boards to provide lists of hospitals, psychiatric facilities, and

treatment providers for involuntary treatment under KRS 222.433 and

222.434.

Regional community boards for mental health or individuals with an intellectual disability

shall, on at least an annual basis, submit the following lists to the circuit clerks in each

board's region:

(1) A list of hospitals and psychiatric facilities in the judicial districts within the board's

region which are able and willing to take respondents ordered to undergo seventy-

two (72) hours of treatment and observation pursuant to KRS 222.434; and

(2) A list of hospitals and treatment providers in the judicial districts within the board's

region who are able and willing to provide treatment for substance use disorder

ordered pursuant to KRS 222.433.
KRS § 45A.353 — KY Code / Title VI / Chapter 45A / Section 45A.353
45A.353 Extension of guaranteed energy savings contract -- Documentation of savings -- Lease-purchase agreements -- Exemption from debt limitations
Status: in_force

45A.353 Extension of guaranteed energy savings contract -- Documentation of

savings -- Lease-purchase agreements -- Exemption from debt limitations.

(1) Guaranteed energy savings contracts may extend beyond the fiscal year in which

they become effective. The local public agency shall include in its annual budget

and appropriations act, for each subsequent fiscal year, any accounts payable under

guaranteed energy savings contracts during the fiscal year.

(2) The local public agency shall document the operational and energy cost savings and

capital cost avoidance specified in the guaranteed energy savings contract and

designate and appropriate that amount for an annual payment of the contract. If the

annual energy and operational savings are less than projected under the guaranteed

savings contract, the qualified provider shall pay the difference as provided for in

KRS 45A.352.

(3) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, a local public agency

may finance the installation of energy conservation measures for its buildings

through a lease-purchase agreement, bonds, or whichever brings the most economic

value to the local public agency, subject to the local public agency's compliance

with all other laws regarding approval of plans for additions, alterations, or

renovations of its buildings.

(4) The component which is guaranteed as energy savings and as operational savings

shall be exempt from current or future debt limitations, except that capital cost

avoidance, as defined in KRS 45A.345, shall be limited to current or future debt

limitations.
KRS § 227.332 — KY Code / Title XIX / Chapter 227 / Section 227.332
227.332 Notice of hearings
Status: in_force

227.332 Notice of hearings.

(1) The state fire marshal shall give written notice of a hearing as required by KRS

Chapter 13B. In addition to all parties to the hearing, the state fire marshal shall

give this notice to all persons whose pecuniary interests, to the state fire marshal's

knowledge or belief, are to be directly and immediately affected by the hearing.

(2) If any hearing is to be held for consideration of administrative regulations of the

commissioner, or of other matters which, under subsection (1) of this section, would

otherwise require separate notice to more than thirty (30) persons, in lieu of other

notice the commissioner may give notice of the hearing by publication pursuant to

KRS Chapter 424; but the commissioner shall mail the notice to all persons who

had requested the same in writing in advance and have paid to the commissioner the

reasonable amount fixed by him or her to cover the cost thereof.

(3) All notices, other than notices provided for in subsection (2) of this section, shall be

given as provided in KRS Chapter 13B.
KRS § 216.945 — KY Code / Title XVIII / Chapter 216 / Section 216.945
216.945 Short title for KRS 216.940 to 216.945
Status: in_force

216.945 Short title for KRS 216.940 to 216.945.

KRS 216.940 to 216.945 may be cited as the Kentucky Charitable Health Care Services

Act.
KRS § 17.180 — KY Code / Title III / Chapter 17 / Section 17.180
17.180 Automated fingerprint identification system
Status: in_force

17.180 Automated fingerprint identification system.

(1) The Department of Kentucky State Police shall design, implement, and maintain an

automated fingerprint identification system.

(2) The automated fingerprint identification system shall be compatible with any

similar system required by the federal government for inclusion of state information

in federal criminal justice databases.

(3) The Commonwealth shall provide and maintain in every detention center the

automated fingerprint identification system equipment and programs required by the

Department of Kentucky State Police through administrative regulation.
KRS § 96A.130 — KY Code / Title IX / Chapter 96A / Section 96A.130
96A.130 Authority's bonds are legal investments
Status: in_force

96A.130 Authority's bonds are legal investments.

Bonds issued by an authority, or by public bodies for the benefit of an authority, under the

provisions of this chapter, are hereby made securities in which all public officers and

public bodies of the state and its political subdivisions, all insurance companies, trust

companies, banking associations, investment companies, credit unions, savings and loan

associations, executors, administrators, trustees and other fiduciaries may properly and

legally invest funds, including capital in their control or belonging to them. Such bonds

are hereby made securities which may properly and legally be deposited with and

received by any state or municipal officer of any agency or political subdivision of the

state for any purpose for which the deposit of bonds or obligations is now or may

hereafter be authorized by law.
KRS § 158.814 — KY Code / Title XIII / Chapter 158 / Section 158.814
158.814 Comprehensive plan on secondary career and technical education programs -- Consultation with Career and Technical Education Advisory Committee
Status: in_force

158.814 Comprehensive plan on secondary career and technical education

programs -- Consultation with Career and Technical Education Advisory

Committee.

(1) In order to ensure that high-quality, relevant secondary career and technical

programs are available to students in all school districts that enable them to gain the

academic and technical skills to meet high school graduation requirements and for

successful transition to postsecondary education, work, or the military and to

support present-day and future needs of Kentucky employers, the Department of

Education shall:

(a) Review and revise as needed the equipment and facilities standards for each

career and technical education program identified and described in the career

and technical education supplement to the Kentucky program of studies and

published by the Department of Education; and

(b) Determine the statewide unmet needs for career and technical education

capital projects, including renovations and expansions of existing facilities

and the construction of new technology centers, through a needs assessment

process. This process shall be tied to specific criteria in determining if the

current programs or career pathways offered in locally and state-operated

facilities are appropriate for the students in the school districts served as well

as for determining if new programs are needed. The statewide assessment of

capital needs for career and technical education shall be incorporated into the

local school district facility plan as required by KRS 157.420. The Kentucky

Board of Education shall incorporate criteria within the administrative

regulations relating to school facility plan requirements to prioritize need for

career and technical education programming, regardless of whether the

programs are locally or state-operated.

(2) The Career and Technical Education Advisory Committee established in KRS

156.806 shall be consulted in carrying out the requirements of this section.
KRS § 363.520 — KY Code / Title XXIX / Chapter 363 / Section 363.520
363.520 Recognition of customary and metric systems of weights and measures
Status: in_force

363.520 Recognition of customary and metric systems of weights and measures.

The system of weights and measures in customary use in the United States and the metric

system of weights and measures are jointly recognized, and either one (1) or both of these

systems shall be used for all commercial purposes in the State of Kentucky. The

definitions of basic units of weight and measure, the tables of weight and measure, and

weights and measures equivalents as published by the National Institute of Standards and

Technology are recognized and shall govern weighing and measuring equipment and

transactions in the state.
KRS § 237.109 — KY Code / Title XIX / Chapter 237 / Section 237.109
237.109 Authorization to carry concealed deadly weapons without a license
Status: in_force

237.109 Authorization to carry concealed deadly weapons without a license.

(1) Persons age twenty-one (21) or older, and otherwise able to lawfully possess a

firearm, may carry concealed firearms or other concealed deadly weapons without a

license in the same locations as persons with valid licenses issued under KRS

237.110.

(2) Nothing in this section shall be construed to allow the carrying or possession of any

deadly weapon where it is prohibited by federal law.
KRS § 533.060 — KY Code / Title L / Chapter 533 / Section 533.060
533.060 Probation or conditional release -- Effect of use of firearm -- Other felonies
Status: in_force

533.060 Probation or conditional release -- Effect of use of firearm -- Other

felonies.

(1) When a person has been convicted of an offense or has entered a plea of guilty to an

offense classified as a Class A, B, or C felony and the commission of the offense

involved the use of a weapon from which a shot or projectile may be discharged that

is readily capable of producing death or other serious physical injury, the person

shall not be eligible for probation, shock probation, or conditional discharge, except

when the person establishes that the person against whom the weapon was used had

previously or was then engaged in an act or acts of domestic violence and abuse as

defined in KRS 403.720 against either the person convicted or a family member as

defined in KRS 403.720 of the person convicted. If the person convicted claims to

be exempt from this statute because that person was the victim of domestic violence

and abuse as defined in KRS 403.720, the trial judge shall conduct a hearing and

make findings to determine the validity of the claim and applicability of this

exemption. The findings of the court shall be noted in the final judgment.

(2) When a person has been convicted of a felony and is committed to a correctional

detention facility and released on parole or has been released by the court on

probation, shock probation, or conditional discharge, and is convicted or enters a

plea of guilty to a felony committed while on parole, probation, shock probation, or

conditional discharge, the person shall not be eligible for probation, shock

probation, or conditional discharge and the period of confinement for that felony

shall not run concurrently with any other sentence.

(3) When a person commits an offense while awaiting trial for another offense, and is

subsequently convicted or enters a plea of guilty to the offense committed while

awaiting trial, the sentence imposed for the offense committed while awaiting trial

shall not run concurrently with confinement for the offense for which the person is

awaiting trial.
KRS § 64.015 — KY Code / Title VIII / Chapter 64 / Section 64.015
64.015 Fees of county clerks for taking acknowledgments, certifying, and recording deeds for state or county road systems
Status: in_force

64.015 Fees of county clerks for taking acknowledgments, certifying, and recording

deeds for state or county road systems.

(1) County clerks shall be paid out of the state road fund the fees provided for in KRS

64.012, for taking acknowledgments, certifying, and recording deeds conveying

right-of-way to be used in the state road system.

(2) County clerks shall be paid by the fiscal court the fees provided for in KRS 64.012,

for taking acknowledgments, certifying, and recording deeds conveying right-of-

way to be used in the county road system.
KRS § 411.184 — KY Code / Title XXXVI / Chapter 411 / Section 411.184
411.184 Definitions -- Punitive damages -- Proof of punitive damages
Status: in_force

411.184 Definitions -- Punitive damages -- Proof of punitive damages.

(1) As used in this section and KRS 411.186, unless the context requires otherwise:

(a) "Oppression" means conduct which is specifically intended by the defendant

to subject the plaintiff to cruel and unjust hardship.

(b) "Fraud" means an intentional misrepresentation, deceit, or concealment of

material fact known to the defendant and made with the intention of causing

injury to the plaintiff.

(c) "Malice" means either conduct which is specifically intended by the defendant

to cause tangible or intangible injury to the plaintiff or conduct that is carried

out by the defendant both with a flagrant indifference to the rights of the

plaintiff and with a subjective awareness that such conduct will result in

human death or bodily harm.

(d) "Plaintiff" means any party claiming punitive damages.

(e) "Defendant" means any party against whom punitive damages are sought.

(f) "Punitive damages" includes exemplary damages and means damages, other

than compensatory and nominal damages, awarded against a person to punish

and to discourage him and others from similar conduct in the future.

(2) A plaintiff shall recover punitive damages only upon proving, by clear and

convincing evidence, that the defendant from whom such damages are sought acted

toward the plaintiff with oppression, fraud or malice.

(3) In no case shall punitive damages be assessed against a principal or employer for

the act of an agent or employee unless such principal or employer authorized or

ratified or should have anticipated the conduct in question.

(4) In no case shall punitive damages be awarded for breach of contract.

(5) This statute is applicable to all cases in which punitive damages are sought and

supersedes any and all existing statutory or judicial law insofar as such law is

inconsistent with the provisions of this statute.
KRS § 5.292 — KY Code / Title II / Chapter 5 / Section 5.292
5.292 Ninety-second Representative District
Status: in_force

5.292 Ninety-second Representative District.

The Ninety-second Representative District shall consist of the following territory:

County: Knott KY

County: Magoffin KY

County: Pike KY (part)

A107 - By Pass

B101 - Caney

B102 - Yeager

B103 - Old Shelby

B104 - Long Fork

B106 - Elwood

B107 - Island Creek

C105 - Raccoon

C106 - Rasnick

C111 - Burning Fork

D101 - Millard

D102 - Greasy Creek

D103 - Upper Chloe

D104 - Marrowbone

D105 - Rockhouse

D106 - New Shelby

D107 - Garden Village

D108 - Henry Clay

D110 - York
KRS § 15A.061 — KY Code / Title III / Chapter 15A / Section 15A.061
15A.061 Juvenile justice data tracking system -- Interdepartmental collaboration for analysis of juvenile recidivism
Status: in_force

15A.061 Juvenile justice data tracking system -- Interdepartmental collaboration

for analysis of juvenile recidivism.

(1) The cabinet shall maintain a comprehensive, centralized data tracking system for

the Department of Juvenile Justice.

(2) The cabinet shall ensure that all departments within the cabinet collaborate to

develop procedures to allow collection and sharing of data necessary to analyze

juvenile recidivism. Recidivism includes an adjudication of delinquency by a

juvenile court, or a conviction by a District Court or Circuit Court, for an offense

committed within three (3) years of release from the custody or control of the

Department of Juvenile Justice.
KRS § 394.090 — KY Code / Title XXXIV / Chapter 394 / Section 394.090
394.090 Nonrevocation of will by marriage of testator
Status: in_force

394.090 Nonrevocation of will by marriage of testator.

A will shall not be revoked by the marriage of the person who made the will.
KRS § 156.438 — KY Code / Title XIII / Chapter 156 / Section 156.438
156.438 Administrative regulations for reviewing and resolving claims of factual errors in adopted textbooks. (Effective until July 1, 2026)
Status: in_force

156.438 Administrative regulations for reviewing and resolving claims of factual

errors in adopted textbooks. (Effective until July 1, 2026)

(1) The Kentucky Board of Education shall promulgate administrative regulations to

establish procedures for reviewing and resolving claims of factual errors found in

textbooks after adoption by the State Textbook Commission.

(2) The administrative regulations shall include:

(a) A process for an individual who believes that a factual error or errors have

been found to file notice of his or her findings;

(b) A methodology for validating the accuracy of a claim of factual error;

(c) The development of conditions to include in publishers' contracts specifying

protocols for correcting errors which take into account the following:

1. The extensiveness of the errors found;

2. The remaining time left until the next textbook adoption cycle at the

time the claim is determined to be valid;

3. Conditions that would necessitate replacement of a book in its entirety;

and

4. Conditions that could be addressed through the insertion of corrections

in textbooks without replacement;

(d) Notice to school districts of errors, if found, and the resolution determined to

be available; and

(e) Notice to the claimant relative to the validation review and the resolution

determined to be available if the claim of error was validated.
KRS § 620.023 — KY Code / Title LI / Chapter 620 / Section 620.023
620.023 Evidence to be considered in determining the best interest of a child
Status: in_force

620.023 Evidence to be considered in determining the best interest of a child.

(1) Evidence of the following circumstances if relevant shall be considered by the court

in all proceedings conducted pursuant to KRS Chapter 620 in which the court is

required to render decisions in the best interest of the child:

(a) Mental illness as defined in KRS 202A.011 or an intellectual disability as

defined in KRS 202B.010 of the parent, as attested to by a qualified mental

health professional, which renders the parent unable to care for the immediate

and ongoing needs of the child;

(b) Acts of abuse or neglect as defined in KRS 600.020 toward any child;

(c) Substance use disorder, as defined in KRS 222.005, that results in an

incapacity by the parent or caretaker to provide essential care and protection

for the child;

(d) A finding of domestic violence and abuse as defined in KRS 403.720, whether

or not committed in the presence of the child;

(e) Any other crime committed by a parent which results in the death or

permanent physical or mental disability of a member of that parent's family or

household; and

(f) The existence of any guardianship or conservatorship of the parent pursuant to

a determination of disability or partial disability as made under KRS 387.500

to 387.770 and 387.990.

(2) In determining the best interest of the child, the court may consider the

effectiveness of rehabilitative efforts made by the parent or caretaker intended to

address circumstances in this section.

(3) In determining the best interest of the child, the court shall have access to the entire

protection and permanency record of the child that is prepared, owned, used, in the

possession of, or retained by the cabinet.
KRS § 223.990 — KY Code / Title XVIII / Chapter 223 / Section 223.990
223.990 Penalty
Status: in_force

223.990 Penalty.

Any person violating KRS 223.080 may be fined not more than one thousand dollars

($1,000) or imprisoned not more than six (6) months.
KRS § 67.540 — KY Code / Title IX / Chapter 67 / Section 67.540
67.540 Additional bonds authorized
Status: in_force

67.540 Additional bonds authorized.

If the county buildings commission finds that the bonds authorized will be insufficient to

accomplish the purpose desired, additional bonds may be authorized and issued subject to

the same procedure.
KRS § 177.047 — KY Code / Title XV / Chapter 177 / Section 177.047
177.047 Permission of department required for obstructions or excavations in streets
Status: in_force

177.047 Permission of department required for obstructions or excavations in

streets.

Any city or person who enters upon such designated city connecting link streets or rights

of way thereof, for the purpose of laying conduits, pipes, poles or wires therein, thereon

or thereunder or makes any obstruction thereon or any excavation thereunder, which

necessitates any change in the condition or structure thereof, shall do so as provided by

regulations prescribed by the Department of Highways. The Department of Highways

may prescribe rules and regulations for the protection of city connecting link streets,

under which such work shall be done, and require indemnity for any damage occasioned

by work done under the regulations.
KRS § 272.333 — KY Code / Title XXIII / Chapter 272 / Section 272.333
272.333 KRS 136.060 not applicable to membership certificates, stock, or other evidence of member, shareholder or patron interest
Status: in_force

272.333 KRS 136.060 not applicable to membership certificates, stock, or other

evidence of member, shareholder or patron interest.

The provisions of KRS 136.060 shall not apply to the issuance of membership

certificates, shares of stock or any other evidence of member, shareholder, or patron

interest by any such agricultural cooperative association.