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KRS § 213.174 — KY Code / Title XVIII / Chapter 213 / Section 213.174
213.174 Report forms -- Annual statistical report -- Public records -- Confidentiality of identity -- Communication of reporting requirements
Status: in_force

213.174 Report forms -- Annual statistical report -- Public records --

Confidentiality of identity -- Communication of reporting requirements.

(1) The cabinet shall create and distribute the report forms required in KRS

213.101, 213.172, 311.732, 311.7735, 311.7736, 311.774, 311.7741, and

311.783 within sixty (60) days after April 14, 2022.

(2) The cabinet shall prepare and submit a comprehensive annual statistical report

to the General Assembly based upon the data gathered from reports required

in KRS 213.101, 213.172, 311.732, 311.7735, 311.7736, 311.774, 311.7741,

and 311.783. The aggregated data shall also be made available to the public

by the cabinet in an electronic format.

(3) Reports required in KRS 213.101, 213.172, 311.732, 311.7735, 311.7736,

311.774, 311.7741, and 311.783 shall be deemed public records and shall be

provided by the cabinet to the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure, the

Kentucky Board of Pharmacy, state law enforcement offices, and child

protective services upon request for use in the performance of their official

duties.

(4) Absent a valid court order or judicial subpoena, the cabinet, and any other

state department, agency, or office or any employees thereof, shall not

compare data concerning drug-induced abortion or drug-induced abortion

complications or adverse events as defined in KRS 311.7731 maintained in an

electronic or other information system file with data in any other electronic or

other information system, the comparison of which could result in identifying, in

any manner or under any circumstances, a pregnant patient who is obtaining or

seeking to obtain a drug-induced abortion.

(5) Statistical information that may reveal the identity of a pregnant person

obtaining or seeking to obtain a drug-induced abortion shall not be maintained

by the cabinet or any other state department, agency, or office, or any

employee or contractor thereof.

(6) The cabinet shall communicate the reporting requirements in KRS 213.101,

213.172, 311.732, 311.7735, 311.7736, 311.774, 311.7741, and 311.783 to all

medical professional organizations, licensed physicians, hospitals, emergency

medical service providers, abortion facilities, ambulatory surgical facilities,

pharmacies, and other healthcare facilities operating in Kentucky.
KRS § 186A.235 — KY Code / Title XVI / Chapter 186A / Section 186A.235
186A.235 Owner to notify clerk of residence or name change
Status: in_force

186A.235 Owner to notify clerk of residence or name change.

(1) Whenever any person after making application for or obtaining a certificate of

registration or title for a vehicle, shall move from the address named in the

application or shown upon a registration card or certificate of title, such person shall

within fifteen (15) days thereafter notify the county clerk of the county in which he

resides in writing of his old and new addresses as well as the current license number

of all vehicles currently registered or titled in his name. The county clerk shall

immediately enter such change into the automated system.

(2) Whenever the name of any person who has made application for or obtained a

certificate of registration or title for a vehicle is thereafter changed by marriage or

otherwise, such person shall within fifteen (15) days notify the county clerk of the

county of residence of such former and new name. The county clerk shall

immediately enter such change into the automated system.
KRS § 190.300 — KY Code / Title XVI / Chapter 190 / Section 190.300
190.300 Disclosure of mileage upon transfer of motor vehicle or motor home
Status: in_force

190.300 Disclosure of mileage upon transfer of motor vehicle or motor home.

(1) Any transferor must give a written disclosure to the transferee in connection with

the transfer of ownership of a motor vehicle or motor home:

(a) Disclosing the cumulative mileage registered on the odometer.

(b) Disclosure that the actual mileage is unknown, if the odometer reading is

known to the transferor to be different from the number of miles the vehicle

has actually traveled.

(2) It shall be a violation of this section for any transferor to knowingly give a false

statement to a transferee in making any disclosure required by this section.
KRS § 311A.025 — KY Code / Title XXVI / Chapter 311A / Section 311A.025
311A.025 Levels of certification or licensure -- Administrative regulations -- Emergency services medical director
Status: in_force

311A.025 Levels of certification or licensure -- Administrative regulations --

Emergency services medical director.

(1) The board shall, subject to the provisions of this chapter, create levels of

certification or licensure, as appropriate for providing services under this chapter.

These may consist of but not be limited to:

(a) Emergency medical services educator, Level I, II, and III;

(b) Emergency medical responder;

(c) Emergency medical technician and advanced emergency medical technician;

(d) Paramedic, advanced practice paramedic, and paramedic preceptor;

(e) Emergency medical services medical director who supervises a person or

organization licensed or certified by the board;

(f) Mobile integrated healthcare program medical director who supervises an

MIH program licensed by the board;

(g) Emergency medical services training institution;

(h) Emergency medical services testing agency;

(i) Ground ambulance service, including categories thereof;

(j) Air ambulance service;

(k) Medical first response provider;

(l) Emergency medical dispatcher, emergency medical dispatch instructor, and

emergency medical dispatch instructor trainer;

(m) Emergency medical dispatch center or public safety answering point; and

(n) Any other entity authorized by this chapter.

(2) The board shall promulgate administrative regulations in accordance with KRS

Chapter 13A for any certification or license the board may create. The

administrative regulations shall, at a minimum, address:

(a) Requirements for students, if appropriate;

(b) Requirements for training;

(c) Eligibility for certification or licensure; and

(d) Renewal, recertification, and relicensure requirements.

(3) The board may authorize a physician licensed to practice in Kentucky to serve as an

emergency medical services medical director if that physician meets the

requirements specified by the board by administrative regulation.

(4) A hospital that owns an ambulance service that is exempt from certificate of need

pursuant to KRS 216B.020(7) may provide transport services from another health

facility to its hospital if authorized by the ambulance service provider with

jurisdiction in the territory in which the other health facility is located.
KRS § 151.580 — KY Code / Title XII / Chapter 151 / Section 151.580
151.580 Negotiation with federal agencies for operation or maintenance of a navigable waterway within Kentucky -- Approval of agreement -- Appropriation
Status: in_force

151.580 Negotiation with federal agencies for operation or maintenance of a

navigable waterway within Kentucky -- Approval of agreement --

Appropriation.

The cabinet may negotiate with the appropriate federal agencies for the operation or

maintenance of a navigable waterway within the state boundaries. The cabinet shall not

initiate negotiation for operation or maintenance of a waterway under federal control

unless the lack of an agreement jeopardizes the continued navigation of said waterway.

Any agreement negotiated by the cabinet shall be subject to the approval of the Governor

and the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet, and, if the negotiated

agreement will involve the expenditure of state funds, the General Assembly may

appropriate funds to fulfill the terms of the negotiated agreement before the negotiated

agreement shall become effective.
KRS § 161.490 — KY Code / Title XIII / Chapter 161 / Section 161.490
161.490 Investigation of statement
Status: in_force

161.490 Investigation of statement.

To the extent to which it is used in determining the liability of any fund of the retirement

system, the board of trustees shall ascertain the correctness of the statement filed under

KRS 161.480 by the best evidence it is able to obtain. If official records are not available

as to length of service, age, salary, or other information required for the administration of

the retirement system, the board may use its discretion as to the evidence to be accepted.
KRS § 40.020 — KY Code / Title V / Chapter 40 / Section 40.020
40.020 Legislative intent
Status: in_force

40.020 Legislative intent.

This chapter is intended to implement KRS 40.005, ratified by the electorate at the

regular elections on November 3, 1959, by providing for payment of a cash bonus to

qualified veterans, or to certain persons deriving from them, as quickly and as free from

administrative delay and expense as may be consistent with provident stewardship of

public moneys of the Commonwealth.
KRS § 352.060 — KY Code / Title XXVIII / Chapter 352 / Section 352.060
352.060 Rock-dusting
Status: in_force

352.060 Rock-dusting.

The following rules shall govern in the rock-dusting of mines:

(1) All mines, or parts of mines, or sections thereof, shall be rock-dusted if conditions

are found to be dusty or hazardous, after proper inspection. In the event such

conditions are found to exist, then the commissioner or his authorized

representative shall require the necessary rock-dusting to make the mine, part of the

mine, or section safe.

(2) In all mines, accumulations of excessive loose coal and fine dry coal dust shall be

removed from the mine, and all operating sections kept thoroughly rock-dusted, and

the dust on the mine floor allayed by methods approved by the commissioner, but in

every mine, or in any part or section thereof, rock-dusting shall be applied to

maintain at all times a minimum percentage of sixty-five percent (65%) of

noncombustible matter to within forty (40) feet of the faces, including last open

crosscuts, and under certain special conditions the department may require that

places be rock-dusted to the faces, and that additional rock-dust be added.
KRS § 164.6029 — KY Code / Title XIII / Chapter 164 / Section 164.6029
164.6029 Kentucky Rural Innovation Program -- Purposes
Status: in_force

164.6029 Kentucky Rural Innovation Program -- Purposes.

(1) There is created and established in the Council on Postsecondary Education a

Kentucky Rural Innovation Program to provide awards to rural Kentucky-based,

small companies to undertake research, development, and entrepreneurial

innovation work in partnership with Kentucky postsecondary institutions, the Small

Business Development Center Network in Kentucky, and other entities engaged in

research and development work.

(2) The purpose of the Kentucky Rural Innovation Program is to:

(a) Accelerate knowledge transfer and technological innovation that improve

economic competitiveness and spur economic growth in rural, Kentucky-

based, small companies;

(b) Support entrepreneurial activities that have clear potential to lead to

commercially successful products, processes, or services within a reasonable

period of time;

(c) Stimulate growth-oriented enterprises within the Commonwealth;

(d) Encourage partnerships and collaborative projects between private enterprises,

Kentucky's postsecondary institutions, research organizations, and the Small

Business Development Center Network in Kentucky; and

(e) Promote research, development, and entrepreneurial activities that are driven

by private sector requirements.
KRS § 258.991 — KY Code / Title XXI / Chapter 258 / Section 258.991
258.991 Penalties
Status: in_force

258.991 Penalties.

(1) Any person violating KRS 258.500(2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (11), or (12) shall be

punished by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars ($500) nor more than one

thousand dollars ($1,000). No person shall be charged with a violation of KRS

258.500(2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (11), or (12) if the requirements of KRS 258.500(7)

and (8) are not met.

(2) Misrepresentation of a dog as an assistance dog to gain accommodation under KRS

258.335(2) is a violation with a fine of up to one thousand dollars ($1,000).
KRS § 324A.088 — KY Code / Title XXVI / Chapter 324A / Section 324A.088
324A.088 Short title
Status: in_force

324A.088 Short title.

KRS 324A.010 to 324A.090 may be cited as the Real Estate Appraisal Voluntary

Certification Act.
KRS § 199.885 — KY Code / Title XVII / Chapter 199 / Section 199.885
199.885 Employee Child Care Assistance Partnership fund
Status: in_force

199.885 Employee Child Care Assistance Partnership fund.

(1) There is hereby established in the State Treasury a revolving account to be

known as the Employee Child Care Assistance Partnership fund. The fund

shall consist of moneys appropriated by the General Assembly, contributions,

gifts, or grants made available for the purposes of the program.

(2) The fund shall be administered by the cabinet or its designated department.

(3) Notwithstanding KRS 45.229, any moneys remaining in the fund at the close of

the fiscal year shall not lapse but shall be carried forward to the next fiscal

year.

(4) Any interest earnings of the fund shall become a part of the fund and shall not

lapse.

(5) Moneys deposited in the fund are hereby appropriated for the purposes set

forth in KRS 199.881 to 199.888 and shall not be appropriated or transferred

by the General Assembly for any other purpose.

(6) The cabinet shall issue state matches out of the fund to child-care providers in

accordance with the provisions of the respective contracts and in the order that

the cabinet processed the contracts.

(7) (a) The state match shall not exceed one hundred percent (100) of the

contribution made by the employer for contracts in which the employee's

household income is equal to or less than one hundred percent (100) of

the state median household income.

(b) The state match shall decrease by ten percent (10) for each twenty

percent (20) increase in household income over one hundred percent

(100) of the state median household income up to one hundred eighty

percent (180) of the state median household income.

(c) The state match shall equal fifty percent (50) for contracts in which the

employee's household income exceeds one hundred eighty percent

(180) of the state median household income.

(8) In each fiscal year, twenty-five percent (25) of the total fund shall be

distributed to agreements in which an employer is a small business.

(9) In fiscal year 2022-2023, five percent (5) of the total fund shall be distributed

to the cabinet to administer the program. In every fiscal year thereafter, three

percent (3) of the total fund shall be distributed to the cabinet to administer

the program.

(10) A state match issued pursuant to this program and administered by the cabinet

is for the promotion of the general welfare and shall not be considered

compensation for an employee's service.
KRS § 18A.190 — KY Code / Title III / Chapter 18A / Section 18A.190
18A.190 Holidays for state personnel -- Military spouses to receive paid deployment and return days off
Status: in_force

18A.190 Holidays for state personnel -- Military spouses to receive paid

deployment and return days off.

(1) State offices shall be closed and state employees shall be given a holiday on the

following days:

(a) The first day of January plus one (1) extra day;

(b) The third Monday in January;

(c) Good Friday, one-half (1/2) day;

(d) The last Monday in May;

(e) The fourth day of July;

(f) The first Monday in September;

(g) The eleventh day of November;

(h) Presidential election day as required under KRS 2.190;

(i) The fourth Thursday in November plus one (1) extra day; and

(j) The twenty-fifth day of December plus one (1) extra day.

(2) When any of the days enumerated in subsection (1) falls on a Saturday, the

preceding Friday shall be observed as the holiday, and when any of the days

enumerated in subsection (1) falls on a Sunday, the following Monday shall be

observed as the holiday. When one (1) extra day is mentioned in paragraphs (a), (i)

and (j) of subsection (1), the Governor shall designate the extra day.

(3) Any state employee who is the spouse of a member of the United States Armed

Forces, including a member of a state National Guard or a Reserve component on

federal active duty, shall receive, at the discretion of the state employee, one (1) day

off, with pay, from work when the member is deployed and one (1) day off, with

pay, from work when the member returns from deployment.

(4) The holidays set out in this section are in addition to vacation leave and other

benefits of state employees.
KRS § 91A.0808 — KY Code / Title IX / Chapter 91A / Section 91A.0808
91A.0808 Local premium tax advisory council -- Members -- Purpose
Status: in_force

91A.0808 Local premium tax advisory council -- Members -- Purpose.

(1) (a) The commissioner of the Department of Insurance shall appoint a local

premium tax advisory council to provide advice and expertise on the

imposition, administration, and collection of taxes and fees imposed pursuant

to KRS 91A.080. The council shall be chaired by the commissioner of the

Department of Insurance and shall be composed of eight (8) members which

shall include two (2) city government representatives nominated by the

Kentucky League of Cities, two (2) county government representatives

nominated by the Kentucky Association of Counties, one (1) independent

insurance agent, one (1) representative of a domestic insurance company, one

(1) representative of a foreign insurance company, and one (1) representative

of an insurance trade association. Members shall serve four (4) year terms,

except for the initial members whose appointments shall be staggered.

(b) The chair shall preside over meetings of the advisory council but shall have no

vote except that he or she may cast a vote in order to break a tie.

(c) The Department of Insurance shall staff and assist the council which shall

meet at least two (2) times per year at meetings called by the chair or a

majority of the members.

(2) The council may identify ways to make the system more effective and efficient for

all parties by making recommendations on needed legislative changes and providing

comments on needed regulatory reforms. In addition, the council may provide

information and assistance to insurance companies and local governments regarding

procedures and practices related to compliance with provisions of this chapter

related to the imposition, administration, and collection of taxes and fees imposed

pursuant to KRS 91A.080. At least once each year, the council shall review the

criteria for verification of risk location systems or programs established by the

Department of Insurance under KRS 91A.0806 and make recommendations for

updating and improving the verification criteria.
KRS § 417.110 — KY Code / Title XXXVII / Chapter 417 / Section 417.110
417.110 Witnesses, subpoenas and depositions
Status: in_force

417.110 Witnesses, subpoenas and depositions.

(1) The arbitrators may issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses and for the

production of books, records, documents and other evidence, and shall have the

power to administer oaths. Subpoenas so issued shall be served and, upon

application to the court by a party or the arbitrators, enforced, in the manner

provided by law for the service and enforcement of subpoenas in a civil action.

(2) On application of a party and for use as evidence, the arbitrators may permit a

deposition to be taken, in the manner and upon the terms designated by the

arbitrators, of a witness who cannot be subpoenaed or is unable to attend the

hearing.

(3) All provisions of law compelling a person under subpoena to testify are applicable.

(4) Fees for attendance as a witness shall be the same as for a witness in the Circuit

Court.
KRS § 416.650 — KY Code / Title XXXVII / Chapter 416 / Section 416.650
416.650 Proceedings governed by Rules of Civil Procedure
Status: in_force

416.650 Proceedings governed by Rules of Civil Procedure.

All proceedings under KRS 416.550 to 416.670 shall be governed by the provisions of

the Rules of Civil Procedure except where the provisions of KRS 416.550 to 416.670

specifically or by necessary implication provide otherwise.
KRS § 150.186 — KY Code / Title XII / Chapter 150 / Section 150.186
150.186 Release of hog or pig into the wild prohibited -- Importing, possessing, or transporting wild or feral pig or boar prohibited -- Accidental escape of livestock exempted
Status: in_force

150.186 Release of hog or pig into the wild prohibited -- Importing, possessing, or

transporting wild or feral pig or boar prohibited -- Accidental escape of

livestock exempted.

(1) No person shall release a hog or pig from the family Suidae into the wild.

(2) No person shall import, possess, or transport in Kentucky any wild or feral pig,

Eurasian or Russian boar, or any hybrid of these, whether born in the wild or

captivity.

(3) This section shall not apply to the accidental escape of animals of the porcine

species raised as livestock as defined in KRS 246.010.
KRS § 381.650 — KY Code / Title XXXII / Chapter 381 / Section 381.650
381.650 Enforcement of payment of joint expenses
Status: in_force

381.650 Enforcement of payment of joint expenses.

The collection of indebtedness for liability imposed by KRS 381.640 may be enforced by

a proceeding in a court of equity; and the lands benefited by those who own such

passways will be subjected to a lien for the due portion of such expense that may be

necessarily incurred. Enough of the property of any delinquent owner may be sold by a

proceeding in equity to pay his portion of such assessment.
KRS § 65.220 — KY Code / Title IX / Chapter 65 / Section 65.220
65.220 Purpose of KRS 65.210 to 65.300
Status: in_force

65.220 Purpose of KRS 65.210 to 65.300.

It is the purpose of KRS 65.210 to 65.300 to permit public agencies to make the most

efficient use of their powers by enabling them to cooperate with each other on a basis of

mutual advantage and thereby to provide services and facilities in a manner and pursuant

to forms of governmental organization that will accord best with geographic, economic,

population, and other factors influencing the needs and development of local

communities.
KRS § 37.990 — KY Code / Title V / Chapter 37 / Section 37.990
37.990 Penalty
Status: in_force

37.990 Penalty.

Any person, other than a member of the Kentucky active militia, who shall wear any

uniform or insignia or badge duly authorized as a designation of an officer or an enlisted

man of the Kentucky active militia, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon

conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars ($10) nor more than one

hundred dollars ($100).
KRS § 522.020 — KY Code / Title L / Chapter 522 / Section 522.020
522.020 Official misconduct in the first degree
Status: in_force

522.020 Official misconduct in the first degree.

(1) A public servant is guilty of official misconduct in the first degree when, with intent

to obtain or confer a benefit or to injure another person or to deprive another person

of a benefit, he knowingly:

(a) Commits an act relating to his office which constitutes an unauthorized

exercise of his official functions; or

(b) Refrains from performing a duty imposed upon him by law or clearly inherent

in the nature of his office; or

(c) Violates any statute or lawfully adopted rule or regulation relating to his

office.

(2) Official misconduct in the first degree is a Class A misdemeanor.