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KRS § 7.131 — KY Code / Title II / Chapter 7 / Section 7.131
7.131 Official version of the Kentucky Revised Statutes
Status: in_force

7.131 Official version of the Kentucky Revised Statutes.

(1) The Legislative Research Commission shall maintain the official version of the

Kentucky Revised Statutes in an electronic database that shall be used in bill

drafting for the Kentucky General Assembly and made available to the public as

provided by KRS 7.500.

(2) The official version of the Kentucky Revised Statutes shall contain all permanent

laws of a general nature that are in force in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

(3) In maintaining the official version of the Kentucky Revised Statutes, the

Commission may omit all laws of a private, local, or temporary nature, including

laws for the appropriation of money, and memorials and joint and concurrent

resolutions. The Commission shall omit the titles and enacting clauses of the several

acts as well as repealing, emergency, and severability clauses.
KRS § 45A.182 — KY Code / Title VI / Chapter 45A / Section 45A.182
45A.182 Selection committee procedures to apply when capital project is to be constructed utilizing the design-build method -- Cancellation or rejection of requests or proposals
Status: in_force

45A.182 Selection committee procedures to apply when capital project is to be

constructed utilizing the design-build method -- Cancellation or rejection of

requests or proposals.

(1) When a capital project is to be constructed utilizing the design-build method in

accordance with KRS 45A.180, a process parallel to the selection committee

procedures established in KRS 45A.810 shall apply when procuring a design-build

team and shall incorporate the following:

(a) The evaluation process may include a multiple phased proposal that is based

on qualifications, experience, technical requirements, guaranteed maximum

price, and other criteria as set forth in the request for proposal. The guaranteed

maximum price component shall be submitted by the offeror independently of

other documents and shall be held by the executive director of the Office of

Facility Development and Efficiency.

(b) Each evaluator shall independently score each phase and indicate a total score

for all evaluation factors as set forth in the request for proposal.

(c) Final phase proposals from the offerors on the short list shall be evaluated and

scored by the evaluation committee members who shall not have knowledge

of the guaranteed maximum price component. Each evaluator shall

independently score the final phase proposals and indicate a total score. A

total average score shall be calculated for each offeror. Then each offeror's

respective score for the guaranteed maximum price and any reciprocal

preference for resident bidders required under KRS 45A.494 shall be added.

The offeror with the highest point total in the final phase shall receive the

contract award unless the guaranteed maximum price proposal is in excess of

the authorized budget. If two (2) or more of the offerors achieve the same

highest point total at the end of the final phase scoring, the purchasing officer

shall request best-and-final proposals from each offeror.

(d) If the guaranteed maximum price of the offeror with the highest point total in

the final phase is greater than the amount of funds identified in the request for

proposal, then competitive negotiations may be conducted with the offerors

under the following restrictions:

1. If discussion pertaining to the revision of the specifications or quantities

are held, the offerors shall be afforded an opportunity to take part in

such discussions.

2. Written revisions of the specifications shall be made available to each of

the offerors and shall provide for an expeditious response.

3. Information derived from revised maximum guaranteed price proposals

shall not be disclosed to competing offerors.

(2) A request for proposal or other solicitation may be canceled, or all proposals may be

rejected, if it is determined in writing that such action is taken in the best interest of

the Commonwealth and approved by the purchasing officer.
KRS § 67A.650 — KY Code / Title IX / Chapter 67A / Section 67A.650
67A.650 Change in form of government, class, or other status not to affect coverage
Status: in_force

67A.650 Change in form of government, class, or other status not to affect

coverage.

Any government covered by KRS 67A.360 to 67A.690, which may subsequently change

its form of government or its class or other status, shall continue to be covered by KRS

67A.360 to 67A.690.
KRS § 116.155 — KY Code / Title X / Chapter 116 / Section 116.155
116.155 Forms for registration -- Information required
Status: in_force

116.155 Forms for registration -- Information required.

All forms pertaining to registration shall be prescribed and furnished by the State Board

of Elections. The registration form shall include the voter's name; date of birth;

membership in a political party, political organization, or political group as defined in

KRS 118.015, or independent status; Social Security number, if any; mailing and

residence addresses, if different; and such other information as the State Board of

Elections may deem necessary. No person shall be denied the right to register because of

the failure to include his Social Security number. All forms which require a voter's

signature shall provide for verification by the signer thereof.
KRS § 2.135 — KY Code / Title I / Chapter 2 / Section 2.135
2.135 Barrier Awareness Day -- Disability Day
Status: in_force

2.135 Barrier Awareness Day -- Disability Day.

(1) May 7 of each year is named and declared to be "Barrier Awareness Day"

throughout the Commonwealth.

(2) August 2 of each year is named and declared to be "Disability Day" throughout the

Commonwealth.
KRS § 381.350 — KY Code / Title XXXII / Chapter 381 / Section 381.350
381.350 Waste by tenant for life or years -- Forfeiture -- Damages
Status: in_force

381.350 Waste by tenant for life or years -- Forfeiture -- Damages.

If any tenant for life or years commits waste during his estate or term, of anything

belonging to the tenement so held, without special written permission to do so, he shall be

subject to an action of waste, shall lose the thing wasted, and pay treble the amount at

which the waste is assessed.
KRS § 31.020 — KY Code / Title IV / Chapter 31 / Section 31.020
31.020 Public advocate -- Qualifications -- Selection -- Term -- Salary -- Staff
Status: in_force

31.020 Public advocate -- Qualifications -- Selection -- Term -- Salary -- Staff.

(1) The Department of Public Advocacy shall consist of the public advocate, deputy

public advocate, general counsel, such assistant public advocates as the public

advocate shall deem necessary, and such secretarial and other personnel as the

public advocate shall deem necessary.

(2) The public advocate shall be appointed by the Governor from a list of three (3)

attorneys submitted to him or her by the Public Advocacy Commission; shall be an

attorney licensed to practice law in Kentucky with at least five (5) years experience

in the practice of law; shall be excepted from the classified service; shall be the

chief administrator of the Department of Public Advocacy and an appointing

authority as that term is defined in KRS 18A.005; and shall serve a term of four (4)

years, which is renewable, unless removed by the Governor. The incumbent public

advocate shall serve until a successor is nominated by the commission and approved

by the Governor. The compensation of the public advocate shall be set by the

provisions of KRS 64.640.

(3) The deputy public advocate shall be an attorney and shall be appointed by the public

advocate and shall serve at his or her pleasure.

(4) The general counsel shall be an attorney and shall be appointed by the public

advocate and shall serve at his or her pleasure. The general counsel shall represent

the interests of the department as directed by the public advocate.

(5) The assistant public advocates shall be attorneys, shall be appointed by the public

advocate, shall be covered by the merit system, and shall not be subject to the

provisions of KRS 12.210.

(6) Secretarial, clerical, and other personnel shall be appointed by the public advocate

and shall be covered by the merit system.
KRS § 131.194 — KY Code / Title XI / Chapter 131 / Section 131.194
131.194 Disposition of fee charged for duplicating records
Status: in_force

131.194 Disposition of fee charged for duplicating records.

All money received by the Department of Revenue, for supplying to persons or agencies

other than state agencies information which is contained in the official files of the

department, shall be promptly deposited with the State Treasurer in the same manner as

provided by law for other deposits. The amount of money so deposited shall be treated as

a reimbursement to the appropriation of the Department of Revenue from which the

disbursements were made for expenses incurred in performing the services authorized by

KRS 131.192.
KRS § 96.700 — KY Code / Title IX / Chapter 96 / Section 96.700
96.700 Power of board to make provisions to secure payment of bonds
Status: in_force

96.700 Power of board to make provisions to secure payment of bonds.

In order to secure the payment of any of the bonds issued pursuant to KRS 96.550 to

96.900, and interest thereon, or in connection with such bonds, the board of any

municipality shall have power as to such bonds, to the extent not inconsistent with the

mandatory provisions of KRS 96.550 to 96.900:

(1) To pledge all or any part of the net revenues derived from sale of electric service;

(2) To provide for the terms, form, registration, exchange, execution and authentication

of any bonds;

(3) To provide for the replacement of lost, destroyed, or mutilated bonds;

(4) To covenant as to the use and disposition of the proceeds from the sale of such

bonds;

(5) To covenant as to the rates and charges of the electric plant;

(6) To redeem such bonds, and to covenant for their redemption and to provide the

terms and conditions thereof;

(7) To covenant and prescribe as to what happenings or occurrences shall constitute

"events of default," and the terms and conditions upon which any or all of such

bonds shall become or may be declared due before maturity and as to the terms and

conditions upon which such declaration and its consequences may be waived;

(8) To covenant as to the rights, liabilities, powers and duties arising upon the breach

by it of any covenant, condition or obligation;

(9) To vest in a trustee or trustees the right to receive all or any part of the net income

and revenue pledged and assigned to, or for the benefit of, the holder or holders of

bonds issued hereunder, and to hold, apply and dispose of the same, and the right to

enforce any covenant made to secure or pay or in relation to the bonds; to execute

and deliver a trust agreement or trust agreements which may set forth the powers

and duties and the remedies available to such trustee or trustees and limiting the

liabilities thereof and describing what occurrences shall constitute "events of

default," and prescribing the terms and conditions upon which such trustee or

trustees or the holder or holders of bonds of any specified amount or percentage

may exercise such rights and enforce any and all such covenants and resort to such

remedies as may be appropriate;

(10) To make covenants other than, and in addition to, the covenants herein authorized

of like or different character, necessary or advisable to effectuate the purpose of

KRS 96.550 to 96.900; and

(11) To execute all instruments necessary or convenient in the exercise of the powers

herein granted or in the performance of its covenants or duties.
KRS § 218A.040 — KY Code / Title XVIII / Chapter 218A / Section 218A.040
218A.040 Criteria for classification under Schedule I
Status: in_force

218A.040 Criteria for classification under Schedule I.

The Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall place a substance in Schedule I if it

finds that the substance:

(1) Has high potential for abuse; and

(2) Has no accepted medical use in treatment in the United States or lacks accepted

safety for use in treatment under medical supervision.
KRS § 68.275 — KY Code / Title IX / Chapter 68 / Section 68.275
68.275 Payment of claims against the county -- Use of standing orders for payment of certain recurrent expenses -- Use of electronic funds transfers
Status: in_force

68.275 Payment of claims against the county -- Use of standing orders for payment

of certain recurrent expenses -- Use of electronic funds transfers.

(1) Claims against the county that are within the amount of line items of the county

budget and arise pursuant to contracts duly authorized by the fiscal court shall be

paid by the county judge/executive by a warrant drawn on the county and co-signed

by the county treasurer.

(2) The county judge/executive shall present all claims to the fiscal court for review

prior to payment and the court, for good cause shown, may order that a claim not be

paid.

(3) The fiscal court may adopt an order, called a standing order, to preapprove the

payment of recurrent monthly payroll and utility expenses and payments to vendors

that regularly provide services to the county. No other expenses shall be

preapproved pursuant to this subsection without the written consent of the state

local finance officer. Notwithstanding KRS 68.020(1), payment of preapproved

expenses may be made by means of electronic funds transfers from an authorized

account of the county without the cosignatures of the county judge/executive and

the county treasurer if approved by the fiscal court in a standing order, and if the

fiscal court has received the payee's prior written consent for the payment of funds

by electronic funds transfer due the payee. All standing orders adopted by the fiscal

court shall be renewed annually and submitted to the state local finance officer by

July 1 of each fiscal year with the submission of the county budget if the fiscal

court wishes to continue the standing order. Otherwise, after July 1, the standing

order shall expire, and no more payments designated in the standing order shall be

preapproved unless a new order is adopted by the fiscal court according to the

provisions of this subsection.
KRS § 425.307 — KY Code / Title XXXIX / Chapter 425 / Section 425.307
425.307 Motion for order of attachment
Status: in_force

425.307 Motion for order of attachment.

(1) Upon filing of the complaint or at any time prior to judgment, the plaintiff may

apply pursuant to this chapter for an order of attachment by filing a written motion

for the order with the court in which the action is brought.

(2) The motion shall be executed under oath and shall include all of the following:

(a) The nature of the plaintiff's claim;

(b) That it is just;

(c) The sum which the plaintiff believes he ought to recover; and

(d) The existence of any of the grounds for an attachment set forth in KRS

425.301 or 425.306.

(3) The order of attachment shall be issued by the clerk upon compliance with KRS

425.301(3) unless the defendant has requested a hearing, in which case a hearing

shall be conducted pursuant to KRS 425.031.
KRS § 171.816 — KY Code / Title XIV / Chapter 171 / Section 171.816
171.816 Duties of Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet relating to history of Underground Railroad in Kentucky -- Annual report
Status: in_force

171.816 Duties of Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet relating to history of

Underground Railroad in Kentucky -- Annual report.

The Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet shall be charged with the purpose of

protecting, preserving, and promoting the history of the Underground Railroad in

Kentucky in accordance with KRS 171.805 and 171.810 to 171.812. The secretary

of the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet shall receive an annual report from the

Kentucky African-American Heritage Commission in accordance with KRS

171.812(5), and shall review and submit the annual report to the Governor and the

Legislative Research Commission for distribution to the appropriate committees.
KRS § 134.830 — KY Code / Title XI / Chapter 134 / Section 134.830
134.830 County clerk to collect ad valorem taxes on motorboats
Status: in_force

134.830 County clerk to collect ad valorem taxes on motorboats.

The collection of ad valorem taxes on motorboats shall be administered in the same

manner and according to the same procedures provided for motor vehicles in KRS

134.800 to 134.820.
KRS § 350.150 — KY Code / Title XXVIII / Chapter 350 / Section 350.150
350.150 Reclamation work by cabinet -- Procedure -- Acceptance of federal and other funds -- Access to land
Status: in_force

350.150 Reclamation work by cabinet -- Procedure -- Acceptance of federal and

other funds -- Access to land.

(1) In the reclamation of land affected by surface coal mining operations for which it

has funds available, the cabinet may avail itself of any services which may be

provided by other state agencies or by agencies of the federal government, and may

compensate them for the services. The cabinet may also receive any federal funds,

state funds, or any other funds for the reclamation of land affected by surface coal

mining operations. The cabinet may cause the reclamation work to be done by its

own employees or by employees of other governmental agencies, soil conservation

districts, or through contracts with qualified persons. The contracts, other than

negotiated contracts awarded pursuant to KRS 350.131(3), shall be awarded to the

lowest responsible bidder upon competitive bids after reasonable advertisement.

The cabinet and any other agency and any contractor under a contract with the

cabinet shall have the right of access to the land affected to carry out the

reclamation.

(2) Any funds available to the cabinet and any public works program (both funds and

services) may be used and expended to reclaim and rehabilitate any lands that have

been subjected to surface coal mining operations that have not been reclaimed and

rehabilitated in accordance with standards set by this chapter or administrative

regulations thereunder and which are not covered by bond to guarantee the

reclamation.

(3) A person or organization, having qualifications acceptable to the cabinet, may post

bond or a cash deposit, in a sum determined by the cabinet, and assume the liability

for carrying out the reclamation plan approved by the cabinet in areas where the

mining operation and any necessary grading and backfilling have been completed.

The cabinet shall then release the bond posted by the permittee for the area.
KRS § 200.460 — KY Code / Title XVII / Chapter 200 / Section 200.460
200.460 Services provided by Office for Children with Special Health Care Needs -- Medical and hospital care -- Expenditures -- Appeal
Status: in_force

200.460 Services provided by Office for Children with Special Health Care Needs -

- Medical and hospital care -- Expenditures -- Appeal.

(1) The Office for Children with Special Health Care Needs shall provide through

contractual agreement, or otherwise, such services as may be necessary to locate,

diagnose, treat, habilitate, or rehabilitate children with disabilities, and may include

any necessary auxiliary services, such as room and board and travel for patients and

parents or parent substitutes.

(2) Children referred to the care of the Office for Children with Special Health Care

Needs for treatment shall be placed under the care of those physicians or surgeons

that the Office for Children with Special Health Care Needs deems qualified and

may be placed in a hospital or home properly equipped to render the necessary

treatment or services required by the child.

(3) The Office for Children with Special Health Care Needs is authorized to make those

expenditures necessary to carry out the provisions of this section and KRS 200.470

to 200.490.

(4) Any administrative appeal of a decision of the office shall be conducted in

accordance with KRS Chapter 13B.
KRS § 211.476 — KY Code / Title XVIII / Chapter 211 / Section 211.476
211.476 Traumatic brain injury trust fund
Status: in_force

211.476 Traumatic brain injury trust fund.

(1) The traumatic brain injury trust fund is created as a separate revolving fund.

(2) The trust fund may receive the proceeds from grants, contributions, appropriations,

and any other moneys that may be made available for the purposes of the trust fund.

(3) Expenditures from the trust fund on behalf of the medical registry created under

KRS 211.474 shall not exceed one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars ($125,000)

for any fiscal year.

(4) Funds unexpended at the close of a fiscal year shall not lapse but shall be carried

forward to the next fiscal year.

(5) Any interest earnings of the trust fund shall become a part of the trust fund and shall

not lapse to the general fund.
KRS § 174.135 — KY Code / Title XV / Chapter 174 / Section 174.135
174.135 Division of Incident Management
Status: in_force

174.135 Division of Incident Management.

The director of the Division of Incident Management within the Department of Highways'

Office of Highway Safety shall be responsible for statewide transportation emergency and

critical incident information and systems control. The director:

(1) Shall be directly responsible and report to the executive director of the Office of

Highway Safety; and

(2) May, with the approval of the executive director, employ the staff necessary to

perform the duties, functions, and responsibilities of the division.
KRS § 186.770 — KY Code / Title XVI / Chapter 186 / Section 186.770
186.770 Use of motor vehicle with automated driving system permissible -- Conditions
Status: in_force

186.770 Use of motor vehicle with automated driving system permissible --

Conditions.

(1) A person may operate a motor vehicle equipped with an automated driving system

capable of performing the entire dynamic driving task if the automated driving

system:

(a) Will achieve a minimal risk condition or issue a request to intervene with the

expectation that the person will respond appropriately to such a request

whenever the automated driving system is not capable of performing the

entire dynamic driving task; and

(b) Is capable of being operated in compliance with KRS 189.285 to 189.450,

unless an exemption has been granted by the Transportation Cabinet.

(2) Nothing in this chapter or KRS Chapter 189 prohibits or restricts a human driver

from operating a fully autonomous vehicle equipped with controls that allow for the

human driver to control all or part of the dynamic driving task.
KRS § 424.170 — KY Code / Title XXXVIII / Chapter 424 / Section 424.170
424.170 Proof of publication
Status: in_force

424.170 Proof of publication.

(1) The affidavit of the publisher or proprietor of a newspaper, stating that an

advertisement has been published in his newspaper and the times it was published,

attached to a copy of the advertisement, constitutes prima facie evidence that the

publication was made as stated in the affidavit.

(2) The affidavit of the person responsible for publishing as described in KRS 424.150,

stating that an advertisement has been delivered by first class mail to each residence

within the publication area, attached to a copy of the advertisement, constitutes

prima facie evidence that the publication was made as stated in the affidavit and that

the expenditure for the cost of postage, all supplies, and reproduction of the

advertisement did not exceed the cost of newspaper publication of the

advertisement.