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KRS § 311.1939 — KY Code / Title XXVI / Chapter 311 / Section 311.1939
311.1939 Sale, purchase procurement, transfer, or distribution of parts for consideration prohibited -- Penalty -- Exemption
Status: in_force

311.1939 Sale, purchase procurement, transfer, or distribution of parts for

consideration prohibited -- Penalty -- Exemption.

(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (4) of this section, a person shall not,

for valuable consideration, knowingly purchase, sell, transfer, or offer to purchase,

sell, or transfer a part for transplantation or therapy if removal of a part from an

individual has occurred, is intended to occur, or after the individual's death.

(2) A for-profit entity shall not engage, directly or indirectly, in the procurement,

transfer, or distribution of any human eye, cornea, eye tissue, corneal tissue, or

portions of eyes.

(3) A person who knowingly violates any of the provisions in this section shall be

imprisoned in the penitentiary for not less than one (1) nor more than five (5) years

or be fined not more than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), or both.

(4) A nonprofit entity may charge a reasonable amount for the removal, processing,

preservation, quality control, storage, transportation, implantation, or disposal of a

part.
KRS § 117A.170 — KY Code / Title X / Chapter 117A / Section 117A.170
117A.170 Injunction and other equitable relief
Status: in_force

117A.170 Injunction and other equitable relief.

A court may issue an injunction or grant other equitable relief appropriate to ensure

substantial compliance with, or enforce, this chapter on application by:

(1) A covered voter alleging a grievance under this chapter; or

(2) An election official in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
KRS § 164.9489 — KY Code / Title XIII / Chapter 164 / Section 164.9489
164.9489 Short title for KRS 164.948 to 164.9489 and KRS 164.993
Status: in_force

164.9489 Short title for KRS 164.948 to 164.9489 and KRS 164.993.

KRS 164.948 to 164.9489 and KRS 164.993 may be cited as the Michael Minger Life

Safety Act.
KRS § 367.979 — KY Code / Title XXIX / Chapter 367 / Section 367.979
367.979 Prohibited provisions
Status: in_force

367.979 Prohibited provisions.

A rental-purchase agreement shall not contain a provision:

(1) Requiring a confession of judgment;

(2) Requiring a garnishment of wages;

(3) Granting authorization to the lessor of a person acting on the lessor's behalf to enter

unlawfully upon the consumer's premises or to commit any breach of the peace in

the repossession of goods;

(4) Requiring the consumer to waive any defense, counterclaim or right of action

against the lessor or a person acting on the lessor's behalf in collection of payment

under the lease or in the repossession of goods; or

(5) Requiring purchase of insurance from the lessor to cover the merchandise.
KRS § 174.130 — KY Code / Title XV / Chapter 174 / Section 174.130
174.130 Cabinet's duty to transmit information concerning abandonment of railroad corridors to Department of Parks and Railtrail Development Office -- Records and maps of railroad lines
Status: in_force

174.130 Cabinet's duty to transmit information concerning abandonment of

railroad corridors to Department of Parks and Railtrail Development Office --

Records and maps of railroad lines.

(1) The Transportation Cabinet, including any agency or other unit of government

attached to the cabinet, shall immediately transmit to the Department of Parks and

to the Commonwealth's Railtrail Development Office in the Department for Local

Government any information received from a railroad or other person having an

ownership interest in a railroad corridor pertaining to a proposed or pending action

or proceeding to obtain federal authority for the regulatory abandonment of that

railroad corridor.

(2) The Transportation Cabinet shall keep a record of railroad lines in the

Commonwealth of Kentucky, including both lines that have been abandoned

through the federal government's regulatory abandonment process and those where

any railroad property interest in the railroad corridor itself has been abandoned

under Kentucky law. The cabinet shall annually publish an updated map showing

the location and as much information as to the status of these lines as practicable.

The record shall include, inasmuch as possible:

(a) A description of the line and its location;

(b) The current or last railroad owner of the line;

(c) The operator of the line;

(d) The addresses and phone numbers for the owners and operators of the lines;

(e) Whether the owner of the line has received authority from the Federal

Government to discontinue service over the line;

(f) Whether the owner of the line has received authority from the Federal

Government to abandon the line;

(g) Whether the owner of the line has consummated any authority granted by the

Federal Government to discontinue service over the line or to abandon the

line;

(h) Whether the line has been railbanked under either federal or state law; and

(i) Any other information the cabinet deems pertinent and useful to the public.
KRS § 12.110 — KY Code / Title III / Chapter 12 / Section 12.110
12.110 Annual and biennial reports
Status: in_force

12.110 Annual and biennial reports.

(1) The Governor shall prepare and submit to the Legislative Research Commission

annual reports of the finances and operations of the state and such other reports as

the General Assembly may prescribe or as the Governor may desire. The head of

each statutory department shall make to the Governor an annual report and may at

any time be required by the Governor to make any special report concerning the

work under his charge, with his observations and recommendations thereon and

pertinent statistics concerning the work of the department, each of which the

Governor shall transmit to the Legislative Research Commission online, with such

comments as the Governor may desire to make. All such annual reports shall

observe the fiscal year of the state as the reporting year, and shall be published only

to the extent ordered in writing by the Governor in accordance with KRS 57.390.

(2) Agencies shall file all annual and biennial reports required by law to be made by

agencies with the Governor, and a copy thereof in the office of the Secretary of

State, which shall be preserved as a public record.
KRS § 424.360 — KY Code / Title XXXVIII / Chapter 424 / Section 424.360
424.360 Invitation to bid on municipal bonds
Status: in_force

424.360 Invitation to bid on municipal bonds.

(1) Except in the case of:

(a) Bonds issued for the purpose of facilitating the construction, renovation, or

purchase of new or existing housing as provided by KRS 58.125; or

(b) Bonds issued and sold pursuant to any section of the Constitution or the

Kentucky Revised Statutes providing for the sale of bonds at a private,

negotiated sale;

no sale of general obligation bonds or revenue bonds of any governmental unit,

political subdivision, or agency thereof shall be made until advertisements for bids

are publicized.

(2) Advertisements for bids may be publicized by:

(a) Newspaper publication in the area constituted by the political subdivision or

governmental unit and published to afford statewide notice; or

(b) Posting a notice of sale to a nationally recognized electronic bidding system.
KRS § 95A.230 — KY Code / Title IX / Chapter 95A / Section 95A.230
95A.230 Requirements for participation in fund
Status: in_force

95A.230 Requirements for participation in fund.

Each local government which meets the following requirements shall be eligible to share

in the distribution of funds from the fund:

(1) Employs one (1) or more firefighters.

(2) Pays every firefighter a minimum annual salary of eight thousand dollars ($8,000).

(3) Maintains the minimum educational requirement of a high school degree, or its

equivalent as determined by the commission, for employment of firefighters on or

after August 1, 1980. All firefighters employed prior to August 1, 1980, shall be

deemed to have met requirements of this subsection.

(4) Requires all firefighters employed on or after July 15, 1982, to successfully

complete a basic training course of four hundred (400) hours duration or a lesser

duration as established by the commission pursuant to KRS 95A.240(5) as

mandated by the commission as to subject matter and number of hours for each

subject, within one (1) year of the date of employment at a school or method

certified or recognized by the commission. The training requirement may be met

through training and educational programs of a local government conducting its

own annual in-service training school certified or recognized by the commission

which may provide a different number of hours of instruction as established in KRS

95A.240.

(5) Requires all firefighters, whether originally employed before or after August 1,

1980, to successfully complete in each calendar year an in-service training program

appropriate to the firefighters rank and responsibility, of one hundred (100) hours

duration or a lesser duration as established by the commission pursuant to KRS

95A.240(5) at a school certified or recognized by the commission. This requirement

shall be waived for the period of time that a professional firefighter is serving on

active duty in the United States Armed Forces. This waiver shall be retroactive for

professional firefighters from the date of September 11, 2001.

(6) Requires compliance with all provisions of law applicable to local firefighters.

(7) Requires compliance with all rules and regulations, appropriate to the size and

location of the local fire department or fire prevention district, issued by the

commission to facilitate the administration of the fund and further the provisions of

KRS 95A.200 to 95A.300.
KRS § 7.132 — KY Code / Title II / Chapter 7 / Section 7.132
7.132 Designation of certified versions of KRS -- Standards -- Distribution to state law library
Status: in_force

7.132 Designation of certified versions of KRS -- Standards -- Distribution to state

law library.

(1) In response to a written request from a publisher, the Commission may designate a

version of the Kentucky Revised Statutes as a certified version if:

(a) The version meets the requirements of KRS 7.134; and

(b) The publisher of the version enters into a written agreement with the

Commission.

(2) The Commission may furnish to the state law library, without cost, on request of the

Chief Justice, a sufficient number of copies of the Kentucky Revised Statutes to

enable the state law librarian to carry out duties imposed on him by law.
KRS § 214.280 — KY Code / Title XVIII / Chapter 214 / Section 214.280
214.280 "Mattress" defined for KRS 214.290 to 214.310
Status: in_force

214.280 Regulation of mattresses -- "Mattress" defined.

As used in KRS 214.290 to 214.310, "mattress" means any mattress, mattress pad or

cushion, stuffed or filled with cotton, wool, hair, upholstered spring, or other soft

material, to be used on a couch or other bed for sleeping or reclining purposes.
KRS § 244.210 — KY Code / Title XX / Chapter 244 / Section 244.210
244.210 Nonbeverage alcohol not to be sold for beverage purposes
Status: in_force

244.210 Nonbeverage alcohol not to be sold for beverage purposes.

No person shall knowingly sell any alcoholic product intended for nonbeverage purposes

under KRS 243.320, under circumstances from which he or she might reasonably deduce

the intention of the purchaser to use it for beverage purposes.
KRS § 96.600 — KY Code / Title IX / Chapter 96 / Section 96.600
96.600 Procedure for condemnation -- Report of commissions -- Jury award -- Procedure when condemnor not a utility
Status: in_force

96.600 Procedure for condemnation -- Report of commissions -- Jury award --

Procedure when condemnor not a utility.

(1) When the board of any municipality authorized to acquire, construct, own or operate

an electric plant under the provisions of KRS 96.550 to 96.900 shall be unable to

contract with the owner of any land, easement, right of way, electric plant, or any

facilities or property needed by such board for its use for the purposes thereof and

desires to exercise the right of eminent domain, the board shall proceed to condemn

the property pursuant to the Eminent Domain Act of Kentucky except that, in lieu of

determining the award to the owners in the manner prescribed in KRS 416.580(1)

the commissioners shall ascertain and determine the value of the property taken; the

value of real estate, tangible personal property, intangible property and franchises, if

any such value is found to exist, shall be determined and stated separately in their

report; and they shall also award damages, if any, resulting to the remainder of the

electric plant or system of the owner, considering the purposes for which the

property is taken, and the amount of said damages, if any, shall be stated separately

in their report. The jury award shall be made in this manner rather than in the

manner prescribed in KRS 416.660(1).

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, when the owner of

any land, easement, right of way or facility to be acquired by exercise of the right of

eminent domain is not a utility, the award to the owners thereof shall be determined

pursuant to the Eminent Domain Act of Kentucky.
KRS § 278.468 — KY Code / Title XXIV / Chapter 278 / Section 278.468
278.468 KRS 278.465 to 278.468 not applicable to certain United States agencies or instrumentalities
Status: in_force

278.468 KRS 278.465 to 278.468 not applicable to certain United States agencies or

instrumentalities.

Nothing in KRS 278.465 to 278.468 shall apply to a United States corporate agency or

instrumentality of the United States government, or a distributor of electric power

primarily supplied by such a corporate agency or instrumentality of the United States

government.
KRS § 141.444 — KY Code / Title XI / Chapter 141 / Section 141.444
141.444 Designation of income tax refund to veterans' program trust fund
Status: in_force

141.444 Designation of income tax refund to veterans' program trust fund.

A taxpayer required to file a return pursuant to KRS 141.180 who is entitled to an income

tax refund and who desires to contribute to the veterans' program trust fund established by

KRS 40.460(2)(b), may designate an amount, not to exceed the amount of the refund, to

be paid to the veterans' program trust fund. The designation shall not increase or decrease

the amount of the income tax liability of a taxpayer, but it shall reduce the income tax

refund of the taxpayer by the amount designated.
KRS § 350.050 — KY Code / Title XXVIII / Chapter 350 / Section 350.050
350.050 Powers of cabinet
Status: in_force

350.050 Powers of cabinet.

The Energy and Environment Cabinet under the supervision of the secretary of the

Energy and Environment Cabinet shall have and exercise the following authority and

powers:

(1) To exercise general supervision and administration and enforcement of this chapter

and all rules and regulations and orders promulgated thereunder;

(2) To encourage and conduct investigations, research, experiments, and

demonstrations, and to collect and disseminate information relating to strip mining

and reclamation of lands and waters affected by strip mining;

(3) To adopt, without hearing, internal procedures with respect to the filing of reports,

the issuance of permits, and other matters of procedure and administration;

(4) To examine and pass upon all plans and specifications submitted by the permit

applicant for the method of operation, backfilling, grading, and for the reclamation

of the area of land affected by his operation;

(5) To make investigations or inspections which may be deemed necessary to insure

compliance with any provision of this chapter;

(6) To order, through personnel of the cabinet, the suspension of any permit for failure

to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter or any regulations adopted

pursuant thereto;

(7) To order, through personnel of the cabinet, the stopping of any operation that is

started without first having secured a permit as required by this chapter.
KRS § 205.900 — KY Code / Title XVII / Chapter 205 / Section 205.900
205.900 Definitions for KRS 205.905 to 205.920
Status: in_force

205.900 Definitions for KRS 205.905 to 205.920.

As used in KRS 205.905 to 205.920:

(1) "Cabinet" means the Cabinet for Health and Family Services.

(2) "Evaluation team" means at least three (3) individuals employed as such by a

qualified agency or organization.

(3) "Personal care assistance services" means services which are required by an adult

with a severe physical disability to achieve greater physical independence and

which include, but are not limited to:

(a) Routine bodily functions, such as bowel or bladder care;

(b) Dressing;

(c) Housecleaning and laundry;

(d) Preparation and consumption of food;

(e) Moving in and out of bed;

(f) Routine bathing;

(g) Ambulation; and

(h) Any other similar activity of daily living.

(4) "Qualified agency or organization" means an agency or organization whose purpose

is to provide services to severely physically disabled adults to enable them to live as

independently as possible and a majority of whose governing board are consumers

of these services. If no qualified agency or organization exists, an agency or

organization may become a qualified provider when consumers of personal care

assistance services are a majority of its advisory council.

(5) "Secretary" means the secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services.

(6) "Severely physically disabled adult" means a person eighteen (18) years of age or

older with permanent or temporary, recurring functional loss of two (2) or more

limbs.
KRS § 309.319 — KY Code / Title XXVI / Chapter 309 / Section 309.319
309.319 Penalty
Status: in_force

309.319 Penalty.

Any person who shall violate or aid in the violation of any of the provisions of KRS

309.301 shall be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.
KRS § 216.320 — KY Code / Title XVIII / Chapter 216 / Section 216.320
216.320 Notification of secretary -- Effect of notification
Status: in_force

216.320 Notification of secretary -- Effect of notification.

Upon the completion of all procedures necessary for the creation of a taxing district as

provided in KRS 65.182, the fiscal court shall notify the secretary and the secretary shall

establish the district within the medical service area in which that county is located, and

shall certify his act to the county judge/executive and county clerk of each county, which

is a part of the district, the state local finance officer and to the Secretary of State. The

district shall then be a taxing district within the meaning of Section 157 of the Kentucky

Constitution for the carrying out of the purposes for which the district was created, and

for executing the powers with which it is vested. The county submitting the resolution to

the secretary shall be a participating county in the district. The remaining counties in the

medical service area may become participating counties upon compliance with the

requirements prescribed in KRS 216.317.
KRS § 501.070 — KY Code / Title L / Chapter 501 / Section 501.070
501.070 Liability -- Ignorance or mistake
Status: in_force

501.070 Liability -- Ignorance or mistake.

(1) A person's ignorance or mistake as to a matter of fact or law does not relieve him of

criminal liability unless:

(a) Such ignorance or mistake negatives the existence of the culpable mental state

required for commission of an offense; or

(b) The statute under which he is charged or a statute related thereto expressly

provides that such ignorance or mistake constitutes a defense or exemption; or

(c) Such ignorance or mistake is of a kind that supports a defense of justification

as defined in this Penal Code.

(2) When ignorance or mistake relieves a person of criminal liability under subsection

(1) but he would be guilty of another offense had the situation been as he supposed

it was, he may be convicted of that other offense.

(3) A person's mistaken belief that his conduct, as a matter of law, does not constitute

an offense does not relieve him of criminal liability, unless such mistaken belief is

actually founded upon an official statement of the law, afterward determined to be

invalid or erroneous, contained in:

(a) A statute or other enactment; or

(b) A judicial decision, opinion or judgment; or

(c) An administrative order or grant of permission; or

(d) An official interpretation of the public officer or body charged by law with

responsibility for the interpretation, administration or enforcement of the law

defining the offense.
KRS § 146.241 — KY Code / Title XII / Chapter 146 / Section 146.241
146.241 Designation of streams in Wild Rivers System
Status: in_force

146.241 Designation of streams in Wild Rivers System.

The streams or segments of streams to be included in this system, being classified by

KRS 146.230, are as follows:

(1) The Cumberland River from Summer Shoals to the backwater of Lake Cumberland;

(2) The Red River from the Ky. 746 bridge to the mouth of Swift Camp Creek. Nothing

in KRS 146.220 to 146.360 shall be construed to prohibit that portion of the Red

River between Peck's Branch and Swift Camp Creek from being used to temporarily

contain flood waters that may be impounded above the normal sustained pool level

of any lake which may be created in the event a dam is constructed on the Red

River near Bowen, Kentucky;

(3) The Rockcastle River from the Ky. 80 bridge to the backwater of Lake Cumberland.

Nothing in KRS 146.220 to 146.360 shall be construed to prohibit or interfere with

the relocating of Ky. 80, including the construction of a bridge at a point

approximately 2.35 miles downstream from the existing Ky. 80 bridge;

(4) The Green River from the eastern boundary of Mammoth Cave National Park

extending downstream and including only that portion of the river within the

Mammoth Cave National Park;

(5) The Big South Fork of the Cumberland River from the Tennessee border to Blue

Herron;

(6) Martins Fork, Cumberland River from Ky. Highway 987 bridge to the eastern

boundary of Cumberland Gap National Park;

(7) Rock Creek from the White Oak Junction bridge to the Kentucky-Tennessee border;

(8) Little South Fork, Cumberland River from the backwater of Lake Cumberland (mile

4.1) to the Kentucky Highway 92 bridge (mile 14.5) in Wayne and McCreary

counties; and

(9) Bad Branch of Poor Fork, Cumberland River from the headwaters on Pine

Mountain to the Ky. 932 bridge, including the entire watershed drained by all

stream segments, except for that portion above a point 0.1 mile below the existing

lake on the easternmost fork.
KRS § 439.356 — KY Code / Title XL / Chapter 439 / Section 439.356
439.356 Final discharge -- Effect
Status: in_force

439.356 Final discharge -- Effect.

After final discharge has been ordered and a certificate issued by the board, or after the

parolee's civil rights have been restored by an act of the Governor, the parolee may not be

held again for a violation of that parole.
KRS § 202C.070 — KY Code / Title XVII / Chapter 202C / Section 202C.070
202C.070 Exclusion of persons unnecessary to hearings
Status: in_force

202C.070 Exclusion of persons unnecessary to hearings.

In a hearing under KRS 202C.030, 202C.040, and 202C.060, the court may exclude

all persons not necessary for the conduct of the hearing.