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KRS § 423.400 — KY Code / Title XXXVIII / Chapter 423 / Section 423.400
423.400 Electronic database of notaries public -- County clerk to record filing and oath
Status: in_force

423.400 Electronic database of notaries public -- County clerk to record filing and

oath.

(1) The Secretary of State shall maintain an electronic database of notaries public:

(a) Through which a person may verify the authority of a notary public to perform

notarial acts; and

(b) Which indicates whether a notary public has registered with the Secretary of

State in order to perform notarial acts on electronic records or to act as an

online notary public.

(2) Each county clerk who files a notary public's assurance and administers the oath of

office to a notary public shall promptly record the fact and date in the database

described in subsection (1) of this section.
KRS § 42.630 — KY Code / Title VI / Chapter 42 / Section 42.630
42.630 Legislative findings
Status: in_force

42.630 Legislative findings.

The General Assembly finds and declares that:

(1) Much of the Commonwealth's information is geographically referenced and may be

presented through geographic information systems;

(2) Geographic information systems allow for the exchange of information between

levels of government and facilitate the management of the Commonwealth's natural,

human, cultural, and economic resources;

(3) There is a need to reduce redundancy in data-collection and development efforts, to

coordinate the various activities in geographic information systems, and to share

geographic information system resources and expertise to maximize the

Commonwealth's investment in geographic information systems technology;

(4) Considerations of cost and the need for the transfer of information among agencies

of state government in the most timely and useful form possible require a uniform

policy and coordinated approach for the use of geographic information systems;

(5) It is the policy of the Commonwealth of Kentucky to coordinate and direct the use

of geographic information resources and technologies to provide the most cost-

effective and useful retrieval of information by its elected and appointed officials.
KRS § 158.4418 — KY Code / Title XIII / Chapter 158 / Section 158.4418
158.4418 Annual report on trauma-informed approach plans and school-based mental health services -- Model interagency agreements
Status: in_force

158.4418 Annual report on trauma-informed approach plans and school-based

mental health services -- Model interagency agreements.

(1) The Kentucky Department of Education shall annually provide to the Kentucky

Board of Education and the Legislative Research Commission for referral to the

Interim Joint Committee on Education a summary of the data gathered pursuant to

subsection (2)(a) to (c) of this section.

(2) The department shall:

(a) Collect the plans for a trauma-informed approach required by KRS

158.4416(5);

(b) Compile information from the 2020-2021 school year and each year thereafter

regarding Medicaid billing for school-based mental health services provided

by school-based or contracted mental health services providers;

(c) Compile and monitor the number and types of mental health services

providers who are providing services in schools and the progress being made

toward reaching the goal specified in KRS 158.4416(3)(a); and

(d) Coordinate technical assistance, professional development, and evidence-

based training of school staff on childhood trauma-related experiences.

(3) The department shall collaborate with the Center for School Safety to develop

model interagency agreements between local school districts and other local public

agencies, including but not limited to health departments, departments of social

services, mental health agencies, and courts, in order to provide cooperative

services and sharing of costs for services to students who are at risk of academic

failure, at risk of mental health crises, at risk of participation in juvenile crime, or

who have been expelled from the school district.
KRS § 141.518 — KY Code / Title XI / Chapter 141 / Section 141.518
141.518 Account-granting organization system of payment to education service providers -- Payments to an education opportunity account -- Approval of education service providers. (See LRC Note below)
Status: in_force

141.518 Account-granting organization system of payment to education service

providers -- Payments to an education opportunity account -- Approval of

education service providers. (See LRC Note below)

(1) (a) Each AGO shall implement a commercially viable, cost-effective, and parent-

friendly system for payment of services from EOAs to education service

providers.

(b) The AGO shall not adopt a system that relies exclusively on requiring parents

to be reimbursed for out-of-pocket expenses, but shall provide maximum

flexibility to parents by facilitating direct payments to education service

providers or requests for preapproval of and reimbursements for qualifying

expenses.

(c) An AGO may contract with private financial management firms or other

organizations to develop the payment system.

(2) An AGO may contract with private financial management firms or other

organizations to maintain records and process transactions of the EOAs.

(3) If funding is available, an AGO shall continue making payments into an EOA until:

(a) The parent does not renew the EOA;

(b) The AGO determines that the EOA student’s family income has increased

above two hundred fifty percent (250%) of the amount of household income

necessary to establish eligibility for reduced-price meals based on size of

household as determined annually by the United States Department of

Agriculture applicable to the Commonwealth, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. secs.

1751 to 1789;

(c) The AGO determines that there was substantial misuse of the funds in the

EOA; or

(d) The EOA student receives a high school diploma or equivalency certificate.

(4) Each AGO shall establish a process for approving education service providers.

(5) An AGO may approve education service providers on their own initiative, at the

request of parents, or upon request from prospective education service providers.
KRS § 65.150 — KY Code / Title IX / Chapter 65 / Section 65.150
65.150 Expenditure of funds for liability or property insurance
Status: in_force

65.150 Expenditure of funds for liability or property insurance.

(1) A county or city or urban-county government and any board, commission, agency or

authority of a county, city or urban-county government may expend funds necessary

to insure any of its employees, officials and property against any liability or property

damage arising out of an act or omission committed in the scope and course of

performing legal duties.

(2) A county fee officer and his deputies and assistants may be insured pursuant to

subsection (1) of this section, or the officer may expend excess fees to insure

himself and his deputies and assistants against any liability arising out of an act or

omission committed in the scope and course of performing legal duties.

(3) Any parties eligible to expend funds for insurance pursuant to this section may

associate, pursuant to KRS 65.210 to 65.300, for the purpose of insuring themselves

against any liability or property damage.

(4) An association of governmental units formed for the purpose of providing insurance

to the participating members may act on behalf of and with the approval of the

participating governmental units to borrow money and issue revenue bonds to fund

the costs of providing the insurance. Revenue bonds issued pursuant to the authority

granted in this subsection shall be issued in accordance with KRS 65.270.
KRS § 319C.040 — KY Code / Title XXVI / Chapter 319C / Section 319C.040
319C.040 Meetings of board -- Quorum -- Employees -- Executive secretary to give bond and manage moneys
Status: in_force

319C.040 Meetings of board -- Quorum -- Employees -- Executive secretary to give

bond and manage moneys.

(1) The board shall meet at least twice annually and may meet at such other times as

necessary to complete the business required. A majority of the members of the

board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

(2) The board may employ an executive secretary and such clerical or other assistants

as are necessary for the performance of its work and may make expenditures of its

funds for any purpose which in the opinion of the board is necessary for proper

performance of its duties, including compensation of the executive secretary and the

premium on his or her bond.

(3) The executive secretary or any other person so designated by the board shall give

bond to the state in such sum as determined by the board, to be approved by the

State Treasurer for the faithful performance of his or her duties. The executive

secretary shall receive and account for all moneys derived under this chapter and

shall pay such moneys to the State Treasurer who shall maintain them in the manner

provided for other such agencies and boards of the Commonwealth.
KRS § 407.5401 — KY Code / Title XXXV / Chapter 407 / Section 407.5401
407.5401 Petition to establish support order
Status: in_force

407.5401 Petition to establish support order.

(1) If a support order entitled to recognition under KRS 407.5101 to 407.5902 has not

been issued, a responding tribunal of this state with personal jurisdiction over the

parties may issue a support order if:

(a) The individual seeking the order resides outside this state; or

(b) The support enforcement agency seeking the order is located outside this state.

(2) The tribunal may issue a temporary child support order if the tribunal determines

that such an order is appropriate and the individual ordered to pay is:

(a) A presumed father of the child;

(b) Petitioning to have his paternity adjudicated;

(c) Identified as the father of the child through genetic testing;

(d) An alleged father who has declined to submit to genetic testing;

(e) Shown by clear and convincing evidence to be the father of the child;

(f) An acknowledged father as provided by KRS 213.046;

(g) The mother of the child; or

(h) An individual who has been ordered to pay child support in a previous

proceeding and the order has not been reversed or vacated.

(3) Upon finding, after notice and opportunity to be heard, that an obligor owes a duty

of support, the tribunal shall issue a support order directed to the obligor and may

issue other orders pursuant to KRS 407.5305.
KRS § 216.885 — KY Code / Title XVIII / Chapter 216 / Section 216.885
216.885 Requirement of licensing for PPEC center
Status: in_force

216.885 Requirement of licensing for PPEC center.

(1) It is unlawful to operate or maintain a PPEC center without first obtaining a

certificate of need and a license for the PPEC center from the cabinet. The cabinet is

responsible for licensing PPEC centers in accordance with the provisions of KRS

Chapter 216B.

(2) Separate licenses are required for PPEC centers maintained on separate premises,

even though they are operated under the same management. Separate licenses are

not required for separate buildings on the same grounds.

(3) The Cabinet for Health and Family Services may deny, revoke, modify, or suspend

a license in accordance with KRS 216B.105.
KRS § 273.277 — KY Code / Title XXIII / Chapter 273 / Section 273.277
273.277 Procedure for merger
Status: in_force

273.277 Procedure for merger.

Any two (2) or more domestic corporations or a domestic corporation and a limited

liability company may merge into one (1) of such corporations pursuant to a plan of

merger approved in the manner provided in KRS 273.161 to 273.390. Each corporation or

limited liability company shall adopt a plan of merger setting forth:

(1) The names of the corporations or limited liability companies proposing to merge,

and the name of the corporation into which they propose to merge, which is

hereinafter designated as the surviving corporation.

(2) The terms and conditions of the proposed merger.

(3) A statement of any changes in the articles of incorporation of the surviving

corporation to be effected by such merger.

(4) Such other provisions with respect to the proposed merger as are deemed necessary

or desirable.
KRS § 342.075 — KY Code / Title XXVII / Chapter 342 / Section 342.075
342.075 Determination of dependency
Status: in_force

342.075 Determination of dependency.

(1) The following persons shall be presumed to be wholly dependent upon a deceased

employee:

(a) A surviving spouse upon a decedent whom the surviving spouse had not

voluntarily abandoned at the time of the accident, or who having been

abandoned by the decedent has not engaged in such conduct since his

abandonment as would at common law constitute grounds justifying the

abandonment of such wife by her husband or such husband by his wife;

(b) A child or children under the age of sixteen (16) years, or over sixteen (16)

years if incapacitated from wage earning, upon the parent with whom such

child or children are living, or by whom actually supported, or from whom

support is legally required by judgment of a court, at the time of the accident.

(2) In all other cases the relation of dependency in whole or in part shall be determined

in accordance with the facts of each case existing at the time of the accident.

(3) No person shall be considered a dependent in any degree unless he is living in the

household of the employee at the time of the accident, or unless such person bears

to the employee the relation of father, mother, husband, or wife, father-in-law or

mother-in-law, grandfather or grandmother, child or grandchild, or brother or sister

of the whole or half blood and is actually dependent.
KRS § 7.111 — KY Code / Title II / Chapter 7 / Section 7.111
7.111 Right of access to information, when
Status: in_force

7.111 Right of access to information, when.

(1) The Department of Kentucky State Police, Department of Corrections, the

Department of Juvenile Justice, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, and the

Administrative Office of the Courts shall provide access to their databases and the

centralized criminal history record information system and the data contained

therein to other criminal justice agencies, including criminal justice statistical

analysis centers, and to the Legislative Research Commission. The right of access

granted herein shall not include the right to add to, delete, or alter data without

permission of the agency holding the data.

(2) Criminal justice agencies and the Legislative Research Commission shall not make

public information on an individual person's criminal history record where such

record is protected by state or federal law or regulation.

(3) The Legislative Research Commission shall have access to information which does

not identify an individual person when determined by the director of the Legislative

Research Commission to be necessary for a legislative purpose.

(4) The Legislative Research Commission shall have access to individual persons'

criminal history records subject to the following provisions:

(a) Access shall not include information on federal offenses or convictions;

(b) Access shall not include information on out-of-state convictions; and

(c) Requests for the release of the information shall be approved by the

Legislative Research Commission by vote at a meeting of the Commission.
KRS § 146.360 — KY Code / Title XII / Chapter 146 / Section 146.360
146.360 Trespass
Status: in_force

146.360 Trespass.

Nothing in KRS 146.210 to 146.360 shall be construed to confer upon any member of the

public any right to the use of or access to private lands within the boundary of a

designated wild river.
KRS § 367.977 — KY Code / Title XXIX / Chapter 367 / Section 367.977
367.977 Necessary disclosures for rental-purchase agreement
Status: in_force

367.977 Necessary disclosures for rental-purchase agreement.

(1) For each rental-purchase agreement, the lessor shall disclose the following items as

applicable:

(a) A brief description of the leased property, sufficient to identify the property to

the consumer and lessor;

(b) The number, amount, and timing of all lease payments necessary to acquire

ownership of the property;

(c) The maximum amount of all initial and periodic payments and other charges

to acquire ownership of the property pursuant to the ownership provision of

the rental-purchase agreement;

(d) A statement that the consumer will not own the property until the consumer

has made the number of payments and the total of payments necessary to

acquire ownership;

(e) A statement that the total of payments does not include other charges such as

late payment, default, pickup, and reinstatement fees, and that the consumer

should see the contract for an explanation of these charges;

(f) If applicable, a statement that the consumer is responsible for the fair market

value of the property if it is lost, stolen, damaged, or destroyed;

(g) A statement indicating whether the property is new or used; however, a

statement that indicates new property is used is not a violation of KRS

367.976 to 367.985;

(h) A statement of the cash price of the property. If the agreement involves a lease

for five (5) or more items, a statement of the aggregate cash price of all items

shall satisfy this requirement;

(i) The total of initial payments required to be paid before consummation of the

agreement or delivery of the property, whichever is later;

(j) A statement clearly summarizing the terms of the consumer's options to

purchase;

(k) A statement identifying the party responsible for maintaining or servicing the

property while it is being leased, together with the description of that

responsibility and a statement that, if any part of a manufacturer's express

warranty covers the leased property at the time the consumer acquires

ownership of the property, it will be transferred to the consumer, if allowed by

the terms of the warranty; and

(l) The date of the transaction and the identities of the lessor and consumer.

(2) With respect to matters specifically governed by the Federal Consumer Credit

Protection Act, compliance with that act shall satisfy the requirements of this

section.

(3) Subsection (1) of this section shall not apply to a lessor who complies with the

disclosure requirements of Section 182 of the Federal Consumer Credit Protection

Act, 15 U.S.C.A. 1667a, 90 Stat. 250, with respect to a rental-purchase agreement

entered into with a consumer.
KRS § 164.043 — KY Code / Title XIII / Chapter 164 / Section 164.043
164.043 Cancer research institutions matching fund
Status: in_force

164.043 Cancer research institutions matching fund.

(1) There is hereby created in the State Treasury a cancer research matching fund

designated as the "cancer research institutions matching fund." The fund shall be

administered by the Council for Postsecondary Education. For tax periods

beginning on or after June 1, 2005, the one-cent ($0.01) surtax collected under KRS

138.140(1)(c) shall be deposited in the fund and shall be made available for

matching purposes to the following universities for cancer research:

(a) One-half (1/2) of the moneys deposited in the fund shall be made available to

the University of Kentucky; and

(b) One-half (1/2) of the moneys deposited in the fund shall be made available to

the University of Louisville.

(2) All interest earned on moneys in the fund shall be credited to the fund.

(3) Any moneys remaining in the fund at the end of the fiscal year shall lapse to the

general fund.

(4) To receive the funds, the universities shall provide dollar-for-dollar matching funds.

The matching funds shall come from external sources to be eligible for the state

match. External source contributions are those that originate outside the university

and its affiliated corporations. The matching funds shall be newly generated to be

eligible for state match. Newly generated contributions are those received by the

university after April 1, 2005.

(5) Moneys transferred to the fund pursuant to subsection (1) of this section are hereby

appropriated for purposes set forth in this section.

(6) The following funds are not eligible for state match:

(a) Funds received from federal, state, and local government sources; and

(b) General fund and student-derived revenues.
KRS § 15.717 — KY Code / Title III / Chapter 15 / Section 15.717
15.717 Development of prosecutor's manual
Status: in_force

15.717 Development of prosecutor's manual.

The Attorney General, in consultation with legal, victims services, victim advocacy, and

mental health professionals with an expertise in domestic violence, shall develop a

prosecutor's manual for Commonwealth's Attorneys and county attorneys establishing the

policies and procedures for the prosecution of domestic violence related crime. The

manual shall be completed no later than January 1 after July 15, 1996, and revised by July

31 of every even numbered year which follows. The Attorney General shall distribute a

copy of the manual to every Commonwealth's Attorney and county attorney.
KRS § 250.022 — KY Code / Title XXI / Chapter 250 / Section 250.022
250.022 Preemption of local regulation of seeds
Status: in_force

250.022 Preemption of local regulation of seeds.

(1) No city, county, or other political subdivision of the Commonwealth shall adopt or

continue in effect any ordinance, resolution, rule, or regulation regarding the

registration, packaging, labeling, sale, storage, distribution, use, application, or

propagation of seeds as regulated pursuant to KRS 250.021 to 250.111. Any local

legislation in violation of this section is void and unenforceable.

(2) Nothing in this section shall be construed to:

(a) Abrogate the planning and zoning authority granted local government

pursuant to KRS Chapter 100; or

(b) Preempt or limit remedies available under common law or statutes.
KRS § 67C.313 — KY Code / Title IX / Chapter 67C / Section 67C.313
67C.313 Police officers deemed qualified to continue duties and to be permanent employees -- Probationary officers
Status: in_force

67C.313 Police officers deemed qualified to continue duties and to be permanent

employees -- Probationary officers.

(1) All police officers of whatever rank and title of a consolidated local government

police force shall be covered by the provisions of this section, except probationary

officers. All officers of a consolidated local government police force on active duty

or service as of the effective date of an ordinance creating a consolidated local

government police merit system and board, shall be deemed fit and qualified to

continue their respective duties of employment on or for the consolidated local

government police force without examination or further qualification.

(2) All personnel covered by the provisions of this section, except probationary

officers, shall be deemed to be permanent employees subject to their ability to

satisfactorily perform their respective duties and further subject to their good

behavior.

(3) A probationary officer shall not be included in the merit system until that officer has

satisfactorily completed his or her initial probationary period which shall be one (1)

year from his or her sworn date. The one (1) year probationary period may be

extended for up to six (6) months upon showing of just cause by the chief and

approved by the board.

(4) Officers covered by the provisions of KRS 67C.303 and serving promotional

probationary periods shall not be deemed excluded from the merit system during the

promotional probationary periods.