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KRS § 100.205 — KY Code / Title IX / Chapter 100 / Section 100.205
100.205 Identical zoning regulations among cities and counties comprising joint planning unit not required
Status: in_force

100.205 Identical zoning regulations among cities and counties comprising joint

planning unit not required.

Except as provided in KRS 100.137(3), nothing contained in this chapter shall be

construed or implied as requiring the legislative bodies of cities and counties comprising

the same joint planning unit to adopt identical zoning regulations. Nor shall the adoption

or amendment of a zoning regulation by the legislative body of any city or county

contained within a joint planning unit be made contingent on the adoption or amendment

of such zoning regulation by the legislative body of any other city or county within the

planning unit.
KRS § 403.670 — KY Code / Title XXXV / Chapter 403 / Section 403.670
403.670 Authority of court in case of noncompliance
Status: in_force

403.670 Authority of court in case of noncompliance.

(1) If an agreement fails to meet the requirements of KRS 403.644, or a lawyer fails to

comply with KRS 403.660 or 403.662, a court may nonetheless find that the parties

intended to enter into a collaborative law participation agreement if they:

(a) Signed a record indicating an intention to enter into a collaborative law

participation agreement; and

(b) Reasonably believed they were participating in a collaborative law process.

(2) If a court makes the findings specified in subsection (1) of this section, and the

interests of justice require, the court may:

(a) Enforce an agreement evidenced by a record resulting from the process in

which the parties participated;

(b) Apply the disqualification provisions of KRS 403.650, 403.652, and 403.654;

and

(c) Apply a privilege under KRS 403.664.
KRS § 61.815 — KY Code / Title VIII / Chapter 61 / Section 61.815
61.815 Requirements for conducting closed sessions
Status: in_force

61.815 Requirements for conducting closed sessions.

(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, the following requirements

shall be met as a condition for conducting closed sessions authorized by KRS

61.810:

(a) Notice shall be given in regular open meeting of the general nature of the

business to be discussed in closed session, the reason for the closed session,

and the specific provision of KRS 61.810 authorizing the closed session;

(b) Closed sessions may be held only after a motion is made and carried by a

majority vote in open, public session;

(c) No final action may be taken at a closed session; and

(d) No matters may be discussed at a closed session other than those publicly

announced prior to convening the closed session.

(2) Public agencies and activities of public agencies identified in paragraphs (a), (c),

(d), (e), (f), but only so far as (f) relates to students, (g), (h), (i), (j), (k), (l), and (m)

of subsection (1) of KRS 61.810 shall be excluded from the requirements of

subsection (1) of this section.
KRS § 103.195 — KY Code / Title IX / Chapter 103 / Section 103.195
103.195 Issuance of revenue bonds for housing project outside jurisdictional boundaries
Status: in_force

103.195 Issuance of revenue bonds for housing project outside jurisdictional

boundaries.

After July 12, 2006, no city, county, charter county, urban-county, consolidated local

government, or special district shall issue revenue bonds as provided in this chapter for

any housing project which is located outside the jurisdictional boundaries of the issuing

entity without the express written consent of the elected legislative body of the city,

county, charter county, urban-county, or consolidated local government in which the

housing project will be located.
KRS § 2.080 — KY Code / Title I / Chapter 2 / Section 2.080
2.080 State bird
Status: in_force

2.080 State bird.

The native redbird, commonly known as the Kentucky cardinal (cardinalis), is the official

state bird of Kentucky.
KRS § 311.787 — KY Code / Title XXVI / Chapter 311 / Section 311.787
311.787 Prohibition of certain abortion procedures when the probable gestational age of the unborn child is 11 weeks or greater, except in the case of a medical emergency -- Penalty not to apply to pregnant woman
Status: in_force

311.787 Prohibition of certain abortion procedures when the probable

gestational age of the unborn child is 11 weeks or greater, except in the

case of a medical emergency -- Penalty not to apply to pregnant woman.

(1) As used in this section:

(a) "Bodily dismemberment, crushing, or human vivisection" means a

procedure in which a person, with the purpose of causing the death of an

unborn child, dismembers the living unborn child and extracts portions,

pieces, or limbs of the unborn child from the uterus through the use of

clamps, grasping forceps, tongs, scissors, or a similar instrument that,

through the convergence of two (2) rigid levers, slices, crushes, or grasps,

or performs any combination of those actions on, any portion, piece, or

limb of the unborn child's body to cut or separate the portion, piece, or

limb from the body. The term includes a procedure that is used to cause

the death of an unborn child and in which suction is subsequently used to

extract portions, pieces, or limbs of the unborn child after the unborn

child's death;

(b) "Medical emergency" has the same meaning as in KRS 311.720;

(c) "Probable gestational age" has the same meaning as in KRS 311.720;

and

(d) "Unborn child" has the same meaning as in KRS 311.781.

(2) No person shall intentionally perform or induce or attempt to perform or induce

an abortion on a pregnant woman:

(a) That will result in the bodily dismemberment, crushing, or human

vivisection of the unborn child; and

(b) When the probable gestational age of the unborn child is eleven (11)

weeks or greater;

except in the case of a medical emergency.

(3) A pregnant woman on whom an abortion is performed or induced or attempted

to be performed or induced in violation of subsection (2) of this section is not

guilty of violating subsection (2) of this section or of attempting to commit,

conspiring to commit, or complicity in committing a violation of subsection (2) of

this section.
KRS § 143A.100 — KY Code / Title XI / Chapter 143A / Section 143A.100
143A.100 Audit -- Additional assessment -- Determination of liability when business discontinued -- Statute of limitations
Status: in_force

143A.100 Audit -- Additional assessment -- Determination of liability when

business discontinued -- Statute of limitations.

(1) As soon as practicable after each return is received, the department shall examine

and audit it. If the amount of tax computed by the department is greater than the

amount returned by the taxpayer, the excess shall be assessed by the department

within four (4) years from the date the return was filed, except as provided in

subsection (4) of this section and except that in the case of a failure to file a return

or of a fraudulent return the excess may be assessed at any time. A notice of such

assessment shall be mailed to the taxpayer. The time herein provided may be

extended by agreement between the taxpayer and the department.

(2) For the purpose of subsections (1) and (4) of this section, a return filed before the

last day prescribed by law for the filing thereof shall be considered as filed on such

last day.

(3) When a business is discontinued, a determination may be made at any time

thereafter within the periods specified in subsection (1) of this section as to liability

arising out of that business, irrespective of whether the determination is issued prior

to the due date of the liability as otherwise specified in KRS 143A.080.

(4) Notwithstanding the four (4) year time limitation of subsection (1) of this section, in

the case of a return where the tax computed by the department is greater by twenty-

five percent (25%) or more than the amount returned by the taxpayer, the excess

shall be assessed by the department within six (6) years from the date the return was

filed.
KRS § 352.170 — KY Code / Title XXVIII / Chapter 352 / Section 352.170
352.170 Approved electric lamps and multigas detectors required -- Unauthorized devices for making lights and fires forbidden
Status: in_force

352.170 Approved electric lamps and multigas detectors required -- Unauthorized

devices for making lights and fires forbidden.

(1) All underground mines shall be worked exclusively by the use of approved electric

lamps for personal lighting.

(2) A mine operator shall provide an MSHA-approved, handheld, multigas detector that

can measure methane, oxygen, and carbon monoxide to each group of two (2) or

more miners working in close proximity of each other underground, the foreman,

fireboss, and to each person who works alone, such as pumpers, examiners, and

outby miners. The mine operator shall make available one (1) multigas detector at

the working face for use by any miner working on the section. Miners shall be

trained in the proper use and calibration of the multigas detectors and shall

document that the training has been provided. Signs shall be prominently posted at

places miners gather with instructions on the proper use of multi-gas detectors.

(3) No person shall at any time carry into any mine any intoxicants. No person shall at

any time enter any underground mine with matches, lighters, pipes, cigars,

cigarettes, or any device for making lights or fire not authorized or approved,

including but not limited to electronic cigarettes, cigars, or any component that

heats liquids or other material to produce vapor. The licensee shall at frequent

intervals search, or cause to be searched, any person entering or about to enter the

mine or inside the mine, to prevent the person from taking, carrying, or using the

articles therein.
KRS § 189.224 — KY Code / Title XVI / Chapter 189 / Section 189.224
189.224 Permitting unlawful operation of a motor vehicle prohibited
Status: in_force

189.224 Permitting unlawful operation of a motor vehicle prohibited.

It is unlawful for the owner, or any other person, employing or otherwise directing the

operator of any vehicle, to require or knowingly to permit the operation of such vehicle

upon a highway in any manner contrary to law.
KRS § 180.160 — KY Code / Title XV / Chapter 180 / Section 180.160
180.160 Department may impose and agree to conditions in sale of bonds -- Duration of contract
Status: in_force

180.160 Department may impose and agree to conditions in sale of bonds --

Duration of contract.

The department may impose such conditions as it deems best in any contract for the sale

of the bonds, and may assent in the contract to reasonable conditions imposed upon the

department in its issuance and delivery of the bonds. The conditions may include a

covenant of the department that within the period the purchasers are required or permitted

to accept and pay for bonds purchased but remaining undelivered, and for six (6) months

thereafter, the department will not advertise for sale, sell or issue any bonds or other

obligations payable from bridge tolls without the purchasers' consent. No such covenant

shall extend beyond the biennial period in which the contract is made.
KRS § 407.5507 — KY Code / Title XXXV / Chapter 407 / Section 407.5507
407.5507 Administrative enforcement of orders
Status: in_force

407.5507 Administrative enforcement of orders.

(1) A party or support enforcement agency seeking to enforce a support order or an

income-withholding order, or both, issued in another state or a foreign support order

may send the documents required for registering the order to a support enforcement

agency of this state.

(2) Upon receipt of the documents, the support enforcement agency, without initially

seeking to register the order, shall consider and, if appropriate, use any

administrative procedure authorized by the law of this state to enforce a support

order or an income-withholding order, or both. If the obligor does not contest

administrative enforcement, the order need not be registered. If the obligor contests

the validity or administrative enforcement of the order, the support enforcement

agency shall register the order pursuant to KRS 407.5101 to 407.5902.
KRS § 234.400 — KY Code / Title XIX / Chapter 234 / Section 234.400
234.400 Department's power to audit licensee's books
Status: in_force

234.400 Department's power to audit licensee's books.

The department may audit the books and records of each licensee and make such other

investigations as it deems necessary to determine whether or not the tax and other

requirements imposed by KRS 234.310 to 234.440 have been met.
KRS § 96.181 — KY Code / Title IX / Chapter 96 / Section 96.181
96.181 Deposit and disbursement of funds
Status: in_force

96.181 Deposit and disbursement of funds.

All moneys derived from the operation of the electric and water plant or any other

operation of the board, shall be deposited to the credit of the board in a separate bank

account or accounts, separate from all other municipal funds, and adequate records shall

be kept of all such receipts and their sources. All withdrawals and payments from said

fund, as well as any other fund which may be created, shall be only pursuant to

appropriate action of the board, and the voucher, warrant or check withdrawing or paying

out any part of said fund shall be signed by the treasurer or chairman of the board.
KRS § 367.46983 — KY Code / Title XXIX / Chapter 367 / Section 367.46983
367.46983 Authority for administrative regulations
Status: in_force

367.46983 Authority for administrative regulations.

The Attorney General may promulgate administrative regulations necessary for the proper

administration and enforcement of KRS 367.46951 to 367.46999.
KRS § 117.389 — KY Code / Title X / Chapter 117 / Section 117.389
117.389 Testing of automatic tabulating equipment prior to election
Status: in_force

117.389 Testing of automatic tabulating equipment prior to election.

On any day after ballots have been certified by the Secretary of State as provided in KRS

118.215, and petitions to allow consolidation of precincts have been approved by the

State Board of Elections as provided in KRS 117.066, but not less than five (5) days prior

to the election day, the county clerk shall have the automatic tabulating equipment tested

in the manner prescribed by the State Board of Elections.
KRS § 96.536 — KY Code / Title IX / Chapter 96 / Section 96.536
96.536 City owned light, water, or gas plant may pay tax equivalent to school district
Status: in_force

96.536 City owned light, water, or gas plant may pay tax equivalent to school

district.

(1) Each board of education of a public school district in which is located the property

or properties of a publicly-owned light, water, or gas plant may each year be paid by

the governing board of the plant from the proceeds of the sale of electrical energy,

water, or gas an amount which shall not exceed that determined by multiplying the

book value of the property or properties of the publicly-owned light, water, or gas

plant as of the beginning of each year by the current tax rate levied for school

purposes for the school district in which the property or properties may be located.

"Book value," as used in this section, means the cost of tangible property plus

additions, extensions, and betterments, less reasonable depreciation or retirement

reserve, and "year" as herein used shall mean the twelve (12) month period ending

June 30. The book value so determined shall be in accordance with standard

accounting practices. No payment may be made under this section except pursuant

to a resolution of the governing board of the plant, adopted by a unanimous vote of

the members of the board.

(2) Amounts for any year, as provided in subsection (1) of this section, shall be paid to

the board of education on or before January 1 of each year.

(3) This section shall not apply to any publicly owned electric plant that is subject to

the provisions of KRS 96.820.

(4) This section shall be construed only as an enabling act and shall in no way confer

upon any board of education of a public school district authority to require this

money to be paid to it.
KRS § 381.090 — KY Code / Title XXXII / Chapter 381 / Section 381.090
381.090 Construction of "estate for life, remainder to heirs."
Status: in_force

381.090 Construction of "estate for life, remainder to heirs."

If any estate is given by deed or will to any person for his life, and after his death to his

heirs, or the heirs of his body, or his issue or descendants, such estate shall be construed

to be an estate for life only in such person, and a remainder in fee simple in his heirs, or

the heirs of his body, or his issue or descendants.
KRS § 363.760 — KY Code / Title XXIX / Chapter 363 / Section 363.760
363.760 Misrepresentation of price prohibited -- Handling of fractions of cent
Status: in_force

363.760 Misrepresentation of price prohibited -- Handling of fractions of cent.

Whenever any commodity or service is sold, or is offered, exposed, or advertised for sale,

by weight, measure, or count, the price shall not be misrepresented, nor shall the price be

represented in any manner calculated or tending to mislead or deceive an actual or

prospective purchaser. Whenever an advertised, posted, or labeled price per unit of

weight, measure, or count includes a fraction of a cent, all elements of the fraction shall

be prominently displayed and the numeral or numerals expressing the fraction shall be

immediately adjacent to, of the same general design and style as, and at least one-half

(1/2) the height and width of the numerals representing the whole cents.
KRS § 154A.150 — KY Code / Title XII / Chapter 154A / Section 154A.150
154A.150 Ticket distribution
Status: in_force

154A.150 Ticket distribution.

Federally insured financial institutions may be utilized by the corporation to distribute

lottery tickets to retailers.
KRS § 371.280 — KY Code / Title XXX / Chapter 371 / Section 371.280
371.280 Written statement of payments and amount unpaid
Status: in_force

371.280 Written statement of payments and amount unpaid.

Upon written request of the buyer, the holder of a retail installment contract shall give or

forward to the buyer a written statement of the dates and amounts of payments and the

total amount unpaid under the contract. A buyer shall be given a written receipt for any

payment when made in cash. Such a statement or receipt shall be given the buyer once

without charge; if any additional statement is requested by the buyer, it shall be supplied

by the holder at a charge not in excess of one dollar ($1) for each additional statement or

receipt so supplied.
KRS § 189.231 — KY Code / Title XVI / Chapter 189 / Section 189.231
189.231 State maintained highways -- Restriction and regulation of traffic
Status: in_force

189.231 State maintained highways -- Restriction and regulation of traffic.

(1) The secretary of transportation may install and maintain traffic control devices upon

state-maintained highways in such manner as is reasonably necessary to promote the

safety and convenience of the traveling public.

(2) The driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of any official traffic control

device applicable thereto unless otherwise directed by a traffic or police officer,

subject to the exceptions granted the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle.

(3) The secretary of transportation may restrict or regulate traffic upon state-maintained

highways in such a manner as is reasonably necessary to promote the safety of the

traveling public.
KRS § 272.030 — KY Code / Title XXIII / Chapter 272 / Section 272.030
272.030 Reserve fund
Status: in_force

272.030 Reserve fund.

By a vote of at least two-thirds (2/3) of the stockholders or members, and after the

payment of a fixed dividend upon its stock, but before the profits are prorated, any

cooperative corporation may create a reserve fund by setting aside each year ten percent

(10%) to twenty-five percent (25%) of the remainder of the net profits of its business.
KRS § 177.999 — KY Code / Title XV / Chapter 177 / Section 177.999
177.999 Prepayment of fines subject to certain conditions
Status: in_force

177.999 Prepayment of fines subject to certain conditions.

(1) All offenses classified as violations under this chapter shall be prepayable except

for:

(a) An offense where evidence of the commission of the offense or another

offense is seized by the officer and the citation is so marked and a court date

set;

(b) The offense may result in a license suspension or revocation;

(c) The offense is cited with another offense that is not prepayable; or

(d) An arrest is made under KRS 431.015.

(2) In the event that a prepayable offense is cited with another offense that is not

prepayable, a court appearance shall be required on all of the offenses as required by

KRS 431.452.
KRS § 311B.080 — KY Code / Title XXVI / Chapter 311B / Section 311B.080
311B.080 Board to recognize and enforce national standards
Status: in_force

311B.080 Board to recognize and enforce national standards.

The board shall recognize and enforce the current rules and regulations, practice

standards, scopes of practice, and ethical standards for the nationally recognized

professional organizations and certifying bodies for technologists and therapists regulated

by this chapter.
KRS § 311.610 — KY Code / Title XXVI / Chapter 311 / Section 311.610
311.610 Deposit and use of fees
Status: in_force

311.610 Deposit and use of fees.

All fees collected by the board under the provisions of KRS 311.550 to 311.620, or the

rules and regulations adopted pursuant thereto, shall be paid into the State Treasury and

credited to a trust and agency fund to be used by the board in defraying the costs and

expenses of the board in the administration of KRS 311.550 to 311.620, including, but

not limited to, salaries and necessary travel expenses. No part of this fund shall revert to

the general funds of this Commonwealth.
KRS § 299.510 — KY Code / Title XXV / Chapter 299 / Section 299.510
299.510 Reinsurance of risks by mutual or assessment and cooperative fire insurance companies
Status: in_force

299.510 Reinsurance of risks by mutual or assessment and cooperative fire

insurance companies.

(1) Any domestic mutual fire insurance company, or any domestic cooperative and

assessment fire insurance company, without amending its charter or articles of

incorporation, may by policy, treaty or other agreement, cede to or accept from any

other insurance company or insurer, insurance or reinsurance upon the whole or any

part of any risk provided such other insurance companies or insurers shall at all

times maintain the full standards of solvency required under laws of this state of

like insurance companies or insurers.

(2) KRS 299.510 to 299.530 shall not empower any such mutual fire insurance

company or any such cooperative and assessment fire insurance company to assume

or carry insurance or reinsurance on any risk or class of risks prohibited in its

charter, articles of incorporation or bylaws.