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KRS § 6.737 — KY Code / Title II / Chapter 6 / Section 6.737
6.737 Prohibition against certain contracts with state agency -- Penalty
Status: in_force

6.737 Prohibition against certain contracts with state agency -- Penalty.

A legislator or candidate by himself, or through others, shall not intentionally undertake,

execute, hold, or enjoy, in whole or in part, any contract, agreement, sale, or purchase of

the value of one hundred dollars ($100) or more per transaction, made, entered into,

awarded, or granted by any state agency, except:

(1) Contracts, agreements, sales, or purchases between a state agency and a business in

which the legislator and his spouse, collectively, own or control an interest of five

percent (5%) or less;

(2) Contracts, agreements, sales, or purchases made or let after public notice and

competitive bidding;

(3) Contracts, agreements, sales, or purchases which are available on similar terms to

members of the legislator's business, occupation, or profession; or

(4) Contracts or agreements entered into prior to the time the legislator became a

candidate.

Violation of this section is a Class D felony, and the court upon conviction may void the

contract, agreement, sale, or purchase violating this provision.
KRS § 189.120 — KY Code / Title XVI / Chapter 189 / Section 189.120
189.120 Safety glass required in motor vehicles
Status: in_force

189.120 Safety glass required in motor vehicles.

(1) No person shall sell any new motor vehicle in this state nor shall any new motor

vehicle be registered in this state unless the vehicle is equipped with safety glass

wherever glass is used in the windshield, doors or windows.

(2) As used in this section, "safety glass" means any product composed of glass, so

manufactured, fabricated, or treated as substantially to prevent shattering and flying

of the glass when struck or broken, or such other or similar product as may be

approved by the Department of Vehicle Regulation.

(3) The Department of Vehicle Regulation shall compile and publish a list of types of

glass by name approved by the department as meeting the requirements of this

section, and shall cause a copy of the list to be furnished to each county clerk. No

motor vehicle which is subject to the provisions of this section shall be registered

unless it is equipped with an approved type of safety glass as required by this

section, and the Department of Vehicle Regulation may prescribe and enforce such

regulations as are necessary to effectuate this section. If the rules of the Interstate

Commerce Commission differ the common carriers may elect to apply the rules of

the Interstate Commerce Commission.
KRS § 80.200 — KY Code / Title IX / Chapter 80 / Section 80.200
80.200 Rentals and tenant selection -- Participation in private and public developments
Status: in_force

80.200 Rentals and tenant selection -- Participation in private and public

developments.

(1) An authority may rent or lease the dwelling accommodations in a housing

development only for housing purposes under this chapter.

(2) An authority may rent or lease to a tenant dwelling accommodations consisting only

of the number of rooms that it deems necessary to provide safe and sanitary

accommodations to the proposed occupants without overcrowding.

(3) The dwellings in any housing development shall be available solely for housing

purposes under this chapter. Income limits for occupancy and rents shall be fixed by

the authority after taking into consideration:

(a) The family size, composition, age, physical disabilities, and other factors

which might affect the rent-paying ability of the family, and

(b) The economic factors which affect the finance and solvency of the housing

development.

(4) The authority shall issue regulations establishing eligibility requirements, consistent

with the purposes and objectives of this section, for admission to and continued

occupancy in its developments.

(5) Nothing contained in subsections (1), (2), (3), and (4) of this section shall limit the

power of an authority to vest in an obligee of the authority the right, in the event of

a default by the authority, to take possession of a housing development or cause the

appointment of a receiver thereof, free from all the restrictions imposed by this

section.

(6) An authority may participate in private and public developments not falling within

the definition of "housing," as set forth in KRS 80.010, except that:

(a) An authority may not purchase, divide, or subdivide land except as provided

in this chapter or as set forth in KRS 80.140; and

(b) An authority may not develop, improve, construct upon, sell, or resell any real

property except as provided in this chapter or as set forth in KRS 80.140.
KRS § 35.285 — KY Code / Title V / Chapter 35 / Section 35.285
35.285 Execution of confinement
Status: in_force

35.285 Execution of confinement.

(1) A sentence of confinement adjudged by a court-martial, whether or not the sentence

includes discharge or dismissal, and whether or not the discharge or dismissal has

been executed, may be carried into execution by confinement in any place

authorized by this code. Persons so confined are subject to the same discipline and

treatment as persons regularly confined or committed to that place.

(2) No place of confinement may require payment of any fee or charge for receiving or

confining a person except as otherwise provided by law.
KRS § 389A.045 — KY Code / Title XXXIII / Chapter 389A / Section 389A.045
389A.045 Short title
Status: in_force

389A.045 Short title.

This chapter shall be titled "Fiducial and Judicial Sales of Real Estate."
KRS § 299.030 — KY Code / Title XXV / Chapter 299 / Section 299.030
299.030 Organization of a domestic company
Status: in_force

299.030 Organization of a domestic company.

(1) Persons desiring to form an organization for the purpose of transacting the business

of life or casualty insurance, or both, upon the assessment or cooperative plan, may

associate together and effect an organization as prescribed in this section.

(2) Any number of persons not less than thirteen (13) may associate to establish such an

insurance company.

(3) In addition to the general requirements for all corporations, the articles of

incorporation shall specify the class of insurance the company proposes to transact;

and on what business plan or principle; the number and amount of agreements for

insurance, if any; and such other facts as may be necessary to explain and make

manifest the object and purposes of the corporation. The words "insurance

company" shall be a part of the title of every such corporation, and also the word

"mutual."

(4) In addition to complying with the provisions of KRS Chapter 271B, the

incorporators shall file a certified copy of the articles of incorporation in the office

of the commissioner.
KRS § 180.170 — KY Code / Title XV / Chapter 180 / Section 180.170
180.170 Department may contract to maintain bridges and not to alienate them
Status: in_force

180.170 Department may contract to maintain bridges and not to alienate them.

The department may covenant in connection with any issue of bonds that as long as the

bonds are outstanding it will not sell, mortgage or make any other disposition of the

bridge property for which the bonds are issued and that it will maintain and continuously

operate the bridge or bridges in the project for which the bonds are issued.
KRS § 381.840 — KY Code / Title XXXII / Chapter 381 / Section 381.840
381.840 Individual deeds -- Contents
Status: in_force

381.840 Individual deeds -- Contents.

The deed of each individual unit shall describe such unit by making reference to the

applicable master deed and floor plans required under KRS 381.835, designating the

letter or number or other appropriate designation of the unit, followed by the words "a

condominium unit". Any conveyance of an individual unit shall be deemed to also convey

the undivided interest of the owner in the common elements, both general and limited,

appertaining to said unit without specifically or particularly referring to same.
KRS § 216B.165 — KY Code / Title XVIII / Chapter 216B / Section 216B.165
216B.165 Duty to report quality of care and safety problems -- Investigation and report -- Prohibition against retaliation
Status: in_force

216B.165 Duty to report quality of care and safety problems -- Investigation and

report -- Prohibition against retaliation.

(1) Any agent or employee of a health care facility or service licensed under this

chapter who knows or has reasonable cause to believe that the quality of care of a

patient, patient safety, or the health care facility's or service's safety is in jeopardy

shall make an oral or written report of the problem to the health care facility or

service, and may make it to any appropriate private, public, state, or federal agency.

(2) Any individual in an administrative or supervisory capacity at the health care

facility or service who receives a report under subsection (1) of this section shall

investigate the problem, take appropriate action, and provide a response to the

individual reporting the problem within seven (7) working days.

(3) No health care facility or service licensed under this chapter shall by policy,

contract, procedure, or other formal or informal means subject to reprisal, or

directly or indirectly use, or threaten to use, any authority or influence, in any

manner whatsoever, which tends to discourage, restrain, suppress, dissuade, deter,

prevent, interfere with, coerce, or discriminate against any agent or employee who

in good faith reports, discloses, divulges, or otherwise brings to the attention of the

health care facility or service the circumstances or facts to form the basis of a report

under subsections (1) or (2) of this section. No health care facility or service shall

require any agent or employee to give notice prior to making a report, disclosure, or

divulgence under subsections (1) or (2) of this section.

(4) All reports, investigations, and action taken subject to this chapter shall be

conducted in a manner that protects and maintains the confidentiality of patients and

personnel and preserves the integrity of data, information, and medical records.

(5) All health care facilities and services licensed under this chapter shall, as a

condition of licensure, abide by the terms of KRS 216B.155 and this section.

(6) No agent or employee of a health care facility or service shall file a report under

subsection (1) or (2) of this section in bad faith and shall have a reasonable basis for

filing a report.
KRS § 65.580 — KY Code / Title IX / Chapter 65 / Section 65.580
65.580 City or county may appropriate funds or levy tax for use of riverport authority
Status: in_force

65.580 City or county may appropriate funds or levy tax for use of riverport

authority.

In order to provide money for the costs of administration, operation, maintenance, and

development and for the purchase, lease, option, or holding of property, or rights therein,

necessary or proper for the purposes contemplated in KRS 65.510 to 65.650, the

legislative body of any governmental unit creating the riverport authority under KRS

65.510 to 65.650 may annually appropriate funds to the authority; or such governmental

unit may make an annual levy to collect a tax on taxable property situated in the

governmental unit for such riverport development. Any appropriation shall be made by

the legislative body in such amounts, in such proportion and upon such terms as the

legislative body may determine. All funds derived from such appropriation or tax shall be

turned over to the riverport authority for the purpose of carrying out the duties and powers

of the authority.
KRS § 15.874 — KY Code / Title III / Chapter 15 / Section 15.874
15.874 Referral to local officials -- Cooperative arrangements for administering
Status: in_force

15.874 Referral to local officials -- Cooperative arrangements for administering.

Where establishment of paternity and enforcement and collection of child support is by

law the responsibility of local officials, the Office of the Attorney General shall refer

cases to the appropriate official for such. The Office of the Attorney General may enter

into cooperative arrangements with appropriate courts and law enforcement officials to

assist the office in administering the program of child support recovery, including the

entering into of financial arrangements with such courts and officials as provided for

under the provisions of federal law and regulations and any other matters of common

concern to such courts or officials and the office.
KRS § 34.340 — KY Code / Title IV / Chapter 34 / Section 34.340
34.340 Majority vote required
Status: in_force

34.340 Majority vote required.

No justice or judge shall be retired for disability or suspended without pay or removed for

good cause except upon a majority vote of members of the Judicial Retirement and

Removal Commission.
KRS § 56.200 — KY Code / Title VII / Chapter 56 / Section 56.200
56.200 Actual settler -- Preemption right
Status: in_force

56.200 Actual settler -- Preemption right.

An actual settler on any vacant and unappropriated land has a preemption right to any

number of acres, not exceeding one hundred (100), to be laid-off as nearly as possible in a

square, his improvements in the center. Before any other person shall locate the same

land, three (3) months' notice of intention to do so must be given to the actual settler,

describing the land intended to be taken up or appropriated. If the actual settler does not,

within three (3) months from the giving of such notice, have the land entered and

surveyed preparatory to obtaining a patent for it, the person giving the notice may enter

and survey the land and proceed to obtain the patent.
KRS § 335B.100 — KY Code / Title XXVI / Chapter 335B / Section 335B.100
335B.100 Purpose of KRS 335B.080 to 335B.100
Status: in_force

335B.100 Purpose of KRS 335B.080 to 335B.100.

The purpose of KRS 335B.080 to 335B.100 is to ensure that hard-working Americans

keep their occupational licenses while struggling to pay off student loan debt, keeping

them out of welfare, out of poverty, and in the workforce.
KRS § 178.400 — KY Code / Title XV / Chapter 178 / Section 178.400
178.400 Definitions for KRS 178.405 to 178.425
Status: in_force

178.400 Definitions for KRS 178.405 to 178.425.

As used in KRS 178.405 to 178.425, "general public" means any person in addition to an

owner, agent, or tenant of property that abuts any road, street, or highway.
KRS § 510.070 — KY Code / Title L / Chapter 510 / Section 510.070
510.070 Sodomy in the first degree
Status: in_force

510.070 Sodomy in the first degree.

(1) A person is guilty of sodomy in the first degree when:

(a) He engages in deviate sexual intercourse with another person by forcible

compulsion; or

(b) He engages in deviate sexual intercourse with another person who is incapable

of consent because he:

1. Is physically helpless; or

2. Is less than twelve (12) years old.

(2) Sodomy in the first degree is a Class B felony unless the victim is under twelve (12)

years old or receives a serious physical injury in which case it is a Class A felony.
KRS § 249.005 — KY Code / Title XXI / Chapter 249 / Section 249.005
249.005 Purpose of group of sections within chapter
Status: in_force

249.005 Purpose of group of sections within chapter.

The purpose of this section, KRS 249.010, 249.020, 249.030, 249.040, 249.050, 249.060,

249.070, 249.090, 249.100, 249.101, 249.102, 249.103, 249.104, and 249.105 is to

prevent the introduction and dissemination within this Commonwealth of insect pests,

plant diseases, and weeds and to provide for their repression and control.
KRS § 76.315 — KY Code / Title IX / Chapter 76 / Section 76.315
76.315 Sewer construction district commissioners -- Appointment, terms, removal -- Officers
Status: in_force

76.315 Sewer construction district commissioners -- Appointment, terms, removal -

- Officers.

(1) If the county judge/executive orders such district established, the county

judge/executive shall, with the approval of the fiscal court, appoint three (3)

commissioners, from among the residents of the sewer construction district. One (1)

of the commissioners shall be appointed for a term of two (2) years, one (1) for a

term of three (3) years and one (1) for a term of four (4) years from the date of first

appointment. Upon expiration of the term of office of each of these commissioners,

the county judge/executive shall, with the approval of the fiscal court, appoint a

commissioner to succeed him, to serve for a term of four (4) years. The

commissioners shall elect a chairman, a secretary and a treasurer.

(2) A commissioner may be removed from office as provided by KRS 65.007.
KRS § 391.245 — KY Code / Title XXXIV / Chapter 391 / Section 391.245
391.245 Acts of married persons
Status: in_force

391.245 Acts of married persons.

KRS 391.210 to 391.260 does not prevent married persons from severing or altering their

interests in property to which KRS 391.210 to 391.260 applies.
KRS § 186.630 — KY Code / Title XVI / Chapter 186 / Section 186.630
186.630 Renting a motor vehicle to another
Status: in_force

186.630 Renting a motor vehicle to another.

(1) No person shall rent a motor vehicle to any other person if the latter is not licensed,

unless he is a nonresident whose home state or country does not require that an

operator be licensed.

(2) No person shall rent a motor vehicle to another until he has inspected the operator's

license of the person to whom the vehicle is to be rented and compared and verified

the signature on the license with the signature of that person written in his presence.

(3) Every person renting a motor vehicle to another shall keep a record of the

registration number of the motor vehicle rented, the name and address of the person

to whom the vehicle is rented, the number of his license and the date and place of

issuance of his license. That record shall be open to inspection by any police officer

or employee of the cabinet.

(4) This section shall not apply to peer-to-peer car sharing as defined in KRS 365.520.
KRS § 250.372 — KY Code / Title XXI / Chapter 250 / Section 250.372
250.372 Preemption of local legislation regulating fertilizer
Status: in_force

250.372 Preemption of local legislation regulating fertilizer.

(1) No city, town, 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, and application

of fertilizers regulated pursuant to KRS 250.371. Local legislation in violation of

this section is void and unenforceable.

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

(a) Abrogate any authority afforded by the state statutes to any program cabinet

established under KRS Chapter 12 or any state or federal mandated hazardous

materials regulations or fire safety codes and comprehensive hazardous

materials management program;

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

pursuant to KRS Chapter 100; or

(c) Waive any reporting requirement established by state or federal law or

regulation.
KRS § 171.812 — KY Code / Title XIV / Chapter 171 / Section 171.812
171.812 Underground Railroad initiative
Status: in_force

171.812 Underground Railroad initiative.

The commission shall coordinate Kentucky's Underground Railroad initiative in

accordance with KRS 171.805. The commission's duties as they relate to this

initiative shall include but not be limited to the following:

(1) Undertake a comprehensive statewide inventory of historic sites related to the

Underground Railroad, and implement a master plan for site protection and

development;

(2) Encourage and assist the state preservation officer within the Kentucky

Heritage Council to nominate significant historical sites of the Kentucky

Underground Railroad to the national and state registers of historic places;

(3) Develop and operate, in conjunction with the Tourism, Arts and Heritage

Cabinet, a program of public information, education, and promotion of the

history of the Underground Railroad in Kentucky, to include but not be limited

to implementing and maintaining a Web site connected to the Tourism, Arts

and Heritage Cabinet;

(4) Coordinate with local, state, and federal authorities in project planning that may

affect Underground Railroad sites in Kentucky and neighboring states;

(5) Present to the secretary of the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet an annual

report and plan for future action; and

(6) Pursue public and private funds to carry out the duties set forth in this section.
KRS § 2.103 — KY Code / Title I / Chapter 2 / Section 2.103
2.103 State musical instrument
Status: in_force

2.103 State musical instrument.

The Appalachian dulcimer is named and designated as the official musical instrument of

Kentucky.
KRS § 36.477 — KY Code / Title V / Chapter 36 / Section 36.477
36.477 Kentucky National Guard Adoption Assistance Program
Status: in_force

36.477 Kentucky National Guard Adoption Assistance Program.

(1) There is hereby established the Kentucky National Guard Adoption Assistance

Program to be administered by the Kentucky Department of Military Affairs.

(2) Any current or former member of the Kentucky National Guard who finalizes a

legal adoption procedure for the adoption of a child shall be eligible to receive

reimbursement from the military family assistance trust fund as provided in KRS

36.474 for actual costs associated with the adoption of the child, including a child

with special needs. For the purposes of this section, a child with special needs

means the same as defined in KRS 199.555(1).

(3) The eligible current or former member of the Kentucky National Guard shall

receive:

(a) Up to seven thousand dollars ($7,000) in unreimbursed direct costs related to

the adoption of a child with special needs; or

(b) Up to five thousand dollars ($5,000) in unreimbursed direct costs related to

the adoption of any other child.

(4) Unreimbursed direct costs related to the adoption of a child with special needs or

other child shall include:

(a) Licensed adoption agency fees;

(b) Legal fees;

(c) Medical costs;

(d) Court costs; and

(e) Other fees or costs associated with the child adoption in accordance with state

and federal law and after review and approval by the court at the finalization

of the adoption.

(5) Application for financial assistance shall be made by submitting a completed

Kentucky National Guard adoption assistance application to the adjutant general

along with documentary evidence of:

(a) Finalization of the adoption; and

(b) Certification by the secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services

that the adopted child is a child with special needs, if reimbursement for

special needs adoption is sought.

(6) If both adoptive parents are current or former members of the Kentucky National

Guard, the application for financial assistance shall be made jointly and the amount

of reimbursement shall be limited to that specified in this section.

(7) Upon approval of the application for financial assistance, the adjutant general shall

dispense funds from the military family assistance trust fund to the eligible

applicant.

(8) The Department of Military Affairs shall promulgate administrative regulations in

accordance with KRS Chapter 13A to carry out the provisions of this section.
KRS § 525.015 — KY Code / Title L / Chapter 525 / Section 525.015
525.015 Obstructing an emergency responder
Status: in_force

525.015 Obstructing an emergency responder.

(1) As used in this section, "emergency responder" means state or local law

enforcement personnel, fire department personnel, corrections officers, and

emergency medical personnel and those contracted for official use by emergency

responders.

(2) No person shall intentionally obstruct or disrupt an emergency responder from

performing his or her official duties.

(3) Obstructing an emergency responder is a violation for a first offense, and a Class B

misdemeanor for a second or subsequent offense.