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KRS § 531.335 — KY Code / Title L / Chapter 531 / Section 531.335
531.335 Possession or viewing of matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor -- Applicability
Status: in_force

531.335 Possession or viewing of matter portraying a sexual performance by a

minor -- Applicability.

(1) A person is guilty of possession or viewing of matter portraying a sexual

performance by a minor when, having knowledge of its content, character, and that

the sexual performance is by a minor, he or she:

(a) Knowingly has in his or her possession or control any matter which visually

depicts an actual sexual performance by a minor person or computer-

generated image of a minor person; or

(b) Intentionally views any matter which visually depicts an actual sexual

performance by a minor person or computer-generated image of a minor

person.

(2) The provisions of subsection (1)(b) of this section:

(a) Shall only apply to the deliberate, purposeful, and voluntary viewing of matter

depicting sexual conduct by a minor person or computer-generated image of a

minor person and not to the accidental or inadvertent viewing of such matter;

(b) Shall not apply to persons viewing the matter in the course of a law

enforcement investigation or criminal or civil litigation involving the matter;

and

(c) Shall not apply to viewing the matter by a minor or the minor's parents or

guardians, or to school administrators investigating violations of subsection

(1)(b) of this section.

(3) Possession or viewing of matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor is:

(a) A Class D felony if the person knows that the minor or computer-generated

image of a minor portrayed is less than eighteen (18) years old at the time of

the sexual performance; and

(b) A Class C felony if the person knows that the minor or computer-generated

image of a minor person portrayed is less than twelve (12) years old at the

time of the sexual performance.
KRS § 431.025 — KY Code / Title XL / Chapter 431 / Section 431.025
431.025 Notice of intention to arrest -- Act of arrest -- Force
Status: in_force

431.025 Notice of intention to arrest -- Act of arrest -- Force.

(1) The person making an arrest shall inform the person about to be arrested of the

intention to arrest him, and of the offense for which he is being arrested.

(2) An arrest is made by placing the person being arrested in restraint, or by his

submission to the custody of the person making the arrest. The submission shall be

in the actual presence of the arrester.

(3) No unnecessary force or violence shall be used in making an arrest.
KRS § 74.075 — KY Code / Title IX / Chapter 74 / Section 74.075
74.075 Establishment of fire protection district by water district
Status: in_force

74.075 Establishment of fire protection district by water district.

The board of commissioners of any legally existing water district created under the

authority of KRS Chapter 74 may have the power to create a fire protection district where

no fire protection district exists by following the procedures of KRS 65.810 and 75.010.
KRS § 109.015 — KY Code / Title IX / Chapter 109 / Section 109.015
109.015 Compliance with KRS 65A.010 to 65A.090
Status: in_force

109.015 Compliance with KRS 65A.010 to 65A.090.

Any board or authority shall comply with the provisions of KRS 65A.010 to 65A.090.
KRS § 516.020 — KY Code / Title L / Chapter 516 / Section 516.020
516.020 Forgery in the first degree
Status: in_force

516.020 Forgery in the first degree.

(1) A person is guilty of forgery in the first degree when, with intent to defraud, deceive

or injure another, he falsely makes, completes or alters a written instrument which is

or purports to be or which is calculated to become or to represent when completed:

(a) Part of an issue of money, stamps, securities or other valuable instruments

issued by a government or governmental agency; or

(b) Part of an issue of stock, bonds or other instruments representing interests in

or claims against a corporate or other organization or its property.

(2) Forgery in the first degree is a Class C felony.
KRS § 173.740 — KY Code / Title XIV / Chapter 173 / Section 173.740
173.740 Expenses of board members -- Employment of relatives -- Conflict of interest
Status: in_force

173.740 Expenses of board members -- Employment of relatives -- Conflict of

interest.

The members of the board shall not receive compensation for their services, but may be

reimbursed for their actual expenses necessarily incurred in the performance of their

duties, upon vouchers duly approved by the board, signed by the secretary and

countersigned by the president. No board shall newly employ as a member of its library

staff any member of the board or any person related closer than a second cousin to any

member of the board. No person is eligible to this office who is directly or indirectly

interested in the sale to the library of books, magazines, supplies, equipment, materials,

insurance, or services for which library funds are expended.
KRS § 189.290 — KY Code / Title XVI / Chapter 189 / Section 189.290
189.290 Operator of vehicle to drive carefully
Status: in_force

189.290 Operator of vehicle to drive carefully.

(1) The operator of any vehicle upon a highway shall operate the vehicle in a careful

manner, with regard for the safety and convenience of pedestrians and other

vehicles upon the highway.

(2) A person shall not willfully operate any vehicle on any highway in such a manner

as to injure the highway.

(3) A person shall not willfully operate any vehicle on any highway in such a manner

as to injure vehicles or equipment located in or near a highway work zone.

(4) A person shall not operate any vehicle in a reckless or negligent manner as to

endanger persons or property in or near a highway, or in or near a highway work

zone.

(5) In addition to any other penalty, an operator who violates subsection (3) or (4) of

this section shall be subject to revocation of his or her operator's license under KRS

186.560.
KRS § 386.492 — KY Code / Title XXXIII / Chapter 386 / Section 386.492
386.492 Disbursement from principal
Status: in_force

386.492 Disbursement from principal.

(1) A trustee shall make the following disbursements from principal:

(a) That portion of the regular compensation of the trustee and any person

providing investment advisory or custodial services to the trustee not paid

from income under KRS 386.490(1);

(b) The remaining one-half (1/2) of the disbursements described in KRS

386.490(2);

(c) All of the trustee's compensation calculated on principal as a fee for

acceptance, distribution, or termination, and disbursements made to prepare

property for sale;

(d) Payments on the principal of a trust debt;

(e) Expenses of a proceeding that concerns primarily principal, including a

proceeding to construe the trust or to protect the trust or its property;

(f) Premiums paid on a policy of insurance not described in KRS 386.490(4) of

which the trust is the owner and beneficiary;

(g) Estate, inheritance, and other transfer taxes, including penalties, apportioned

to the trust; and

(h) Disbursements related to environmental matters, including reclamation,

assessing environmental conditions, remedying and removing environmental

contamination, monitoring remedial activities and the release of substances,

preventing future releases of substances, collecting amounts from persons

liable or potentially liable for the costs of those activities, penalties imposed

under environmental laws or regulations and other payments made to comply

with those laws or regulations, statutory or common law claims by third

parties, and defending claims based on environmental matters.

(2) If a principal asset is encumbered with an obligation that requires income from that

asset to be paid directly to the creditor, the trustee shall transfer from principal to

income an amount equal to the income paid to the creditor in reduction of the

principal balance of the obligation.
KRS § 454.431 — KY Code / Title XLII / Chapter 454 / Section 454.431
454.431 Requirement for court approval of transfer of structured settlement payment rights -- Express findings that are required
Status: in_force

454.431 Requirement for court approval of transfer of structured settlement

payment rights -- Express findings that are required.

No transfer of structured settlement payment rights shall be effective and no structured

settlement obligor or annuity issuer shall be required to make any payment directly or

indirectly to any transferee of any transfer of structured settlement payment rights unless

the transfer has been approved in advance in an order of a court of competent jurisdiction,

based on the court's express findings that:

(1) The transfer complies with the requirements of KRS 454.430 to 454.435 and does

not contravene other applicable law;

(2) Not less than ten (10) days prior to the date on which the payee entered into the

transfer agreement, the transferee has provided to the payee a disclosure statement

in bold type, no smaller than fourteen (14) point, setting forth:

(a) The amounts and due dates of the structured settlement payments to be

transferred;

(b) The aggregate amount of the payments;

(c) The discounted present value of the payments, together with the discount rate

or rates used in determining the discounted present value;

(d) The gross amount payable to the payee in exchange for the payments;

(e) An itemized listing of all brokers' commissions, service charges, application

or processing fees, closing costs, filing or administrative charges, legal fees,

notary fees and other commissions, fees, costs, expenses, and charges payable

by the payee or deductible from the gross amount otherwise payable to the

payee; and

(f) The amount of any penalty and the aggregate amount of any liquidated

damages, including penalties, payable by the payee in the event of any breach

of the transfer agreement by the payee;

(3) The payee has established that the transfer is necessary to enable the payee to avoid

imminent financial hardship;

(4) The transferee has given written notice of the transferee's name, address, and

taxpayer identification number to the annuity issuer and the structured settlement

obligor and had filed a copy of the notice with the court; and

(5) The payee has consented in writing to the transfer.
KRS § 158.847 — KY Code / Title XIII / Chapter 158 / Section 158.847
158.847 Science and mathematics advancement fund -- Purposes -- Administrative regulations
Status: in_force

158.847 Science and mathematics advancement fund -- Purposes -- Administrative

regulations.

(1) (a) The science and mathematics advancement fund is hereby created to provide

incentives for public schools to provide or expand student access to rigorous

science and mathematics curricula, to make available advanced science and

mathematics courses and college credit in these disciplines for high school

students, and to increase the quantity and quality of science and mathematics

teachers in Kentucky.

(b) Funds may be used in support of public schools to provide:

1. Payment of student fees for AP and IB examinations;

2. Scholarships for high school students to take advanced science and

mathematics courses through the Kentucky Virtual High School when

those courses are not offered at the school in which they are enrolled;

3. Two (2) year grants to high schools to support the start-up of advanced

science and mathematics courses;

4. Two (2) year renewable grants to middle schools to support accelerated

student learning in science and mathematics;

5. Grants to school districts for programs to develop and implement an

energy technology engineering career track; and

6. Professional development opportunities, and payment of expenses and

stipends for participation, for elementary school teachers to deepen their

content knowledge and improve instructional practice in science and

mathematics.

(c) The fund may receive state appropriations, grants, gifts, federal funds, or any

other funds, public or private.

(d) Funds from the science and mathematics advancement fund shall be

distributed after all other funds available for these purposes have been

obligated, including state funds, federal funds, or any funds available through

a scholarship program administered by the Kentucky Higher Education

Assistance Authority.

(2) The Kentucky Board of Education shall promulgate administrative regulations for

the administration of the science and mathematics advancement fund. The Kentucky

Department of Education shall administer the fund, approve grant recipients, and

distribute the funds to local school districts and other appropriate educational

agencies.
KRS § 77.180 — KY Code / Title IX / Chapter 77 / Section 77.180
77.180 Orders, rules and regulations
Status: in_force

77.180 Orders, rules and regulations.

(1) The air pollution control board of an air pollution control district may make and

enforce all needful orders, rules, and regulations necessary or proper to accomplish

the purposes of this chapter for the administration of such district, and may perform

all other acts necessary or proper to accomplish the purposes of this chapter.

(2) Nothing in KRS 77.150 to 77.175 limits in any way the power of the air pollution

control board to make needful orders, rules, and regulations pursuant to KRS

77.180 to 77.240. Nothing in KRS 77.150 to 77.175 permits any action contrary to

any such order, rule, or regulation.
KRS § 173.050 — KY Code / Title XIV / Chapter 173 / Section 173.050
173.050 Powers of board of trustees
Status: in_force

173.050 Powers of board of trustees.

(1) The board of trustees may, in its corporate name:

(a) Contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, and have and use a

corporate seal, which it may alter at pleasure;

(b) Acquire, by itself or jointly with the city in which the library is located, by

gift, purchase or otherwise, and hold, in the same manner, real and personal

property to the use of the public library, for the purpose for which it is

dedicated;

(c) Use, manage and improve, sell and convey, rent or lease property, and erect

suitable buildings.

(2) The board of trustees may mortgage any real or personal property owned by the

library to secure any sums borrowed for making repairs or improvements, or paying

off any indebtedness it may owe. The mortgage shall not exceed $1,000,000.
KRS § 440.320 — KY Code / Title XL / Chapter 440 / Section 440.320
440.320 Forfeiture of bond
Status: in_force

440.320 Forfeiture of bond.

If the prisoner is admitted to bail, and fails to appear and surrender himself according to

the conditions of his bond, the judge, by proper order, shall declare the bond forfeited and

order his immediate arrest without warrant if he be within this state. Recovery may be had

on such bond in the name of the state as in the case of other bonds given by the accused

in criminal proceedings within this state.
KRS § 504.130 — KY Code / Title L / Chapter 504 / Section 504.130
504.130 Grounds for finding defendant guilty but mentally ill
Status: in_force

504.130 Grounds for finding defendant guilty but mentally ill.

(1) The defendant may be found guilty but mentally ill if:

(a) The prosecution proves beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty

of an offense; and

(b) The defendant proves by a preponderance of the evidence that he was

mentally ill at the time of the offense.

(2) If the defendant waives his right to trial, the court may accept a plea of guilty but

mentally ill if it finds that the defendant was mentally ill at the time of the offense.
KRS § 198B.570 — KY Code / Title XVII / Chapter 198B / Section 198B.570
198B.570 Examination of applicant
Status: in_force

198B.570 Examination of applicant.

To become a certificate holder under KRS 198B.560, an applicant shall satisfactorily

pass a current examination prescribed and administered by the National Institute for

Certification in Engineering Technologies entitled Fire Protection Engineering

Technology Automatic Sprinkler System Design Level III, or the equivalent thereof,

approved by the commissioner.
KRS § 11A.226 — KY Code / Title III / Chapter 11A / Section 11A.226
11A.226 Dispute resolution with respect to statements of expenditures and statements of financial transactions
Status: in_force

11A.226 Dispute resolution with respect to statements of expenditures and

statements of financial transactions.

(1) If a dispute arises between an elected executive official, the secretary of a cabinet

listed in KRS 12.250, an executive agency official, or any member of the staff of

any of those officials and a real party in interest, an employer, or an executive

agency lobbyist with respect to an expenditure or financial transaction alleged in a

statement to be filed under KRS 11A.216 or 11A.221, the official, employee, real

party in interest, employer, or executive agency lobbyist may file a complaint with

the commission. The commission shall investigate the complaint.

(2) The complaint shall be filed at least three (3) days prior to the time the statement is

required to be filed with the commission. The time for filing a disputed expenditure

or financial transaction in any statement of expenditures or the details of a financial

transaction shall be extended pending the final decision of the commission. This

extension does not extend the time for filing the nondisputed portions of either type

of statement. The commission shall notify the parties of its final decision by

certified mail. If the commission decides the disputed expenditure or financial

transaction should be reported, the employer, a real party in interest, or the

executive agency lobbyist shall include the matter in an amended statement and file

the amended statement not later than ten (10) days after receiving notice of the

decision of the commission by certified mail.

(3) An employer, executive agency lobbyist, or real party in interest who files a false

statement of expenditures or details of a financial transaction is liable in a civil

action to any official or employee who sustains damage as a result of the filing or

publication of the statement.
KRS § 383.700 — KY Code / Title XXXII / Chapter 383 / Section 383.700
383.700 Remedies for abuse of access
Status: in_force

383.700 Remedies for abuse of access.

(1) If the tenant refuses to allow lawful access, the landlord may obtain injunctive relief

to compel access, or terminate the rental agreement. In either case the landlord may

recover actual damages and reasonable attorney's fees.

(2) If the landlord makes an unlawful entry or a lawful entry in an unreasonable manner

or makes repeated demands for entry otherwise lawful but which have the effect of

unreasonably harassing the tenant, the tenant may obtain injunctive relief to prevent

the reoccurrence of the conduct or terminate the rental agreement. In either case the

tenant may recover actual damages and reasonable attorney's fees.
KRS § 202B.110 — KY Code / Title XVII / Chapter 202B / Section 202B.110
202B.110 Venue for proceedings subsequent to preliminary hearing
Status: in_force

202B.110 Venue for proceedings subsequent to preliminary hearing.

A respondent who has been ordered involuntarily admitted following the preliminary

hearing shall have venue for all subsequent proceedings, including the final hearing,

transferred to the court of the county where the respondent is admitted; however, the

court of the county where the preliminary hearing was held may, upon its own motion, or

shall, upon motion of one (1) of the parties, retain venue over proceedings subsequent to

the preliminary hearing.
KRS § 511.020 — KY Code / Title L / Chapter 511 / Section 511.020
511.020 Burglary in the first degree
Status: in_force

511.020 Burglary in the first degree.

(1) A person is guilty of burglary in the first degree when, with the intent to commit a

crime, he or she knowingly enters or remains unlawfully in a building, and when in

effecting entry or while in the building or in the immediate flight therefrom, he or

she or another participant in the crime:

(a) Is armed with explosives or a deadly weapon;

(b) Causes physical injury to any person who is not a participant in the crime; or

(c) Uses or threatens the use of a dangerous instrument against any person who is

not a participant in the crime.

(2) Burglary in the first degree is a Class B felony, unless the offense occurs during a

declared emergency as defined by KRS 39A.020 arising from a natural or man-

made disaster, within the area covered by the emergency declaration, and within the

area impacted by the disaster, in which case it is a Class A felony.
KRS § 18A.200 — KY Code / Title III / Chapter 18A / Section 18A.200
18A.200 Per diem salaries for state officers or employees serving on boards or commissions prohibited during regular working hours -- Reimbursement of expenses authorized
Status: in_force

18A.200 Per diem salaries for state officers or employees serving on boards or

commissions prohibited during regular working hours -- Reimbursement of

expenses authorized.

(1) No state officer or employee who is required by statute or regulation to serve on

any board, commission or other body in an official capacity shall receive a per diem

salary for the attendance of meetings or performance of services during regular

working hours.

(2) Any state officer or employee who is required by statute or regulation or who is

elected or appointed to serve on any board, commission or other body in an official

capacity shall receive reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses in

accordance with state regulations and standards.