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KRS § 67C.317 — KY Code / Title IX / Chapter 67C / Section 67C.317
67C.317 Soliciting and receiving political contributions -- Appointment or promotion for political service -- Discipline for failure to make political contribution -- Opinions and beliefs -- Political or religious controversies -- Political activity prohibited
Status: in_force

67C.317 Soliciting and receiving political contributions -- Appointment or

promotion for political service -- Discipline for failure to make political

contribution -- Opinions and beliefs -- Political or religious controversies --

Political activity prohibited.

(1) No officer while on duty or in uniform covered by the provisions of KRS 67C.301

to 67C.327 shall directly or indirectly solicit or receive or be in any manner

concerned in receiving, soliciting, or publicizing any assessment, gift, subscription,

or contribution to or for any political party or candidate for public office.

(2) No person shall use or promise to use his or her personal influence or official

authority to secure any appointment or promotion to any position of employment

covered by the provisions of KRS 67C.301 to 67C.327, as a reward or return for

personal or partisan political service. No candidate applying for original

appointment or promotion to any position of employment covered by KRS 67C.301

to 67C.327 shall sign or execute or promise to sign or execute a resignation dated or

undated in advance of his or her appointment or promotion. No officer covered by

the provisions of KRS 67C.301 to 67C.327 shall be suspended, laid-off, demoted,

promoted, disciplined, or threatened, or in any way changed in rank, duty, or

compensation for withholding or neglecting to pay or make any contribution of any

sort, either in money, goods, services, or anything of value for any political purpose

whatsoever.

(3) No examination question on any examination given by the board shall relate to any

political or religious opinion, belief, affiliation, or service and no appointment,

promotion, demotion, suspension, or removal shall be brought about, affected, or

influenced by these opinions, beliefs, affiliations, or services.

(4) No officer covered by the provisions of KRS 67C.301 to 67C.327 shall foster,

promote, or be concerned with any actions involving political or religious

controversies or prejudices while in uniform.

(5) No officer covered by KRS 67C.301 to 67C.327 and no probationary officer shall,

while on duty, in uniform, or using public resources, propose or oppose the

placement of a question or advocate for the adoption or defeat of a question to be

voted upon by the voters of the government under which the officer is employed.

(6) Nothing contained in KRS 67C.301 to 67C.327 shall be so construed as to abridge

the rights of any officer with respect to his or her personal opinions, beliefs, and

right to vote.
KRS § 532.005 — KY Code / Title L / Chapter 532 / Section 532.005
532.005 Chapters 532, 533 and 534 to apply to crimes outside provisions of the Penal Code
Status: in_force

532.005 Chapters 532, 533 and 534 to apply to crimes outside provisions of the

Penal Code.

KRS Chapters 532, 533 and 534 apply to all classes of crimes committed outside the

provisions of the Penal Code.
KRS § 243.490 — KY Code / Title XX / Chapter 243 / Section 243.490
243.490 Causes for which licenses may be revoked or suspended
Status: in_force

243.490 Causes for which licenses may be revoked or suspended.

A license may be revoked or suspended by the board for a violation of any of the

following:

(1) Any of the provisions of KRS Chapters 241 to 244;

(2) Any administrative regulation of the board relating to the regulation of the:

(a) Manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages; or

(b) Distribution and retail sale of cannabis-infused beverages;

(3) Any rule or administrative regulation of the Department of Revenue relating to the

taxation of alcoholic beverages or cannabis-infused beverages;

(4) Any Act of Congress or any rule or regulation of any federal board, agency, or

commission;

(5) Any local ordinance relating to the regulation of the:

(a) Manufacture, sale, and transportation or taxation of alcoholic beverages; or

(b) Distribution, retail sale, or taxation of cannabis-infused beverages;

(6) Any of the laws, regulations, or ordinances referred to in this section when an

agent, servant, or employee of the licensee committed the violation, irrespective of

whether the licensee knew of or permitted the violation or whether the violation

was committed in disobedience of the licensee's instructions;

(7) Any cause which the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board in the exercise of its sound

discretion deems sufficient; or

(8) Any of the reasons for which the state administrator would have been required to

deny a license if existing material facts had been known.
KRS § 267.240 — KY Code / Title XXII / Chapter 267 / Section 267.240
267.240 Construction contract -- Bond -- Board may construct
Status: in_force

267.240 Construction contract -- Bond -- Board may construct.

(1) Upon final reference to it by the court of any drainage proceedings, the board shall

give notice by publication pursuant to KRS Chapter 424 in the county in which the

improvement is located, of the time and place of letting the work of construction

and of the approximate amount of work to be done and the time fixed for its

completion. On the date appointed for the letting the board, together with the chief

engineer, shall convene and let the work to the lowest responsible bidder, either as a

whole or in sections, as they may deem most advantageous for the district. No bid

shall be entertained that exceeds the estimated cost unless for good reasons it is

shown that the original estimate was erroneous. The board may reject all bids and

advertise again, if it believes it will be in the interest of the district to do so. The

board may employ persons and teams and lease, rent, hire or purchase machinery

and equipment, and directly construct the improvement according to the plans and

specifications, without letting a contract. The board may exercise the same power in

cleaning out, straightening and reconstructing old public ditches, but the expense in

any case shall not exceed the estimate of the drainage engineer for the work.

(2) If the board accepts a bid, the successful bidder shall be required to enter into a

contract with the board and to execute a bond for the faithful performance of such

contract, with sufficient sureties, in favor of the board for the use and benefit of the

district, in an amount equal to fifty percent (50%) of the estimated cost of the work

awarded to him. The board may maintain action for breach of the contract against

any contractor and the sureties on his bond, and in case of breach of the contract the

work may be advertised and relet in the same manner as the original letting.
KRS § 247.040 — KY Code / Title XXI / Chapter 247 / Section 247.040
247.040 Quicksand substation -- Functions
Status: in_force

247.040 Quicksand substation -- Functions.

The Quicksand substation shall conduct experimental work and carry on investigations in

timber production, forest growth, forest renewal and the utilization of forest products, the

practicability of reforestation and the development of a permanent forest industry. It shall

also conduct experimental work, investigations and demonstrations in the various phases

of horticulture, animal husbandry and agriculture and such other investigations and

demonstrations as bear directly upon the development of agriculture in eastern Kentucky.
KRS § 426.685 — KY Code / Title XXXIX / Chapter 426 / Section 426.685
426.685 Provisions governing sales by court order of indivisible real property
Status: in_force

426.685 Provisions governing sales by court order of indivisible real property.

(1) Before ordering a sale of real property for the payment of debt, the court must be

satisfied by the pleadings, by an agreement of the parties, by affidavits filed, or by a

report of a commissioner or commissioners, whether or not the property can be

divided without materially impairing its value, and may cause it to be divided, with

suitable avenues, streets, lanes or alleys, or without any of them.

(2) If it be necessary to sell, for the payment of debt, a parcel of real property which can

not be divided without materially impairing its value, the officer shall sell the whole

of it, though it bring more than the sum to be raised, and the court shall make proper

orders for the distribution of the proceeds.
KRS § 67.763 — KY Code / Title IX / Chapter 67 / Section 67.763
67.763 Tax liability of business entity that ceases doing business in tax district
Status: in_force

67.763 Tax liability of business entity that ceases doing business in tax district.

If any business entity dissolves or withdraws from a tax district during any taxable year,

or if any business entity in any manner surrenders or loses its charter during any taxable

year, the dissolution, withdrawal, or loss or surrender of charter shall not defeat the filing

of returns and the assessment and collection of net profit or gross receipts taxes or tax

withheld for the period of that taxable year during which the business entity had net profit

or gross receipts or tax withheld in the tax district.
KRS § 218A.171 — KY Code / Title XVIII / Chapter 218A / Section 218A.171
218A.171 Electronic prescribing
Status: in_force

218A.171 Electronic prescribing.

(1) Electronic prescribing of a controlled substance under this chapter shall not interfere

with a patient's freedom to select a pharmacy.

(2) Electronic prescribing software used by a practitioner to prescribe a controlled

substance under this chapter may include clinical messaging and messages in pop-

up windows directed to the practitioner regarding a particular controlled substance

that supports the practitioner's clinical decision making.

(3) Drug information contained in electronic prescribing software to prescribe a

controlled substance under this chapter shall be consistent with Food and Drug

Administration-approved information regarding a particular controlled substance.

(4) (a) Electronic prescribing software used by a practitioner to prescribe a controlled

substance under this chapter may show information regarding a payor's

formulary, copayments, or benefit plan, provided that nothing in the software

is designed to preclude a practitioner from selecting any particular pharmacy

or controlled substance.

(b) If electronic prescribing software does show information regarding a payor's

formulary, payments, or benefit plan under paragraph (a) of this subsection,

the information shall be updated at least quarterly to ensure its accuracy.

(5) Each governmental unit of the Commonwealth promulgating administrative

regulations relating to electronic prescribing shall include in the regulations

electronic prior authorization standards meeting the requirements of KRS 304.17A-

167 in its implementation of health information technology improvements as

required by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act

of 2003 and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health

Act, enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
KRS § 529.060 — KY Code / Title L / Chapter 529 / Section 529.060
529.060 Corroboration
Status: in_force

529.060 Corroboration.

(1) No person shall be convicted of prostitution solely on the uncorroborated testimony

of a patron.

(2) No person shall be convicted of promoting prostitution solely on the uncorroborated

testimony of a person whose prostitution activity he is alleged to have advanced or

from whose prostitution activity he is alleged to have profited.
KRS § 132.280 — KY Code / Title XI / Chapter 132 / Section 132.280
132.280 County tax levy to be based on state assessment -- Exception for special taxing district
Status: in_force

132.280 County tax levy to be based on state assessment -- Exception for special

taxing district.

The assessment made for state purposes, when supervised as required by law, shall be the

basis for the levy of the ad valorem tax for county, school district, and all special taxing

district purposes; except that any special taxing district established within an incorporated

city under existing statutory or any independent school district whose January 1, 1975,

assessment per pupil in average daily attendance would have been reduced because of the

use of the assessment made for state purposes as of January 1, 1975, shall continue to use

the assessment made for city purposes.
KRS § 405.021 — KY Code / Title XXXV / Chapter 405 / Section 405.021
405.021 Reasonable visitation rights to grandparents
Status: in_force

405.021 Reasonable visitation rights to grandparents.

(1) (a) The Circuit Court may grant reasonable visitation rights to either the paternal

or maternal grandparents of a child and issue any necessary orders to enforce

the decree if it determines that it is in the best interest of the child to do so.

Once a grandparent has been granted visitation rights under this subsection,

those rights shall not be adversely affected by the termination of parental

rights belonging to the grandparent's son or daughter, who is the father or

mother of the child visited by the grandparent, unless the Circuit Court

determines that it is in the best interest of the child to do so.

(b) If the parent of the child who is the son or daughter of the grandparent is

deceased, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that visitation with the

grandparent is in the best interest of the child if the grandparent can prove a

pre-existing significant and viable relationship with the child.

(c) In order to prove a significant and viable relationship under paragraph (b) of

this subsection, the grandparent shall prove by a preponderance of the

evidence that:

1. The child resided with the grandparent for at least six (6) consecutive

months with or without the current custodian present;

2. The grandparent was the caregiver of the child on a regular basis for at

least six (6) consecutive months;

3. The grandparent had frequent or regular contact with the child for at

least twelve (12) consecutive months; or

4. There exist any other facts that establish that the loss of the relationship

between the grandparent and the child is likely to harm the child.

(2) The action shall be brought in Circuit Court in the county in which the child resides.

(3) The Circuit Court may grant noncustodial parental visitation rights to the

grandparent of a child if the parent of the child who is the son or daughter of the

grandparent is deceased and the grandparent has assumed the financial obligation of

child support owed by the deceased parent, unless the court determines that the

visitation is not in the best interest of the child. If visitation is not granted, the

grandparent shall not be responsible for child support.
KRS § 15.490 — KY Code / Title III / Chapter 15 / Section 15.490
15.490 Reports -- Compensation as part of salary
Status: in_force

15.490 Reports -- Compensation as part of salary.

(1) Each participating unit of government shall submit reports to the cabinet on March

31, June 30, September 30, and December 31 of each year containing information

relative to number, rank, education, training, and compensation of police officers

employed by it and the disposition made of any state or other funds received

pursuant to KRS 15.410 to 15.510. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the cabinet

from requiring additional information or reports from participating units of

government;

(2) Units of government shall include the additional compensation paid to each police

officer from the Law Enforcement Foundation Program fund as a part of the

officer's salary in determining all payroll deductions.
KRS § 138.991 — KY Code / Title XI / Chapter 138 / Section 138.991
138.991 Penalties
Status: in_force

138.991 Penalties.

(1) Any person who shall change or alter the date, name, gallonage or other information

shown on any invoice used to support any claim for refund authorized in KRS

138.341, 138.344, 138.445, 138.358, or 138.446 shall forfeit the right to such

refund.

(2) Any person, firm or corporation who shall make any false statement in connection

with an application for the refund of any money, as provided in KRS 138.341,

138.344, 138.445, 138.358, or 138.446 or who shall collect or cause to be repaid to

him or to any person any such taxes without being entitled to the same shall be

fined not less than twenty-five dollars ($25) nor more than one thousand dollars

($1,000).
KRS § 198A.165 — KY Code / Title XVII / Chapter 198A / Section 198A.165
198A.165 Authorization for establishing reserve and replacement funds
Status: in_force

198A.165 Authorization for establishing reserve and replacement funds.

The corporation shall be authorized and empowered in connection with the issuance of its

bonds and notes for housing purposes pursuant to this chapter to establish in respect of

such bonds and notes such reserve funds or replacement funds as may be required in the

sound discretion of the board of directors of the corporation to enable the corporation to

effectuate its proper public purposes. In the event any such reserve fund or replacement

fund created by the corporation in connection with any such bond issue or note issue

should, in violation of any contract made by the corporation with any bondholder or note

holder be monetarily deficient in any respect as of any date of accounting so stipulated by

the corporation, the corporation shall immediately make formal request in writing to the

secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet, and to the Governor of Kentucky

that sums adequate to restore such reserve fund or replacement fund to its contractually

required level and to pay any overdue principal and interest on any outstanding bonds and

notes of the corporation be included in the next succeeding executive budget, and that

such budget request with recommendation for approval by the General Assembly to the

corporation for the use and benefit of such reserve fund or replacement fund. In the event

the next scheduled even-numbered-year regular session of the General Assembly of

Kentucky shall occur more than six (6) months after any such request by the corporation,

the corporation shall request that sums adequate to restore such reserve fund or

replacement fund to such contractually required level and to pay any overdue principal

and interest on any outstanding bonds and notes of the corporation be made available

from the Governor's contingency fund, and if such funds are so made available the budget

request hereinabove described in this section shall be correspondingly reduced.
KRS § 395.380 — KY Code / Title XXXIV / Chapter 395 / Section 395.380
395.380 Public administrator and guardian
Status: in_force

395.380 Public administrator and guardian.

(1) The District Court of each county shall appoint a discreet, fit person to act as

administrator of decedents' estates of which there is no personal representative, and

as guardian of orphans who have no guardian.

(2) He shall serve at the discretion of the District Court.

(3) He shall be sworn and execute bond with good surety to the state for the faithful

discharge of his duties, and when so sworn with bond so executed, shall be accepted

by the court in every estate in which the public administrator is appointed without

the necessity of additional surety.
KRS § 18A.100 — KY Code / Title III / Chapter 18A / Section 18A.100
18A.100 Appeal of final order of the Personnel Board
Status: in_force

18A.100 Appeal of final order of the Personnel Board.

(1) Any final order of the board either upholding or invalidating the dismissal,

demotion, or suspension of a classified or an unclassified employee may be

appealed either by the employee or by the appointing authority.

(2) The party aggrieved may appeal a final order by filing a petition with the clerk of

the Franklin Circuit Court in accordance with KRS Chapter 13B.
KRS § 324.288 — KY Code / Title XXVI / Chapter 324 / Section 324.288
324.288 Affiliation fee
Status: in_force

324.288 Affiliation fee.

No affiliation fee shall be charged in any year to a licensee. As used in this section,

"affiliation fee" means any fee or compensation paid by a licensee, to any person, for the

privilege of listing his license with a particular principal broker, in records submitted to

the commission.
KRS § 161.017 — KY Code / Title XIII / Chapter 161 / Section 161.017
161.017 Education Professional Standards Board to be headed by commissioner of education -- Duties and powers
Status: in_force

161.017 Education Professional Standards Board to be headed by commissioner of

education -- Duties and powers.

(1) The administration of the duties of the Education Professional Standards Board,

established in KRS 161.028, shall be headed by the commissioner of education and

shall include the following:

(a) Setting up appropriate organizational structures and personnel policies for

approval by the board;

(b) Appointing all staff;

(c) Preparing annual reports on the board's program of work;

(d) Carrying out policy and program directives of the board; and

(e) Performing all other duties and responsibilities assigned by state law.

(2) With approval of the board, the commissioner of education may enter into

agreements with any state agency or political subdivision of the state, any

postsecondary education institution, or any other person or entity to enlist assistance

to implement the duties and responsibilities of the board.

(3) The commissioner of education shall have access to the papers, books, and records

of education personnel as part of an inquiry or investigation relating to disciplinary

actions against a certified employee.

(4) Pursuant to KRS 161.120, the commissioner of education, on behalf of the board,

may issue administrative subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses and the

production of documents relevant to disciplinary cases under consideration.

Compliance with the subpoenas shall be enforceable by the Circuit Court in

Franklin County.
KRS § 107.420 — KY Code / Title IX / Chapter 107 / Section 107.420
107.420 Contract of lease prior to acquisition of site and construction of buildings
Status: in_force

107.420 Contract of lease prior to acquisition of site and construction of buildings.

Any governmental unit within the territorial limits of the county may, in anticipation of

the construction and erection of such buildings, including the necessary equipment and

appurtenances thereof, make and enter into a contract of lease with such district prior to

the actual acquisition of a site, if a site is to be acquired, and the construction and erection

of such buildings.
KRS § 205.561 — KY Code / Title XVII / Chapter 205 / Section 205.561
205.561 Report on the dispensing of prescription medications
Status: in_force

205.561 Report on the dispensing of prescription medications.

(1) The cabinet shall submit a report to the Governor and the Legislative Research

Commission on the dispensing of prescription medications to persons eligible under

KRS 205.560 upon request. The report shall also include current data on the most

utilized and abused drugs in the Kentucky Medicaid program, a determination of

factors causing high drug costs and drug usage rates of Medicaid recipients, and the

effectiveness of the drug formulary and prior authorization process in managing

drug costs. The report shall be reviewed by the Drug Management Review Advisory

Board created under KRS 205.5636.

(2) A reasonable fee for dispensing prescription medications shall be determined by the

Department for Medicaid Services.