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KRS § 151.723 — KY Code / Title XII / Chapter 151 / Section 151.723
151.723 Water use fees
Status: in_force

151.723 Water use fees.

(1) The rate of the water use fees collected by the authority shall be set for each year of

the biennium based upon a total amount of funds necessary to carry out only those

functions, projects, and expenses authorized by the General Assembly in the

authority's biennial budget.

(2) At the time the authority submits its budget to the Governor's Office of Policy and

Management, it shall certify to the General Assembly the total amount of water use

reported for the preceding biennium by users subject to the water use fees. At least

thirty (30) days prior to the effective date of the authority's budget, the authority

shall establish a rate for each water use fee based upon an amount of water use

projected for each year of the biennium from the amount reported, calculated to

generate the amount of funds necessary to carry out the functions, projects, and

expenses which have been authorized by the General Assembly to be funded by the

fees. The rate shall be an amount for each one thousand (1,000) gallons of water use

and shall be effective for at least one (1) year.

(3) The authority shall define by administrative regulation those uses of the Kentucky

River or the waters of the Kentucky River basin subject to a water use fee. Water

use fees shall not apply to facilities using water for agricultural purposes. The

authority shall collect the fees on a quarterly basis and pay the collected fees into

the State Treasury to the credit of a restricted fund for use by the authority.
KRS § 391.105 — KY Code / Title XXXIV / Chapter 391 / Section 391.105
391.105 Determination of rights of intestate succession in the case of a person born out of wedlock
Status: in_force

391.105 Determination of rights of intestate succession in the case of a person born

out of wedlock.

(1) For the purpose of intestate succession, if a relationship of parent and child must be

established to determine succession by, through, or from a person, a person born out

of wedlock is a child of the natural mother. That person is also a child of the natural

father if:

(a) The natural parents participated in a marriage ceremony before or after the

birth of the child, even though the attempted marriage is void; or

(b) In determining the right of the child or its descendants to inherit from or

through the father:

1. There has been an adjudication of paternity before the death of the

father; or

2. There has been an adjudication of paternity after the death of the father

based upon clear and convincing proof;

(c) In determining the right of the father or his kindred to inherit from or through

the child:

1. There has been an adjudication of paternity before the death of the child;

or

2. There has been an adjudication of paternity after the death of the child

based on clear and convincing proof and the evidence in such

adjudication shall have demonstrated that the father openly treated the

child as his, and the father did not follow a consistent policy of refusing

to support the child on the ground of nonpaternity.

(2) The terms and conditions set out in this section shall also apply in actions brought

pursuant to KRS 411.130 and 411.135.
KRS § 273.337 — KY Code / Title XXIII / Chapter 273 / Section 273.337
273.337 Qualifications of receivers
Status: in_force

273.337 Qualifications of receivers.

A receiver shall in all cases be a citizen of the United States or a corporation for profit

authorized to act as receiver, which corporation may be a domestic corporation or a

foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state, and shall in all cases give

such bond as the court may direct with such sureties as the court may require.
KRS § 76.005 — KY Code / Title IX / Chapter 76 / Section 76.005
76.005 Definitions
Status: in_force

76.005 Definitions.

As used in KRS 76.010 to 76.295 unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) "District" means a metropolitan sewer district authorized by KRS 76.010 to 76.210.

(2) "Board" means the board described in KRS 76.030.

(3) "District area," "within the district," "corporate limits of the district" and similar

terms mean that area of a county containing a city of the first class which area was

on April 1, 1964, either inside the city of the first class or served by sanitary or

combined sanitary and storm water sewers which were under the immediate control

and custody of the district, that area of such a county which is added to the district

pursuant to KRS 76.170, and that area of such a county which may be annexed to

the city of the first class except that no construction subdistrict shall be construed to

be within the district area.

(4) "Construction subdistrict bonds and obligations" and like phrases mean any

obligation whatsoever that has been incurred by the district because of some

function or activity of a construction subdistrict. Such debts are not obligations of

the district, and such debts may be paid only from moneys received by the district

on account of the construction subdistrict, or from the funds, if any, in the

construction subdistrict reserve fund.

(5) "Construction subdistrict facilities" are all sewerage facilities within a construction

subdistrict, and all sewerage facilities in a county containing a district outside the

district area which:

(a) Are not a part of a sewer construction district organized pursuant to KRS

76.300 to 76.420 or a sanitation district organized pursuant to KRS 220.010 to

220.540 or a sewer system of a municipal corporation or a sewer system of a

water district organized pursuant to KRS 74.010 to 74.415; and

(b) Join together two (2) or more construction subdistricts or lead from a

construction subdistrict to the district area or lead from a construction

subdistrict to a disposal plant or a treatment plant outside the construction

subdistrict and outside the district area.

(6) "District facilities" are all facilities of the district within the district area.
KRS § 117.0865 — KY Code / Title X / Chapter 117 / Section 117.0865
117.0865 Prohibition against influencing voter completing an absentee ballot or a federal provisional absentee ballot -- Penalty
Status: in_force

117.0865 Prohibition against influencing voter completing an absentee ballot or a

federal provisional absentee ballot -- Penalty.

Any person who aids another in completing an absentee ballot or a federal provisional

absentee ballot shall not solicit or encourage that person to vote for or against any

candidate, party, or issue. Any person who violates this section shall be guilty of a Class

D felony.
KRS § 189.289 — KY Code / Title XVI / Chapter 189 / Section 189.289
189.289 Operation of electric low-speed scooter on highway, bicycle lane, or bicycle path
Status: in_force

189.289 Operation of electric low-speed scooter on highway, bicycle lane, or bicycle

path.

(1) A person sixteen (16) years of age or older, may operate an electric low-speed

scooter on a highway, bicycle lane, or bicycle path.

(2) A person operating an electric low-speed scooter under this section shall be subject

to traffic regulations outlined in this chapter, and the provisions of KRS 189.520.

(3) An electric low-speed scooter shall be equipped with and shall have illuminated, at

least one (1) headlamp and at least one (1) rear red light when:

(a) Operated during the period from one-half (1/2) hour after sunset to one-half

(1/2) hour before sunrise; or

(b) At such other times as atmospheric conditions render visibility as low as or

lower than is ordinarily the case during that period.

(4) An electric low-speed scooter may be parked on a sidewalk in a manner that does

not impede the reasonable movement of pedestrian or any other traffic.

(5) An operator of an electric low-speed scooter and any company or entity that

provides electric low-speed scooters for rental, shall comply with all local

government ordinances.

(6) The Transportation Cabinet shall promulgate administrative regulations pursuant to

KRS Chapter 13A to establish safe operating standards for electric low-speed

scooters. Administrative regulations established under this section shall not include

any equipment or helmet use requirements.
KRS § 171.325 — KY Code / Title XIV / Chapter 171 / Section 171.325
171.325 Local history trust fund -- Purpose -- Application, qualification, and approval standards -- Administrative regulations
Status: in_force

171.325 Local history trust fund -- Purpose -- Application, qualification, and

approval standards -- Administrative regulations.

(1) The local history trust fund is created as a separate trust fund. The fund shall consist

of moneys collected from the income tax checkoff created under KRS 141.441 and

any other proceeds from grants, contributions, appropriations, or other moneys

made available for the purposes of the trust fund.

(2) Trust fund amounts not expended at the close of a fiscal year shall not lapse but

shall be carried forward to the next fiscal year.

(3) Any interest earnings of the trust fund shall become a part of the trust fund and shall

not lapse.

(4) Trust fund moneys shall be used to support local history through grants made to

local history organizations in Kentucky. Funds shall be administered and distributed

by the Kentucky Historical Society for the purposes directed in this section.

(5) Moneys transferred to the trust fund pursuant to KRS 141.441 are hereby

appropriated for the purposes set forth in this section.

(6) The Kentucky Historical Society shall develop standards for qualifying applicants,

and for applying and approving grants from the trust fund, and may promulgate

administrative regulations as needed to implement this section.
KRS § 2.013 — KY Code / Title I / Chapter 2 / Section 2.013
2.013 State language
Status: in_force

2.013 State language.

English is designated as the official state language of Kentucky.
KRS § 531.360 — KY Code / Title L / Chapter 531 / Section 531.360
531.360 Advertising material portraying a sexual performance by a minor
Status: in_force

531.360 Advertising material portraying a sexual performance by a minor.

(1) A person is guilty of advertising material portraying a sexual performance by a

minor when, having knowledge of its content and character thereof, he or she writes

or creates advertising or solicits anyone to publish such advertising or otherwise

promotes the sale or distribution of matter portraying a sexual performance by a

minor or a computer-generated image of a minor.

(2) Advertising material portraying a sexual performance by a minor is a:

(a) Class D felony for the first offense; and

(b) Class C felony for the second or subsequent offense.
KRS § 218B.040 — KY Code / Title XVIII / Chapter 218B / Section 218B.040
218B.040 Employer not required to permit or accommodate use
Status: in_force

218B.040 Employer not required to permit or accommodate use.

(1) Nothing in this chapter shall:

(a) Require an employer to permit or accommodate the use, consumption,

possession, transfer, display, transportation, distribution, sale, or growing of

medicinal cannabis in the workplace;

(b) Prohibit an employer from implementing policies promoting workplace health

and safety by:

1. Restricting the use of medicinal cannabis by employees; or

2. Restricting or prohibiting the use of equipment, machinery, or power

tools by an employee who is a registered qualified patient, if the

employer believes that the use of such equipment, machinery, or power

tools by an employee who is a registered qualified patient poses an

unreasonable safety risk;

(c) Prohibit an employer from including in any contract provisions that prohibit

the use of medicinal cannabis by employees;

(d) Permit a cause of action against an employer for wrongful discharge or

discrimination;

(e) Except as provided in KRS 218B.045, prohibit a person, employer,

corporation, or any other entity who occupies, owns, or controls a property

from prohibiting or otherwise regulating the use, consumption, possession,

transfer, display, transportation, sale, or growing of medicinal cannabis on or

in that property;

(f) Prohibit an employer from establishing and enforcing a drug testing policy,

drug-free workplace, or zero-tolerance drug policy; or

(g) Prohibit an employer from exercising his or her ability to determine

impairment of an employee who is a cardholder. Good faith determinations of

impairment permitted under this paragraph shall include behavioral

assessments of impairment and a secondary step of testing an employee who

is a cardholder for the presence of cannabis by an established method. If an

employer determines, pursuant to KRS 218B.015(2)(c), that an employee who

is a cardholder is impaired by the use of cannabis from the behavioral

assessment and testing, the burden of proving non-impairment shall shift to

the employee to refute the findings of the employer.

(2) An employee who is discharged from employment for consuming medicinal

cannabis in the workplace, working while under the influence of medicinal

cannabis, or testing positive for a controlled substance shall not be eligible to

receive benefits under KRS Chapter 341, if such actions are in violation of an

employment contract or established personnel policy.

(3) An employer shall not be penalized or denied any benefit under state law for

employing a cardholder.
KRS § 253.990 — KY Code / Title XXI / Chapter 253 / Section 253.990
253.990 Penalty
Status: in_force

253.990 Penalty.

Any person who knowingly alters or defaces the marks or brands on any livestock

not his own, without the consent of the owner, shall be fined not more than two

hundred dollars ($200), or imprisoned for not more than six (6) months, or both.
KRS § 363.710 — KY Code / Title XXIX / Chapter 363 / Section 363.710
363.710 Provisions for weights and measures for liquid, solid form
Status: in_force

363.710 Provisions for weights and measures for liquid, solid form.

(1) Commodities in liquid form shall be sold only by liquid measure or by weight, and,

except as otherwise provided in KRS 363.510 to 363.850, commodities not in liquid

form shall be sold only by weight, by measure of length or area, or by count:

provided, that liquid commodities may be sold by weight, and commodities not in

liquid form may be sold by count only if such methods give accurate information as

to the quantity of commodity sold; and provided further, that the provisions of this

section shall not apply:

(a) To commodities when sold for immediate consumption on the premises where

sold,

(b) To vegetables when sold by head or bunch,

(c) To commodities in containers standardized by a law of this state or by federal

law,

(d) To commodities in package form when there exists a general consumer usage

to express the quantity in some other manner,

(e) To concrete aggregates, concrete mixtures, and loose solid materials such as

earth, soil, gravel, crushed stone, and the like, when sold by cubic measure, or

(f) To unprocessed vegetable and animal fertilizer when sold by cubic measure.

(2) The director may issue such reasonable regulations as are necessary to assure that

amounts of commodity sold are determined in accordance with good commercial

practice and are so determined and represented as to be accurate and informative to

all parties at interest.
KRS § 247.6044 — KY Code / Title XXI / Chapter 247 / Section 247.6044
247.6044 Powers of Commissioner to carry out KRS 247.6040 to 247.6070
Status: in_force

247.6044 Powers of Commissioner to carry out KRS 247.6040 to 247.6070.

(1) The Commissioner may enter cotton fields and other premises in order to carry out

certain activities, including but not limited to treatment with pesticides and

monitoring, as may be necessary to carry out KRS 247.6040 to 247.6070.

(2) The Commissioner may inspect any fields or premises in this state and any property

located on the premises for the purpose of determining whether the property is

infested. The inspection and other activities may be conducted at any reasonable

hours between sunrise and sunset.
KRS § 275.172 — KY Code / Title XXIII / Chapter 275 / Section 275.172
275.172 Expulsion of member of limited liability company -- Conditions
Status: in_force

275.172 Expulsion of member of limited liability company -- Conditions.

(1) On application by the limited liability company, a person is expelled as a member

by judicial order:

(a) If the person has engaged or is engaging in wrongful conduct that has

adversely and materially affected, or will adversely and materially affect, the

company's activities;

(b) If the person has willfully or persistently committed, or is willfully and

persistently committing, a material breach of the operating agreement or the

person's duties or obligations under KRS 275.170;

(c) If the person has engaged or is engaging in conduct relating to the company's

activities which makes it not reasonably practicable to carry on the activities

with the person as a member; or

(d) For such other reasons as are set forth in a written agreement.

(2) Upon the effective date of the expulsion, the expelled member shall be dissociated

from and cease to be a member of the company and with respect to the expelled

member's limited liability company interest shall be an assignee.

(3) Except as set forth in a written operating agreement, the dissociation of a member in

accordance with this section does not entitle the former member or any assignee to

any distribution.
KRS § 137.190 — KY Code / Title XI / Chapter 137 / Section 137.190
137.190 License, admission, and pari-mutuel taxes in lieu of other taxes -- Local government not to levy pari-mutuel tax
Status: in_force

137.190 License, admission, and pari-mutuel taxes in lieu of other taxes -- Local

government not to levy pari-mutuel tax.

(1) The license tax imposed by KRS 137.170, the license taxes permitted by KRS

61.182, 91.202, and 92.282, and the state taxes and contributions imposed by KRS

138.510 to 138.550 and 230.380 on pari-mutuel systems of betting shall be in lieu

of all other license, excise, special, or franchise taxes to the state or any county, city,

or other political subdivision.

(2) Except for the license taxes permitted by KRS 61.182, 91.202, and 92.282, no

county, city, or other political subdivision may levy any license, income, excise,

special, or franchise tax on any such person or corporation engaged in the business

of conducting a race track at which races are conducted for stakes, purses or prizes,

or operating as a receiving track or simulcast facility, or on the operation or

maintenance of any pari-mutuel machine or similar device, or on the money or

amount of money handled by or through any pari-mutuel machine or similar device

or on the sale of any merchandise during the conducting of races thereon by any

such person or corporation.
KRS § 5.259 — KY Code / Title II / Chapter 5 / Section 5.259
5.259 Fifty-ninth Representative District
Status: in_force

5.259 Fifty-ninth Representative District.

The Fifty-ninth Representative District shall consist of the following territory:

County: Oldham KY (part)

A101 - North Goshen

A103 - Harmony

A104 - South Harmony

B101 - Skylight

B102 - South Goshen

B104 - West Buckner

B105 - Northeast Buckner

B106 - Covered Bridge

C101 - Covington

C102 - North Lagrange

C103 - Central West

C105 - Westport

C106 - Central East

D101 - Southeast Lagrange

D103 - East Ballardsville

D104 - West Ballardsville

D106 - Main

F101 - West Lagrange

F102 - East Buckner

F103 - Glenarm

F104 - Centerfield

F105 - South Lagrange

F106 - Carriage Hill

G101 - West Brownsboro

H105 - East Brownsboro
KRS § 49.190 — KY Code / Title VI / Chapter 49 / Section 49.190
49.190 KRS 49.200 to 49.250 applicable to power and authority outlined in KRS 49.020(1)
Status: in_force

49.190 KRS 49.200 to 49.250 applicable to power and authority outlined in KRS

49.020(1).

KRS 49.200 to 49.250 shall apply to the power and authority of the Board of Tax Appeals

outlined in KRS 49.020(1).
KRS § 342.155 — KY Code / Title XXVII / Chapter 342 / Section 342.155
342.155 Payment of lump-sum compensation to trustee
Status: in_force

342.155 Payment of lump-sum compensation to trustee.

Whenever the administrative law judge considers it expedient, any lump sum which is

paid as provided in this chapter shall be paid to any suitable person appointed by the

District Court of the county of the residence of the injured employee or of his dependents

as trustee to administer or apply the same for the benefit of the person or persons entitled

thereto. The receipt of such trustee for the amount so paid to him shall discharge the

employer and his insurer. Except as otherwise herein specifically provided, the manner of

qualification and the rights, duties, and liabilities of the trustee shall be determined by the

general laws of this state.
KRS § 390.330 — KY Code / Title XXXIII / Chapter 390 / Section 390.330
390.330 Creditor claim -- General power not created by powerholder
Status: in_force

390.330 Creditor claim -- General power not created by powerholder.

(1) Appointive property subject to a general power of appointment created by a person

other than the powerholder is not subject to a claim of a creditor of the powerholder

or the powerholder's estate.

(2) A power of appointment created by a person other than the powerholder which is

subject to an ascertainable standard relating to an individual's health, education,

support, or maintenance within the meaning of 26 U.S.C. sec. 2041(b)(1)(A) or

2514(c)(1), as amended, is treated for purposes of this chapter as a nongeneral

power.
KRS § 367.530 — KY Code / Title XXIX / Chapter 367 / Section 367.530
367.530 Permanent registration books maintained
Status: in_force

367.530 Permanent registration books maintained.

All county clerks in the Commonwealth shall maintain a book or other similar record on a

permanent basis containing the registrations and other information required to be filed

under KRS 367.513. Said book shall be a public record.
KRS § 311.615 — KY Code / Title XXVI / Chapter 311 / Section 311.615
311.615 Continuation of existing licenses -- Limitation of authority
Status: in_force

311.615 Continuation of existing licenses -- Limitation of authority.

(1) All licenses heretofore issued by the board for the practice of medicine or

osteopathy, or any limited school or system, are hereby declared to be valid and in

full force and effect unless they have become expired, canceled, suspended or

revoked in accordance with law.

(2) Nothing in KRS 311.550 to 311.620 shall be construed as hereafter conferring upon

the board any authority to issue, suspend or revoke any license for the practice of

dentistry, optometry, chiropractic, nursing or pharmacy.
KRS § 72.475 — KY Code / Title IX / Chapter 72 / Section 72.475
72.475 Short title
Status: in_force

72.475 Short title.

KRS 72.400 to 72.470 may be cited as "The Kentucky Coroner's Act of 1978."
KRS § 376.470 — KY Code / Title XXXI / Chapter 376 / Section 376.470
376.470 Veterinarian's lien
Status: in_force

376.470 Veterinarian's lien.

(1) Any licensed veterinarian who performs professional services for an animal, by

contract with, or by the written consent of, the owner or authorized agent shall have

a lien on the animal to secure the cost of the service provided.

(2) The priority among veterinarian's liens filed under this section shall be according to

the first lien filed.