FrankGoortani/open-us-law huggingface dataset:
KRS § 70.540 — KY Code / Title IX / Chapter 70 / Section 70.540
70.540 County police force authorized -- Jurisdiction -- Appointment -- Qualifications -- Term -- Oath -- Officers
Status: in_force

70.540 County police force authorized -- Jurisdiction -- Appointment --

Qualifications -- Term -- Oath -- Officers.

The county judges/executive of the respective counties shall have and are hereby given

the power, jurisdiction and authority to establish, appoint and maintain a county police

force within their respective counties, all of the members and officers of which shall have

and are hereby given jurisdiction coextensive with the whole county for which they are

appointed. Such police force may consist of a chief and such member, rank and grade

subordinate to the chief, and such clerical and skilled employees as the county

judge/executive shall deem proper. All of the members and employees of the county

police force shall be appointed by the county judge/executive and shall serve for a term of

one (1) year from the date of their respective appointments, unless sooner removed by the

county judge/executive for neglect of duty or improper conduct. All members of the force

shall be citizens of the United States not less than twenty-one (21) years of age and

residents of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. None but discreet and sober persons shall

be appointed to any position on said county police force. Each of the members of the said

county police force shall take an oath, before the county judge/executive of their county,

to faithfully, impartially and diligently perform the duties of their respective offices.

Provided, however, that the chief officer of the county police force of any county may be

designated, in the discretion of the county judge/executive of said county, as captain or

any other appropriate title, and such county police force in any county may consist of one

(1) or more commanding officers, as the county judge/executive of such county may

deem proper or adequate.
KRS § 157.655 — KY Code / Title XIII / Chapter 157 / Section 157.655
157.655 Education technology program
Status: in_force

157.655 Education technology program.

(1) To participate in the education technology funding program, a local public school

district shall have an unmet technology need described in its local district

technology plan and approved by the Kentucky Board of Education pursuant to its

technology master plan, and shall match equally the amount of funds offered by the

School Facilities Construction Commission for this purpose each biennium, except

as provided in subsection (2) of this section. Technology approved for the Kentucky

Education Technology System and included in the local district technology plan,

which was acquired prior to April 3, 1992, and for which the district has an

outstanding financial obligation, shall qualify for commission funding. This

provision shall not apply to any purchases or contracts made between April 3, 1992,

and the first offers of assistance recommended by the Council for Education

Technology to the State Board for Elementary and Secondary Education.

(2) For fiscal year 1992-93, funding shall be allotted to districts without an approved

plan upon the recommendation of the Council for Education Technology to the

State Board for Elementary and Secondary Education.

(3) If a local board of education determines that for any reason the district's approved

technology plan is grossly inconsistent with the administrative regulations

governing the development of the plan, the local board may certify, by official

action, the reason for the inconsistency and may request that the Department of

Education reevaluate the technology plan of the district. After review of the data,

the chief state school officer may require a reevaluation and the approval of a new

technology plan certified prior to an official offer from the School Facilities

Construction Commission. If the chief state school officer elects to recommend the

new technology plan to the Kentucky Board of Education, the board shall notify the

School Facilities Construction Commission of any change required in the offer of

assistance for the district.
KRS § 179.160 — KY Code / Title XV / Chapter 179 / Section 179.160
179.160 Engineer not to employ relatives -- Reports to fiscal court
Status: in_force

179.160 Engineer not to employ relatives -- Reports to fiscal court.

(1) No county engineer shall employ as a laborer on the public roads, his father, son,

son-in-law, grandson, brother, brother-in-law, nephew, or first cousin by blood.

(2) On January 1 and July 1 and at such other times as the fiscal court or the county

judge/executive requires, the county engineer shall present a full itemized statement

of the expenditures made by him since his last report, giving number and names of

employees and number of horses employed by him, the time each was employed,

the amount paid to and for each, and such other matter as he deems necessary or the

court requires. Statements of account shall be prepared according to the public

accounting laws of the state, and be certified to by the agent of the county engineer

having charge of the work.
KRS § 439.335 — KY Code / Title XL / Chapter 439 / Section 439.335
439.335 Scientific means of personality analysis to be used to establish level, intensity, terms, and conditions of supervision
Status: in_force

439.335 Scientific means of personality analysis to be used to establish level,

intensity, terms, and conditions of supervision.

(1) In considering the granting of parole and the terms of parole, the parole board shall

use the results from an inmate's validated risk and needs assessment and any other

scientific means for personality analysis that may hereafter be developed.

(2) The department shall use the results from an inmate's validated risk and needs

assessment and any other scientific means for personality analysis that may

hereafter be developed to define the level or intensity of supervision for parole, and

to establish any terms or conditions of supervision imposed by the department in

accordance with the administrative regulations adopted by the department pursuant

to KRS 439.470 or as otherwise authorized by law. The terms and intensity of

supervision shall be based on an individual's level of risk to public safety, criminal

risk factors, and the need for treatment and other interventions.
KRS § 230.783 — KY Code / Title XIX / Chapter 230 / Section 230.783
230.783 Wagers considered made in Kentucky -- Prohibited wagers -- Revocation of hub license -- Applicability of KRS 137.170, 138.510, and Chapter 230
Status: in_force

230.783 Wagers considered made in Kentucky -- Prohibited wagers -- Revocation

of hub license -- Applicability of KRS 137.170, 138.510, and Chapter 230.

(1) Any wager that is made for an account maintained with the hub operator shall be

considered to have been made in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

(2) Account holders may communicate instructions concerning account wagers to the

hub only by telephonic or other electronic means.

(3) None of the following wagers shall be processed through a hub:

(a) A wager on live racing accepted by a track;

(b) A telephone account wager accepted by a track;

(c) An intertrack wager accepted by a receiving track or simulcast facility; or

(d) An interstate wager accepted by a receiving track or simulcast facility.

(4) Any hub that processes any of the wagers delineated in subsection (3) of this section

from a track, receiving track, or simulcast facility shall be subject to revocation of

its hub license.

(5) Except as provided in KRS 230.752, nothing in KRS 230.775 to 230.785 shall

exempt racetracks or simulcast facilities from any taxes imposed under KRS

137.170, 138.510, or Chapter 230.
KRS § 162.480 — KY Code / Title XIII / Chapter 162 / Section 162.480
162.480 Proof of loss -- Appropriations of fund
Status: in_force

162.480 Proof of loss -- Appropriations of fund.

When an injury occurs to any building or its contents from fire, tornado, windstorm,

cyclone, casualty, explosion, riot, or flood, the business director or secretary of the board

of education shall, within thirty (30) days thereafter, prepare and file with the board a

sworn written proof of loss, showing in detail the items of injury, and in detail an estimate

of the extent of the financial loss and whether and to what extent the loss is covered by

insurance, with the names of the companies, the number of the policies, and names of the

agents. Before the board of education may appropriate any portion of the insurance fund,

a committee appointed by the board shall report to the board in writing, making

recommendations and answering in detail the following questions:

(1) What is the entire loss on the building? When and what caused it?

(2) What deduction should be made for wear and tear and the natural processes of

decadence or deterioration?

(3) What portion of the loss proposed to be made good from this fund resulted from

causes covered by this fund?

(4) Will it be practicable to make the restoration from the general fund and the proceeds

of any insurance policies without assistance from this fund?

(5) If assistance is needed from this fund, how much? How will the portion so used be

returned to the fund?

(6) Does the committee recommend an appropriation from this fund to aid in the

restoration proposed? If so, how much?
KRS § 23A.050 — KY Code / Title IV / Chapter 23A / Section 23A.050
23A.050 Judicial circuits with four Circuit Judges and four numbered divisions
Status: in_force

23A.050 Judicial circuits with four Circuit Judges and four numbered divisions.

The following judicial circuits are entitled to four (4) judges and shall have four (4)

numbered divisions of the Circuit Court:

(1) Third Judicial Circuit.

(2) Sixth Judicial Circuit.

(3) Ninth Judicial Circuit.

(4) Fourteenth Judicial Circuit.

(5) Twenty-seventh Judicial Circuit.

(6) Twenty-eighth Judicial Circuit.

(7) Fifty-fourth Judicial Circuit.
KRS § 5.223 — KY Code / Title II / Chapter 5 / Section 5.223
5.223 Twenty-third Representative District
Status: in_force

5.223 Twenty-third Representative District.

The Twenty-third Representative District shall consist of the following territory:

County: Barren KY
KRS § 109.042 — KY Code / Title IX / Chapter 109 / Section 109.042
109.042 Enforcement representative -- Regulations -- Financing for program
Status: in_force

109.042 Enforcement representative -- Regulations -- Financing for program.

(1) A county or waste management district may employ an enforcement representative

to ensure compliance with applicable administrative regulations of the cabinet

relating to construction and operation of solid waste management facilities. The

local government representative shall have the authority to inspect loads of solid

waste and prevent any loads, which fail to comply with administrative regulations,

from being disposed of at the solid waste management facility. The local

government representative shall possess at least minimum qualifications required of

representatives of the cabinet performing similar functions.

(2) The cabinet shall adopt administrative regulations for local government inspection

of solid waste management facilities and enforcement procedures. The

administrative regulations shall include but not be limited to, requiring local

enforcement representatives to report violations of state solid waste management

facilities laws and administrative regulations immediately to the cabinet and

requiring the cabinet to respond to the report within forty-eight (48) hours of its

receipt.

(3) A county or waste management district which elects to implement a local inspection

and enforcement program for solid waste management facilities may finance the

program from the license fees provided for in KRS 68.178.
KRS § 262.755 — KY Code / Title XXI / Chapter 262 / Section 262.755
262.755 Compensation of members of board of directors -- Expenses
Status: in_force

262.755 Compensation of members of board of directors -- Expenses.

Members of the board of directors shall receive no salaries, but such members may be

reimbursed for actual and necessary expenditures incurred in the performance of their

duties, or may be paid a per diem for attending meetings, as approved by the board of

supervisors.
KRS § 388.370 — KY Code / Title XXXIII / Chapter 388 / Section 388.370
388.370 Title of chapter
Status: in_force

388.370 Title of chapter.

This chapter may be cited as the "Uniform Veterans' Guardianship Act."
KRS § 211.755 — KY Code / Title XVIII / Chapter 211 / Section 211.755
211.755 Breast-feeding permitted -- Municipal ordinances not to prohibit or restrict -- Interference prohibited
Status: in_force

211.755 Breast-feeding permitted -- Municipal ordinances not to prohibit or

restrict -- Interference prohibited.

(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of the law, a mother may breast-feed her baby

or express breast milk in any location, public or private, where the mother is

otherwise authorized to be. Breast-feeding a child or expressing breast milk as part

of breast-feeding shall not be considered an act of public indecency and shall not be

considered indecent exposure, sexual conduct, lewd touching, or obscenity.

(2) A municipality may not enact an ordinance that prohibits or restricts a mother

breast-feeding a child or expressing breast milk in a public or private location where

the mother and child are otherwise authorized to be. In a municipal ordinance,

indecent exposure, sexual conduct, lewd touching, obscenity, and similar terms do

not include the act of a mother breast-feeding a child in a public or private location

where the mother and child are otherwise authorized to be.

(3) No person shall interfere with a mother breast-feeding her child in any location,

public or private, where the mother is otherwise authorized to be.
KRS § 510.030 — KY Code / Title L / Chapter 510 / Section 510.030
510.030 Defenses to prosecution based on victim's lack of consent
Status: in_force

510.030 Defenses to prosecution based on victim's lack of consent.

In any prosecution under this chapter in which the victim's lack of consent is based solely

on his incapacity to consent because he was less than sixteen (16) years old, an individual

with an intellectual disability, mentally incapacitated, or physically helpless, the

defendant may prove in exculpation that at the time he engaged in the conduct

constituting the offense he did not know of the facts or conditions responsible for such

incapacity to consent.
KRS § 362.467 — KY Code / Title XXIX / Chapter 362 / Section 362.467
362.467 Distribution upon withdrawal
Status: in_force

362.467 Distribution upon withdrawal.

Except as provided in KRS 362.473, upon withdrawal, a withdrawing partner shall

receive any distribution to which he is entitled in writing under the partnership

agreement.
KRS § 376.320 — KY Code / Title XXXI / Chapter 376 / Section 376.320
376.320 Notice of sale of article for charges -- Distribution of proceeds
Status: in_force

376.320 Notice of sale of article for charges -- Distribution of proceeds.

(1) The mailing of a registered letter with the return address marked thereon, addressed

to the owner at the address given at the time of delivery of the article to the person

rendering any service set out in KRS 376.300 or 376.310, stating the time and place

of sale, shall constitute notice of the sale. The notice shall be mailed at least fifteen

(15) days before the date of sale. The cost of mailing the letter shall be added to the

charges.

(2) The person to whom the charges are payable shall, from the proceeds of sale, deduct

the charges due plus the cost of notifying the owner, and hold the balance, if any,

subject to the order of the owner. He shall immediately thereafter mail to the owner

at his address, if known, notification of the sale and notice of the balance due him,

and at any time within twelve (12) months, upon demand pay to the owner the

balance. If the balance is unclaimed after twelve (12) months it shall be paid into

the State Treasury, and held for a period of two (2) years subject to the order of the

owner or his personal representative upon satisfactory proof of rightful ownership.
KRS § 244.250 — KY Code / Title XX / Chapter 244 / Section 244.250
244.250 Producer or wholesaler not to furnish sign to licensee except under administrative regulations
Status: in_force

244.250 Producer or wholesaler not to furnish sign to licensee except under

administrative regulations.

No distiller, rectifier, winery, or wholesaler shall furnish or cause to be furnished to any

licensee any exterior or interior sign, printed, painted, electric or otherwise, except as

authorized by the administrative regulations of the board.
KRS § 411.060 — KY Code / Title XXXVI / Chapter 411 / Section 411.060
411.060 Action for libel -- Privileged communications
Status: in_force

411.060 Action for libel -- Privileged communications.

The publication of a fair and impartial report of any proceeding before any state or city

legislative or executive body, board or officer, or the whole or a fair synopsis of any bill,

report, resolution, bulletin, notice, petition, or other document presented, filed, or used in

any proceeding before any state or city legislative or executive body, board or officer,

shall be privileged, unless it is proved that the publication was maliciously made. The

publication of a fair and impartial report or the whole or a synopsis of any indictment,

warrant, affidavit, pleading or other document in any criminal or civil action in any court

of competent jurisdiction shall be privileged, unless it is proved that it was published

maliciously, or that the defendant after request by the plaintiff has failed to publish a

reasonable explanation or contradiction thereof, giving the explanation or contradiction

the same prominence and space as the original publication, or that the publisher has

refused after request by the plaintiff to publish the subsequent determination of the

proceeding. This section shall not authorize the publication of any indecent matter.
KRS § 386.050 — KY Code / Title XXXIII / Chapter 386 / Section 386.050
386.050 Housing authority obligations -- Authorized investments -- Security for public deposits -- Negotiable -- United States bonds
Status: in_force

386.050 Housing authority obligations -- Authorized investments -- Security for

public deposits -- Negotiable -- United States bonds.

(1) This state and all public officers, cities, political subdivisions and public bodies, all

banks, trust companies, savings institutions, savings and loan associations,

investment companies and other persons carrying on a banking business, all

insurance companies, and other persons carrying on an insurance business and all

fiduciaries may legally invest any sinking funds, moneys or other funds belonging

to them or within their control in any bonds or other obligations issued by a housing

authority pursuant to the Municipal Housing Authority Act or the Rural Housing

Authority Act, and any additional amendments thereto, or issued by any public

housing authority or agency in the United States, when these bonds or other

obligations are secured by a pledge of annual contributions to be paid by the United

States or any agency thereof, or in any electric revenue bonds or other obligations

issued by the Tennessee Valley Authority.

(2) These bonds and other obligations shall be authorized security for all public

deposits and shall be fully negotiable in this state.

(3) Nothing in this section with regard to legal investments shall relieve any individual

or corporation from any duty of exercising reasonable care in selecting securities.

(4) Any county, municipality, or other taxing district may legally invest its sinking

funds, money, or other funds belonging to it or within its control in United States

Defense Bonds or any other bonds or obligations for the payment of which the faith

and credit of the United States Government is pledged.
KRS § 501.090 — KY Code / Title L / Chapter 501 / Section 501.090
501.090 Liability -- Duress
Status: in_force

501.090 Liability -- Duress.

(1) In any prosecution for an offense other than an intentional homicide, it is a defense

that the defendant engaged in the proscribed conduct because he was coerced to do

so by the use of, or a threat of the use of, unlawful physical force against him or

another person which a person in his situation could not reasonably be expected to

resist.

(2) The defense provided by subsection (1) is unavailable if the defendant intentionally

or wantonly placed himself in a situation in which it was probable that he would be

subjected to coercion.
KRS § 383.020 — KY Code / Title XXXII / Chapter 383 / Section 383.020
383.020 Property subject to distress or attachment for rent -- Damages for illegal distraint, attachment, or wrongful removal
Status: in_force

383.020 Property subject to distress or attachment for rent -- Damages for illegal

distraint, attachment, or wrongful removal.

(1) A distress warrant or attachment for rent shall bind, and may be levied upon, any

personal property of the original tenant found in the county, and the personal

property of the assignee or undertenant found on the leased premises. If the tenant

has removed his property to another county, the distress or attachment may be

directed to that county.

(2) If property is distrained for any rent not due, or attached for any rent not due or

accruing, or taken under any attachment sued out without good cause, the owner of

the property may, in an action against the party suing out the warrant of distress or

the attachment, recover double damages for the wrongful seizure, and if the

property is sold, for double the value thereof.

(3) Any person who wrongfully takes or removes property distrained or attached for

rent, from any person having the legal custody of it, shall be liable to the person

aggrieved for treble damages, with costs. If the property distrained, after the

wrongful taking or removal, comes to the possession of the owner by his wrongful

procurement, he shall in like manner be liable to the person aggrieved.