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KRS § 324A.158 — KY Code / Title XXVI / Chapter 324A / Section 324A.158
324A.158 Prohibitions against certain conduct by registrants
Status: in_force

324A.158 Prohibitions against certain conduct by registrants.

(1) An employee, director, officer, or agent of an appraisal management company or

any other third party acting as a joint venture partner with or as an independent

contractor for an appraisal management company shall not improperly influence or

attempt to improperly influence the development, reporting, result, or review of a

real estate appraisal, including but not limited to the use of intimidation, coercion,

extortion, bribery, blackmail, threat of nonpayment or withholding payment for

appraisal services, or threat of exclusion from future appraisal work.

(2) The registrant shall not:

(a) Request, allow, or require an appraiser to collect any portion of the fee

charged by the appraisal management company, including the appraisal fee,

from a borrower, homeowner, or other third party;

(b) Require an appraiser to provide the registrant with the appraiser's digital

signature or seal;

(c) Alter, amend, or change an appraisal report submitted by a licensed or

certified appraiser, by the following or any other actions:

1. Removing the appraiser's signature;

2. Adding or removing information to or from the appraisal report; or

3. Altering the final value opinion reported by an appraiser;

(d) Remove an appraiser from an appraiser panel without prior written notice to

the appraiser. An appraiser may only be removed from an appraiser panel with

written notice for:

1. A violation of the minimum USPAP standards or other applicable

statutes or administrative regulations resulting in a suspension or

revocation of the appraiser's license in Kentucky; or

2. Other substandard or otherwise improper performance as may be

determined by administrative regulations promulgated by the board;

(e) Enter into contracts or agreements with an appraiser for the performance of

appraisal services unless the appraiser is licensed or certified in good standing

with the board;

(f) Request that an appraiser provide an estimated, predetermined, or desired

valuation in an appraisal report or provide estimated values or comparable

sales at any time before the appraiser completes an appraisal report;

(g) Provide to an appraiser an anticipated, estimated, encouraged, or desired value

for a property or a proposed or target amount to be loaned or borrowed, except

that a copy of the sales contract for purchase transactions may be provided;

(h) Commit an act or practice that impairs or attempts to impair an appraiser's

independence, objectivity, or impartiality; or

(i) Have a direct or indirect interest, financial or otherwise, in the property or

transaction involving the appraisal.

(3) Subsection (1) of this section shall not prohibit an appraisal management company

from requesting that an appraiser:

(a) Provide additional information about the basis for a valuation;

(b) Correct objective factual errors in an appraisal report; or

(c) Provide further detail, substantiation, or explanation for the appraiser's value

conclusion.
KRS § 243.042 — KY Code / Title XX / Chapter 243 / Section 243.042
243.042 Qualified historic site license
Status: in_force

243.042 Qualified historic site license.

(1) A qualified historic site license may be issued to any establishment meeting the

criteria established in KRS 241.010 as long as the establishment is within:

(a) Any wet territory; or

(b) Any precinct that has authorized the sale of alcoholic beverages under

KRS 242.1242.

(2) A qualified historic site license shall authorize the licensee to:

(a) Sell alcoholic beverages by the drink at one (1) or more permanent or

nonpermanent locations on the premises over which the licensee, by

lease or ownership, has exclusive control without obtaining additional

supplemental bar licenses prescribed by KRS 243.037;

(b) Sell alcoholic beverages by the drink to patrons at public or private

functions held on the premises; and

(c) Purchase and store alcoholic beverages in the manner prescribed in KRS

243.088, 243.250, and 244.260.
KRS § 320.350 — KY Code / Title XXVI / Chapter 320 / Section 320.350
320.350 Places where optometry not to be practiced
Status: in_force

320.350 Places where optometry not to be practiced.

No person shall practice optometry on premises not separate from premises whereon

eyeglasses, lenses, eyeglass frames or any other merchandise or products are sold by any

other person. For the purposes of this section, any room or suite of rooms in which

optometry is practiced shall be considered separate premises if it has a separate and direct

entrance from a street or public hallway or corridor within a building, which corridor is

partitioned off by partitions from floor to ceiling.
KRS § 171.500 — KY Code / Title XIV / Chapter 171 / Section 171.500
171.500 Central depository
Status: in_force

171.500 Central depository.

The department is hereby constituted the central depository for public records. It shall be

the duty of all departments, boards, commissions, officers or other agencies of the

Commonwealth to supply to the central depository copies of each of their reports and

publications issued for general public distribution after July 1, 1958, in the number and in

the manner prescribed by rule or regulation promulgated by the department pursuant to

KRS 171.450. College, university, and public libraries may be constituted depository

libraries by written order of the department. The central depository shall supply copies to

such depository libraries in the number and in the manner prescribed by rule or regulation

promulgated by the department pursuant to KRS 171.450.
KRS § 262.570 — KY Code / Title XXI / Chapter 262 / Section 262.570
262.570 Effect of discontinuance
Status: in_force

262.570 Effect of discontinuance.

Upon issuance of a certificate of dissolution under KRS 262.560, all ordinances and

regulations theretofore adopted and in force within those districts shall be of no further

force and effect. All contracts theretofore entered into, to which the district is a party,

shall remain in force and effect for the period provided in those contracts. The

commission shall be substituted for the district as a party to such contracts. The

commission shall be entitled to all benefits and subject to all duties and liabilities under

such contracts which the board would have had. The dissolution shall not affect the lien

of any judgment entered under KRS 262.440 or 262.450, nor the pendency of any action

instituted under KRS 262.430, and the commission shall succeed to all the rights and

obligations of the board as to those liens and actions.
KRS § 386.4420 — KY Code / Title XXXIII / Chapter 386 / Section 386.4420
386.4420 Laws governing foreign business trust
Status: in_force

386.4420 Laws governing foreign business trust.

(1) Subject to the Constitution of this Commonwealth:

(a) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, the laws of the state or

other jurisdiction under which a foreign business trust is organized shall

govern its organization and internal affairs, including the liability of its

trustees and beneficial owners for the debts and obligations of the business

trust and the inspection by a trustee or a beneficial owner of the books and

records of the business trust; and

(b) A foreign business trust shall not be denied registration by reason of any

difference between the laws of another jurisdiction under which a foreign

business trust is organized and the laws of this Commonwealth.

(2) A certificate of authority obtained pursuant to this chapter shall not authorize a

foreign business trust to exercise any powers or engage in any business that a

domestic business trust is forbidden to exercise or engage in by the laws of this

Commonwealth.
KRS § 177.630 — KY Code / Title XV / Chapter 177 / Section 177.630
177.630 "Year" defined
Status: in_force

177.630 "Year" defined.

The word "year" as used in KRS 177.580 to 177.630 means calendar year, unless

otherwise expressly stated.
KRS § 98.060 — KY Code / Title IX / Chapter 98 / Section 98.060
98.060 Members of building commission -- Qualifications -- Term
Status: in_force

98.060 Members of building commission -- Qualifications -- Term.

The building commission shall consist of four (4) appointive members, and the mayor of

the city ex officio. Each appointive member shall be at least twenty-five (25) years of age

and reside within the city or the county in which the city is located, and be the owner of

real estate or a householder. No officer or employee of the city, whether holding a paid or

unpaid office, shall be eligible for appointment to the commission. All appointees shall be

subject to the approval of the legislative body of the city. The term of office shall be four

(4) years and until their successors are appointed and qualified. The commission may be

continued by appointments made in the same manner as the original appointment.
KRS § 168.040 — KY Code / Title XIII / Chapter 168 / Section 168.040
168.040 Membership of authority
Status: in_force

168.040 Membership of authority.

(1) The authority shall consist of nine (9) members, as follows:

The chief state school officer, ex officio, who shall initially serve as temporary

chairman and shall call and preside over the organizational meeting or meetings

until the members of the authority shall elect a chairman from among their number;

a member of the staff or personnel of the department elected by the board upon

recommendation of the chief state school officer as being qualified to serve as

liaison and coordinator between the authority and the department on matters of

curriculum, and his term shall be the same as that of the chief state school officer by

whom he is recommended, but terminable by the board in the event he is transferred

to other duties in the department, and automatically terminated in the event of his

severance from the department for any reason; a representative of the University of

Kentucky and a representative of the state universities to be elected by the Council

on Postsecondary Education; and five (5) additional members appointed by the

Governor who need possess no special or prescribed qualifications except that they

shall be citizens of Kentucky.

(2) Effective at 11:59 p.m. on June 30, 1994, all terms of gubernatorial appointees to

the authority shall expire. Effective July 1, 1994, five (5) appointees nominated

pursuant to KRS 164.005 and appointed by the Governor shall become members of

the authority.
KRS § 353.6601 — KY Code / Title XXVIII / Chapter 353 / Section 353.6601
353.6601 Advance notice to surface owner located within 1,000 feet of high-volume horizontal fracturing treatment of a horizontal well
Status: in_force

353.6601 Advance notice to surface owner located within 1,000 feet of high-volume

horizontal fracturing treatment of a horizontal well.

(1) An operator employing a high-volume horizontal fracturing treatment shall provide

notice required under subsection (3) of this section to each surface property owner

within one thousand (1,000) feet of the surface location of the proposed well, at

least twenty (20) days prior to commencement of a high-volume horizontal

fracturing treatment of a horizontal well. For purposes of this subsection, a surface

property owner is the person who is assessed for the purpose of taxes imposed

according to the records of the property valuation administrator of the county where

the property is located.

(2) The operator shall, for the purpose of giving notice, secure from the property

valuation administrator's office the names of persons entitled to notice under this

section. Notice to the persons indicated as surface property owners in the office of

the property valuation administrator shall be conclusive evidence that the operator

has met the requirements of this section.

(3) The notice to surface property owners shall include:

(a) The name and address of the operator;

(b) The surface location of the proposed well; and

(c) The name and location of the cabinet office where the permit and related

documents are available for public inspection and, if the documents are

available electronically, the Web site where the permit and related documents

may be inspected.
KRS § 278.220 — KY Code / Title XXIV / Chapter 278 / Section 278.220
278.220 Uniform system of accounts for utilities
Status: in_force

278.220 Uniform system of accounts for utilities.

The commission may establish a system of accounts to be kept by utilities subject to its

jurisdiction, or may classify utilities and establish a system of accounts for each class, and

may prescribe the manner in which such accounts shall be kept. The system established

shall conform as nearly as practicable to the uniform system of accounts prescribed by the

National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, except that the system

established for telephone and telegraph companies shall conform as nearly as practicable

to the system adopted or approved by the Federal Communications Commission and the

system established for gas and electric companies shall conform as nearly as practicable

to the system adopted or approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
KRS § 65.180 — KY Code / Title IX / Chapter 65 / Section 65.180
65.180 Definition of "taxing district."
Status: in_force

65.180 Definition of "taxing district."

As used in KRS 65.182 to 65.190, unless the context otherwise requires, the word "taxing

district" shall mean, and the provisions of KRS 65.182 to 65.190 shall apply to, any

special district authorized by statute to levy ad valorem taxes within the meaning of

Section 157 of the Constitution of Kentucky or to levy ad valorem taxes under the

provisions of KRS 68.602 and governed by the following statutes: KRS 65.182, 75.010 to

75.260, KRS Chapter 75A, 107.310 to 107.500, 108.080 to 108.180, 109.115 to 109.190,

173.450 to 173.650, 173.710 to 173.800, 179.700 to 179.990, 212.720 to 212.755,

216.310 to 216.360, 266.010 to 266.990, and 268.010 to 268.990.
KRS § 314A.220 — KY Code / Title XXVI / Chapter 314A / Section 314A.220
314A.220 Mandatory certificate fees -- Renewal, restoration, and reinstatement
Status: in_force

314A.220 Mandatory certificate fees -- Renewal, restoration, and reinstatement.

(1) The board shall issue a mandatory certificate to all applicants who meet the

requirements of this chapter and who pay to the board the initial mandatory

certificate fee.

(2) The amount of fees prescribed in connection with a mandatory certificate as a

respiratory care practitioner shall be prescribed by administrative regulation

promulgated by the board in accordance with KRS Chapter 13A.

(3) Each respiratory care mandatory certificate shall expire on January 30 every two (2)

years. No person who applies for renewal, whose mandatory certificate has expired,

shall be required to submit to any examination as a condition to renewal, provided

such renewal application is made within five (5) years from the date of such

expiration. No person shall practice respiratory care in this state unless the

individual holds a valid certificate. All mandatory certificates not renewed by

January 30 following the date of issuance shall be deemed expired.

(4) A suspended mandatory certificate is subject to expiration and shall be renewed as

provided in this chapter, but such renewal shall not entitle the respiratory care

practitioner, while the mandatory certificate remains suspended, and until it is

reinstated, to engage in mandatory certification activities, or in any other activity or

conduct in violation of the order of judgment by which the mandatory certificate

was suspended. A mandatory certificate revoked on disciplinary grounds is subject

to expiration as provided in this chapter, but it may not be renewed. If it is

reinstated after its expiration, the mandatory certificate holder, as a condition of

reinstatement, shall pay a reinstatement fee in an amount equal to the renewal fee in

effect on the last preceding regular renewal date before the date on which it is

reinstated, plus the delinquency fee, if any, accrued at the time of its revocation.

(5) A person who fails to renew his or her mandatory certificate within the five (5)

years after its expiration may not renew it, and it may not be restored, reissued, or

reinstated thereafter, but such persons may apply for and obtain a new mandatory

certificate if he meets the requirements of this chapter.
KRS § 341.611 — KY Code / Title XXVII / Chapter 341 / Section 341.611
341.611 Payment of interest on advances -- Surcharge under KRS 341.614 on contributing employers
Status: in_force

341.611 Payment of interest on advances -- Surcharge under KRS 341.614 on

contributing employers.

(1) Any interest required to be paid on advances under Title XII of the Social Security

Act shall be paid in a timely manner and shall not be paid directly or indirectly, by

an equivalent reduction in unemployment contributions or otherwise, by the state

unemployment insurance fund.

(2) Such interest and the repayment of money, including any interest thereon, received

from any source related to the payment of interest on advances under Title XII of

the Social Security Act shall be paid by the penalty and interest account as required

by KRS 341.295.

(3) In the event there are insufficient funds in the unemployment compensation

administration fund to pay the interest on such advances under Title XII of the

Social Security Act or the repayment of money, including any interest thereon,

received from any source related to the payment of interest on such advances, all

subject contributing employers shall be assessed a surcharge as provided in KRS

341.614.
KRS § 314.037 — KY Code / Title XXVI / Chapter 314 / Section 314.037
314.037 References in the Kentucky Revised Statutes to "licensed" nurses to include those credentialed or privileged
Status: in_force

314.037 References in the Kentucky Revised Statutes to "licensed" nurses to

include those credentialed or privileged.

References in the Kentucky Revised Statutes to persons "licensed" under this chapter as

nurses, registered nurses, licensed registered nurses, or licensed practical nurses shall be

interpreted to include persons credentialed or privileged under this chapter to practice

those occupations.
KRS § 100.127 — KY Code / Title IX / Chapter 100 / Section 100.127
100.127 Written agreements for joint or regional planning units -- Filing fees -- Exception when planning unit includes county with consolidated local government
Status: in_force

100.127 Written agreements for joint or regional planning units -- Filing fees --

Exception when planning unit includes county with consolidated local

government.

(1) All agreements for joint or regional planning units shall be in writing, and shall

describe the boundaries of the area involved, and shall contain all details which are

necessary for the establishment and administration of the planning unit in regard to

planning commission organization, preparation of plans, and aids to plan

implementation. The agreement shall be adopted as an ordinance by the legislative

bodies which are parties to the agreement in accordance with the procedures for the

adoption of an ordinance pursuant to KRS Chapters 67, 67A, 67C, 83, and 83A, and

filed in the office of the county clerk of all counties which are parties to the

agreement or which contain a city which is a party to the agreement. The county

clerk may charge a fee pursuant to KRS 64.012 for the filing of the agreement.

Combination under this subsection shall be permitted notwithstanding the fact that

the governmental units are also involved in area planning under KRS 147.610 to

147.705. Combined planning operations shall be jointly financed, and the agreement

shall state the method of proration of financial support.

(2) Agreements for planning units shall be in existence as long as at least two (2) of the

original signators are operating under the combination despite the fact that other

signators have withdrawn from the unit. In addition, any enlargement of a unit may

be accomplished under the existing agreement by filing a copy of the agreement in

the office of the county clerk of all member counties along with a statement as to

when it was admitted to the unit. The clerk may charge a fee pursuant to KRS

64.012 for the filing.

(3) If the planning unit, or any part thereof, has adopted regulations for historical

districts under KRS 100.201 and 100.203, the planning agreement may provide for

the creation of a three (3) or five (5) member board to advise the zoning

administrator regarding issuance of permits in such districts, the board being guided

by the standards and restrictions of the community's comprehensive plan and by the

historical district regulations adopted by the planning unit.

(4) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this section, when a planning unit includes

a county with a consolidated local government created pursuant to KRS Chapter

67C, a planning agreement is not required.
KRS § 61.530 — KY Code / Title VIII / Chapter 61 / Section 61.530
61.530 Nonelection of membership -- Penalty
Status: in_force

61.530 Nonelection of membership -- Penalty.

Any person who is an employee on the date his department first participates in the

system, either in service or on leave from service, who does not elect within the time set

forth in KRS 61.525 to become a member and thereby make contributions required of

him by KRS 61.510 to 61.705, shall forfeit all right for credit for service with any

department prior to the date he might subsequently elect to become a member, except as

provided in KRS 61.552.
KRS § 67.465 — KY Code / Title IX / Chapter 67 / Section 67.465
67.465 Authority to convey to commission fee simple title
Status: in_force

67.465 Authority to convey to commission fee simple title.

For the purpose of providing county buildings for county purposes or to remodel or

improve same, the county of which the members of such commission are residents may

convey to the county buildings commission a fee simple title, with covenant of general

warranty, to a site now held or hereafter acquired by such county.
KRS § 210.090 — KY Code / Title XVIII / Chapter 210 / Section 210.090
210.090 Partisan political activity prohibited
Status: in_force

210.090 Partisan political activity prohibited.

Neither the commissioner of the Department for Behavioral Health, Developmental and

Intellectual Disabilities of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services nor his deputy nor

any superintendent or director of an institution of the Department for Behavioral Health,

Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities shall be permitted to engage in any partisan

political activity.
KRS § 156.138 — KY Code / Title XIII / Chapter 156 / Section 156.138
156.138 Duty of Attorney General
Status: in_force

156.138 Duty of Attorney General.

The Attorney General, upon the written recommendation of either the Governor, the

Auditor of Public Accounts, the chief state school officer, or the Kentucky Board of

Education, shall institute the necessary actions to recover school funds, from any source,

which he believes have been erroneously or improperly allowed or paid to any person.
KRS § 18A.065 — KY Code / Title III / Chapter 18A / Section 18A.065
18A.065 Oaths, testimony, and production of records
Status: in_force

18A.065 Oaths, testimony, and production of records.

The board, each member of the board, the executive director and any hearing officer of

the board and the secretary shall have the power to administer oaths, subpoena witnesses,

and compel the production of books and papers pertinent to any investigation or hearing

authorized by KRS 18A.005 to 18A.200. Any person who shall fail to appear in response

to a subpoena or to answer any question or produce any books or papers pertinent to any

such investigation or hearing or who shall knowingly give false testimony therein shall be

subject to the provisions of KRS 18A.990.