KRS § 205.010 — KY Code / Title XVII / Chapter 205 / Section 205.010
205.010 Definitions for chapter
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205.010 Definitions for chapter.

As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise:

(1) "Cabinet" means the Cabinet for Health and Family Services;

(2) "Secretary" means the secretary for health and family services or his authorized

representative;

(3) "Public assistance" means money grants, assistance in kind, or services to or for the

benefit of needy aged, needy blind, needy permanently and totally disabled persons,

needy children, or persons with whom a needy child lives or a family containing a

combination of these categories, except that the term shall not be construed to

permit the granting of financial aid where the purpose of such aid is to obtain an

abortion. For purposes of this section and KRS 205.560, "abortion" means an act,

procedure, device, or prescription administered or prescribed for a pregnant woman

by any person, including the pregnant woman herself, producing premature

expulsion of the fetus. Abortion does not include an induced premature birth

intended to produce a live viable child;

(4) "Needy child" means a child who has been deprived of parental support by reasons

prescribed by regulations within the scope of Title IV of the Social Security Act, its

amendments, and federal regulations and who does not have otherwise provided for

him a subsistence compatible with decency and health;

(5) "Parent," in addition to biological or adoptive parent, shall include stepparent;

(6) "Needy aged" means a person who has attained the age of sixty-five (65) and who is

unable to provide for himself and who does not have otherwise provided for him a

subsistence compatible with decency and health;

(7) "Needy blind" means a person who has no vision or whose vision is so defective as

to prevent the performance of ordinary activities for which eyesight is essential and

who is unable to provide for himself and who does not have otherwise provided for

him a subsistence compatible with decency and health;

(8) "Person with whom a needy child lives" means the individual prescribed by

regulation, with whom such child is living in a place of residence maintained by

such individual by himself or together with one (1) or more other persons;

(9) "Needy permanently and totally disabled" means a person eighteen (18) years of age

or older and who has a permanent physical or mental impairment, disease, or loss

that substantially precludes him from engaging in useful occupations within his

competence and who is unable to provide for himself and who does not have

otherwise provided for him a subsistence compatible with decency and health;

(10) "Private institution" means any establishment or place other than a public institution

operated or maintained by any individual, association, corporation, or other

organization which provides a group living arrangement for four (4) or more

individuals, who are cared for and maintained in residence for compensation or

otherwise;

(11) "Public institution" means any establishment or place which is the responsibility of

and administered by the state or any political subdivision thereof providing a group

living arrangement in which one (1) or more individuals are cared for and

maintained in residence;

(12) "Public medical institution" means any public institution the primary purpose of

which is to furnish hospital care and medical treatment;

(13) "Person determined to be potentially responsible" means any person who:

(a) Is not aged, blind, disabled, incapacitated, or needed in the home:

1. Because of the illness or incapacity of a member of the family; or

2. Because of children in the home under the age of six (6); or

(b) Volunteers for such determination;

(14) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to deprive a woman of all appropriate

medical care necessary to prevent her physical death;

(15) "Adult day-care center" means any adult care facility which provides part-time care,

day or night, but less than twenty-four (24) hours, to at least four (4) adults not

related to the operator of the adult care facility by blood, marriage, or adoption.