Title III, Executive Branch

For the purposes of KRS 15.530 to 15.590: (1) "CJIS" means the Criminal Justice Information System; (2) "CJIS-full access course" means an online training program administered and approved by the Kentucky State Police CJIS Services Agency; (3) "Commissioner" means the commissione…

to disclosure -- Training requirements. (1) An agency seeking to hire a telecommunicator shall certify to the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council within one hundred twenty (120) days after the hire date that the applicant: (a) Is a citizen of the United States and has reached the ag…

(1) The basic course offered by the training program shall consist of no less than forty (40) hours of instruction or training and shall consist of subjects appropriate for the basic training of law enforcement telecommunicators in the technique of emergency services communicatio…

Sunset -- Members -- Development of new training delivery format -- Part- time telecommunicator training. (1) The Public Safety Telecommunicator Work Group is hereby established as an independent entity to develop a new delivery format for the public safety telecommunicator acade…

telecommunicator overview training -- Annual in-service training course. (1) (a) All full-time public safety telecommunicators not previously certified as a telecommunicator by the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council shall complete the full-time public safety telecommunicator academ…

CJIS. (1) All telecommunicators who have access to CJIS shall successfully complete eight (8) hours of CJIS in-service training every year at a school certified or recognized by the Kentucky State Police CJIS Services Agency. (2) Extensions of time in which to complete the traini…

comparable program. The secretary of justice and public safety shall, with the approval of the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council, waive the basic telecommunicator training program and certify applicants who furnish evidence of satisfactory completion of a basic law enforcement tel…

The Kentucky Law Enforcement Council and the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet shall maintain a roster of all certified telecommunicators.

(1) A PSAP as defined by KRS 65.750 or an agency receiving or dispatching emergency medical service calls may enter into a reciprocal agreement with another PSAP, dedicated phone line, or call center to provide telephone cardiopulmonary resuscitation (T-CPR) utilizing nationally …

(1) KRS 15.530 to 15.590 shall be administered by the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council, which shall promulgate administrative regulations as necessary regarding training, in-service training, and telecommunications practices. (2) The Kentucky Law Enforcement Council may, by admin…

As used in KRS 15.610 to 15.635 unless the context requires otherwise: (1) "Inspection" means any regular, on-site investigation periodically conducted, or any request for information periodically solicited in lieu of an on-site investigation, by or on behalf of any public agency…

(1) No inspecting agency shall conduct an inspection or employ a standard relating to a condition over which another inspecting agency or the federal government has primary jurisdiction, except under an agreement with the entity having primary jurisdiction, or an order of the Att…

(1) Effective January 1, 1977, no inspecting agency shall employ in its inspections any standard that conflicts with any other standard it employs in the same inspection or with standards employed by another inspecting agency or by the federal government. (2) Inspecting agencies …

(1) Any person aggrieved by a determination of the Attorney General under KRS 15.610 to 15.620 may appeal the determination to the Franklin Circuit Court or to the Circuit Court of the county in which the appellant resides. The court, sitting without a jury, shall dispose of the …

(1) If any inspecting agency conducts or threatens to conduct an inspection, or employs or threatens to employ a standard, in violation of KRS 15.605 to 15.635, the Attorney General, on his own initiative or upon a sworn complaint with good cause shown by any person aggrieved by …

All sections of the Kentucky Revised Statutes in conflict with KRS 15.605 to 15.630 are repealed to the extent that they are inconsistent with KRS 15.605 to 15.630.

It is hereby declared to be the policy of this Commonwealth to encourage cooperation among law enforcement officers and to provide for the general supervision of criminal justice by the Attorney General as chief law enforcement officer of the Commonwealth, in order to maintain un…

(1) For the purpose of administration of the unified prosecutorial system, there is hereby created the Prosecutors Advisory Council, hereafter referred to as the council. (2) The council shall consist of thirteen (13) members who shall be residents of Kentucky and shall include: …

minors. (1) The Prosecutors Advisory Council shall collect statistical data regarding the investigation, prosecution, dismissal, conviction, or acquittal of any person charged with committing, attempting to commit, or complicity to a sexual offense defined by KRS Chapter 510 invo…

The Prosecutors Advisory Council shall have the power to issue subpoenas requiring the attendance of such witnesses and the production of such records, books, papers, and documents as it may deem necessary for investigation of any matter that it is authorized to consider or reaso…

The Prosecutors Advisory Council may apply for and receive funds, public or private, for the purpose of assisting Commonwealth's and county attorneys in providing crime victim assistance or in criminal prosecution. The council may provide matching funds as a condition of any gran…

The council in its sole discretion may delegate the following functions to the Office of the Attorney General: (1) Prepare budget estimates of state appropriations necessary for the maintenance and operation of the unified prosecutorial system and make recommendations in respect …

complaint against local prosecutor -- Performance of duties of local prosecutor until vacancy filled. (1) In the event of the incapacity, refusal without sufficient grounds, inability, conflict of interest of the local prosecutor, or his failure to act in a certain case or cases,…

The Attorney General, in consultation with legal, victims services, victim advocacy, and mental health professionals with an expertise in domestic violence, shall develop a prosecutor's manual for Commonwealth's Attorneys and county attorneys establishing the policies and procedu…

county attorneys and their staffs -- Completion requirements. (1) The Attorney General shall provide initial training courses and, at least once every two (2) years, continuing education courses for Commonwealth's attorneys and county attorneys and their staffs concerning: (a) Th…

(1) The Attorney General shall submit: (a) To the Governor and to the General Assembly a biennial report setting forth the activities of the unified prosecutorial system for the preceding fiscal years; to be included in this report are the activities of the Prosecutors Advisory C…

share or redistribute prosecutorial duties -- Circuit clerk's authority to issue criminal warrants. (1) The Commonwealth's attorney shall attend each Circuit Court held in his judicial circuit. He shall, except as provided in KRS 15.715 and KRS Chapter 131, have the duty to prose…

abuse multidisciplinary team. Pursuant to KRS 431.600, each Commonwealth's attorney and each county attorney shall assist any child sexual abuse multidisciplinary team established in his circuit or county, unless the Prosecutors Advisory Council has voted to relieve him of this r…

of violation of charitable gaming laws. All law enforcement agencies and investigative bodies shall notify the Office of Charitable Gaming of any investigation or prosecution of any violation of the charitable gaming laws as soon as reasonably possible after commencing the invest…

Each regular Commonwealth's attorney and county attorney shall be, ex officio, a special prosecutor of the Commonwealth, and as such shall perform such duties and render such services, at such time and places, coextensive with the Commonwealth as may be required by the Attorney G…

prosecutor. (1) For the purposes of this section the following words or phrases shall have the meaning indicated: (a) "Proceeding" includes pretrial, trial, appellate review, or other stages of litigation; (b) "Fiduciary" includes such relationships as executor, administrator, co…

charge -- Appointment of special prosecutor for duration of disqualification. (1) In the event a Commonwealth's attorney or an assistant Commonwealth's attorney, or a county attorney or an assistant county attorney is indicted by a duly-empaneled state or federal grand jury on an…

Upon certification by the Commonwealth's attorney and county attorneys to the Attorney General and for good cause shown that he, as the regular elected Commonwealth's attorney or county attorney, and his assistant or assistants, if any, should not participate in a particular pros…

The Commonwealth's attorney and county attorney shall not act as defense counsel in any criminal prosecution in any state or federal court in this Commonwealth, except in cases in which he is a party.

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as eliminating or limiting any of the other duties of the Commonwealth's attorney or county attorney as set out in the Kentucky Revised Statutes.

(1) Each Commonwealth's attorney and each county attorney shall submit a proposed budget for his office to the Prosecutors Advisory Council to be included in the total budget of the unified prosecutorial system and submitted as part of the budget of the Office of the Attorney Gen…

Commonwealth's attorneys, county attorneys, and their staffs. (1) This section shall apply to: (a) The Attorney General and his or her staff; (b) A county attorney and his or her staff; and (c) A Commonwealth's attorney and his or her staff. (2) A person named in subsection (1) o…

allowance -- Compensation adjusted -- Private law practice regulated. (1) The compensation of each Commonwealth's attorney shall be paid out of the State Treasury. (2) The compensation of the staff of each Commonwealth's attorney shall be paid out of the State Treasury. (3) In ea…

Commonwealth's attorney. (1) (a) Any part-time Commonwealth's attorney may voluntarily become a full-time Commonwealth's attorney effective January 1, 1997, or at the beginning of any subsequent budget cycle by: 1. Not engaging in the private practice of law after the time he bec…

and witness rooms -- Victim advocate. (1) Each Commonwealth's attorney shall, during the calendar year 1977 and through June 30, 1978, be entitled to at least the number of assistant Commonwealth's attorney positions, stenographic, secretarial, and clerical staff positions, and i…

-- Private practice of law permitted. (1) Each county attorney shall receive for prosecutorial duties an annual salary to be paid out of the State Treasury which shall be the total compensation as county attorney which he received during the calendar year 1976, but which in no ev…

positions. (1) Each county attorney, with the approval of the Prosecutors Advisory Council, may appoint one (1) assistant county attorney for each District Judge in excess of one (1) in his judicial district unless prior approval is obtained from the Prosecutors Advisory Council …

the elderly. (1) The Prosecutors Advisory Council shall develop, in conjunction with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, educational programs on the investigation and prosecution of abuse, neglect, and exploitation of the elderly and other crimes against the elderly. (2) …

As used in KRS 15.800 to 15.876, unless the context clearly dictates otherwise: (1) "Cabinet" shall mean the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; (2) "Consumer reporting agency" means any person or organization which, for monetary fees, dues, or on a cooperative nonprofit basi…

support payments -- State disbursement unit -- Cooperation with courts and officials -- Reporting of obligors -- Denial, suspension, and revocation of licenses -- Data match system -- Subpoenas -- Distribution of child support program information. (1) The duties of the Department…

All forms, child support orders, wage withholding orders, or orders amending an existing child support order, entered in any case in Circuit Court, District Court, or family court that require entry into the state case registry under KRS 15.802(3) shall be entered on forms adopte…