Title XIV, Libraries and Archives

(1) The commission may employ a director, who shall serve as its secretary and at its pleasure, and other technical assistants as may be necessary to carry out its purposes. (2) The commission may contract, lease, accept gifts and bequests of money and acquire real and personal p…

(1) As used in this section, "structure" means a house, barn, shed, crib, silo, windmill, fence, or cemetery marker. (2) The heritage division shall establish the Kentucky Register of Heritage Farms. A heritage farm shall comprise at least forty (40) acres and (a) shall have been…

(1) The commission shall, within two (2) years of June 21, 1974, submit a written report to the Governor and the General Assembly. The report shall set out, in such detail as may be necessary; the property, historic sites, and buildings to be incorporated into the plan; the manne…

As used in KRS 171.391 to 171.393: (1) "Council" means the Kentucky Heritage Council; (2) "Historic drylaid rock fence" means any drylaid stone fence or wall at least fifty (50) years old that was originally constructed from natural stones and without mortar; (3) "Historic mortar…

(1) There is hereby established in the State Treasury a rock fence preservation fund, which shall be administered by the council. The fund may receive appropriations, gifts, grants, federal funds, revolving funds, and any other funds from public and private sources, to be used fo…

Limitation on use of grant funds. (1) The Rock Fence Preservation Program is established and shall be administered by the council. The council shall seek guidance on all technical issues regarding rock fence preservation from the Dry Stone Conservancy. The program shall provide f…

program -- Eligible costs -- Easements -- Duties of council. (1) There is hereby established in the State Treasury a trust and agency account to be known as the Kentucky battlefield preservation fund. (2) The account shall consist of moneys received from state appropriations, gif…

(1) The Thomas Edison Butchertown House in Louisville shall be designated as the official Edison Museum in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. (2) The Kentucky Railway Museum shall be designated as the official railway museum in the State of Kentucky. (3) The official museums shall be …

As used in this section and KRS 171.3961, 171.397, and 171.398: (1) "Affordable" means the occupant's housing costs, including utilities, total thirty percent (30%) or less of the occupant's gross income; (2) "Certified historic structure" means a structure that is located within…

certified rehabilitation to a qualifying certified historic structure within jurisdiction of consolidated local government or urban-county government. (1) For taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2014, a taxpayer completing a certified rehabilitation to a certified hist…

(1) Prior to December 31, 2021, the council may award one (1) application for preliminary approval of a major certified rehabilitation for a certified historic structure, for a tax credit against the taxes imposed by KRS 141.020 or 141.040 and 141.0401, with the ordering of credi…

expenses -- Tax credit -- Penalty -- Administrative regulations -- Sunset. (1) (a) For all applications for a preliminary approval received prior to April 30, 2010, there shall be allowed as a credit against the taxes imposed by KRS 141.020, 141.040, 141.0401, or 136.505, an amou…

expenses -- Tax credit for applications on or after April 30, 2026 -- Penalty -- Administrative regulations. (1) This section applies to applications received on or after April 30, 2026, but before April 15, 2027, and on or after each April 15 thereafter. (2) (a) There shall be a…

containing twenty-five stories or more -- Qualifications. (1) For taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2027, but before January 1, 2031, a taxpayer completing a certified rehabilitation of a certified historic structure containing a minimum of twenty-five (25) stories s…

(1) A state agency or institution which obtains an oral history interview for historical purposes may enter into a reasonable and mutually acceptable written agreement of confidentiality with the interviewee with regard thereto. (2) An oral history interview which has been obtain…

As used in KRS 171.420 to 171.740: (1) "Public record or record" means all books, papers, maps, photographs, cards, tapes, disks, diskettes, recordings, and other documentary materials, regardless of physical form or characteristics, which are prepared, owned, used, in the posses…

(1) The State Libraries, Archives, and Records Commission is hereby created and shall be a seventeen (17) member body constituted as follows: (a) The state librarian or his or her designee, who shall be the chairperson of the commission; (b) The secretary of the Education and Lab…

Members of the commission shall serve without compensation other than actual expense of attending meetings of the commission or while in the performance of their official duties in connection with the business of the commission.

The commission shall meet in the City of Frankfort, but the commission may, by majority vote, hold special or regular meetings in other locations when the work of the commission would be facilitated thereby. The commission shall hold not less than four (4) meetings during each ca…

(1) The department shall establish: (a) Procedures for the compilation and submission to the department of lists and schedules of public records proposed for disposal; (b) Procedures for the disposal or destruction of public records authorized for disposal or destruction, includi…

In order for proper planning to be accomplished, the department shall cause a records management survey to be conducted in accordance with the regulations issued by the department.

The department is authorized to make continuing surveys of government records and records management and disposal practices and to obtain reports thereon from state and local agencies; to promote, in cooperation with the various state and local agencies, improved records manageme…

The secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet, at the request of the commission, shall have authority to design, build, purchase, lease, maintain, operate, protect, and improve buildings or facilities, including a state archives and records center building, used for the…

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…

The commission may from time to time appoint advisory groups to more effectively obtain the best professional thinking of the bar, historians, political scientists, accountants, genealogists, patriotic groups, and associations of public officials on the steps to be taken with reg…

management system for state government -- Rules and regulations. (1) The department shall, with due regard to the program activities of the state and local agencies concerned, prescribe the policies and principles to be followed by state and local agencies in the conduct of their…

certain records for Governor-elect. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, the commission shall establish standards for the selective retention of records of continuing value, and the department shall assist state and local agencies in applying such standards t…

The department is authorized to inspect or survey the records of any state or local agency, as well as to make surveys of records management and records disposal practices in such agencies, and shall be given full cooperation of officials and employees of agencies in such inspect…

The department is authorized to establish an interim records center or centers for the storage, processing, and servicing of records of state and local agencies pending their deposit in the State Archives and Records Center or their disposition in any other manner authorized by l…

Subject to applicable provisions of law, the department shall promulgate rules and regulations governing the transfer of records from the custody of one (1) state or local agency to that of another.

The department may empower any state or local agency, upon the submission of evidence of the need therefor, to retain records for a longer period than that specified in any approved disposal schedule, or by law but the agency shall report all such actions to the commission at its…

The department, whenever it appears to be in the public interest, is authorized: (1) To accept for deposit in the State Archives and Records Center the records of any state or local agency or of the General Assembly that are determined by the department to have sufficient histori…

The department shall be responsible for the custody, use, and withdrawal of records transferred to it. All papers, books, and other records of any matters so transferred are public records and shall be open to inspection by any interested person subject to reasonable rules as to …

The department shall make provisions for the preservation, management, repair and rehabilitation, duplication and reproduction, description, and exhibition of records or related documentary material transferred to it as may be needful or appropriate, including the preparation and…

The department shall make such provision and maintain such facilities as it deems necessary or desirable for servicing records in its custody that are not exempt from examination by statutory provisions or other restrictions.

The department is authorized, whenever it is deemed to be in the public interest, to accept for deposit: (1) The papers and other historical materials of any Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, or of any other official or former official of the state or its subdivisions, an…

The department may charge a fee not in excess of ten percent (10%) above the costs or expenses for making or authenticating copies or reproductions of materials transferred to its custody. All such fees shall be paid into a revolving fund for the continuation of such services on …

The head of each state or local agency shall cause to be made and preserved records containing adequate and proper documentation of the organizational functions, policies, decisions, procedures, and essential transactions of the agency and designed to furnish information necessar…

When the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or any state agency or subdivision or the principal officer thereof shall reproduce and preserve for record any records or papers by photographic, microphotographic, nonerasable optical image, or other process which accurately reproduces th…

When there is a question whether a particular record or group of records should be destroyed, the commission shall have exclusive authority to decide whether or not the record or group of records are to be destroyed.

(1) The head of each state and local agency shall establish and maintain an active, continuing program for the economical and efficient management of the records of the agency. (2) Such program shall provide for: (a) Effective controls over the creation, maintenance, and use of r…

Whenever the head of a state or local agency determines that substantial economies or increased operating efficiency can be effected thereby, he shall provide for the storage, processing and servicing of records that are appropriate therefor in the records center maintained and o…

Any official who is authorized to certify to facts on the basis of records in his custody is authorized to certify to facts on the basis of records that have been transferred by him or his predecessors to the department, further provided, that any fee due any official of the stat…

The head of each state and local agency shall establish such safeguards against removal or loss of records as he shall deem necessary and as may be required by rules and regulations issued under authority of KRS 171.410 to 171.740. Such safeguards shall include making it known to…

The head of each state and local agency shall notify the department of any actual, impending or threatened unlawful removal, defacing, alteration or destruction of records in the custody of the agency that shall come to his attention, and with the assistance of the department sha…

Nothing in KRS 171.410 to 171.740 shall be construed as limiting the authority of the State Auditor, or other officers charged with prescribing accounting systems, forms, or procedures or of lessening the responsibility of collecting and disbursing officers for rendering of their…

The Legislative Research Commission shall, unless otherwise directed by the Senate or House of Representatives obtain at the close of each session of the General Assembly all of the noncurrent records of the General Assembly and of each committee thereof and transfer them to the …

As used in KRS 171.780 to 171.788, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Commission" means the Kentucky Military Heritage Commission. (2) "Military heritage" means any peacetime, wartime, or other military activity engaged in by any or all of the thirteen (13) original colo…

designation of sites and objects -- Administrative regulations -- Funding -- Employees. (1) The Kentucky Military Heritage Commission is hereby established as an independent agency of the Commonwealth of Kentucky which is attached to the Kentucky Heritage Council for administrati…

Rescission. (1) Any person or organization may nominate a geographic location for designation as a military heritage site or to rescind a designation as a military heritage site. (2) Any person or organization may nominate an object for designation as a military heritage object o…