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Kentucky Statutes, Title XVIII

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Title XVIII, Public Health

24 chapters · 1,542 sections in this title.

All chapters in Title XVIII1,542 Ch 224, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION247 Ch 211, STATE HEALTH PROGRAMS181 Ch 217, FOODS, DRUGS, AND POISONS143 Ch 216, HEALTH FACILITIES AND SERVICES120 Ch 212, LOCAL HEALTH PROGRAMS114 Ch 218A, CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES108 Ch 220, SANITATION DISTRICTS93 Ch 216B, LICENSURE AND REGULATION OF HEALTH F…80 Ch 210, STATE AND REGIONAL MENTAL HEALTH PRO…79 Ch 214, DISEASES61 Ch 224A, KENTUCKY INFRASTRUCTURE AUTHORITY54 Ch 217B, FERTILIZER AND PESTICIDE USE AND APP…52 Ch 222, KENTUCKY ALCOHOL AND SUBSTANCE USE D…42 Ch 213, VITAL STATISTICS40

79 sections·Filtered byTitle XVIII✕Ch 210✕

KRS § 210.005 Definitions for chapter
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As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Cabinet" means the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; (2) "Chronic" means that clinically significant symptoms of mental illness have persisted in the individual for a continuous period of at least two (2) …
KRS § 210.010 Rules and regulations
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The secretary for health and family services shall have authority to prescribe rules and regulations for the administration of the cabinet and of the institutions under the control of the cabinet, including power to regulate the payment of money to patients in mental institutions…
KRS § 210.031 Advisory committee on need for services for deaf or hard-of-hearing persons
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persons. (1) The cabinet shall establish an advisory committee of sixteen (16) members to advise the Department for Behavioral Health, Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities of the need for particular services for persons who are deaf or hard-of- hearing. (a) At least eight …
KRS § 210.033 Rights of individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities -- Purpose
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Purpose. (1) As used in this section, "developmental disabilities" has the same meaning as in KRS 387.510. (2) The General Assembly finds that in addition to the rights provided under KRS Chapter 347 for developmentally disabled persons, the rights of individuals with intellectua…

KRS § 210.040 Powers and duties of cabinet

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The Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall: (1) Exercise all functions of the state in relation to the administration and operation of the state facilities for the care and treatment of persons with mental illness; (2) Establish or acquire, in accordance with the provisions…

KRS § 210.042 Funding for nonprofit agency -- Matching funds

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(1) The Cabinet for Health and Family Services may provide, to the extent funds are available under KRS 210.040 and under conditions and standards established by the cabinet, funds to any nonprofit agency recognized as operating in the field of mental health and whose objectives …

KRS § 210.045 Additional duties -- Requirements as to closure of certain state-owned or state-operated facilities for persons with an intellectual disability

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state-operated facilities for persons with an intellectual disability. (1) The Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall: (a) Maintain, operate, and assume program responsibility for all state institutions and facilities for intellectual disability; (b) Provide rehabilitation …

KRS § 210.047 Facility closure hearing -- Required considerations

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A court hearing as provided under KRS 210.045(6) shall consider each of the following items relevant to the closure of the facility: (1) Estimated timelines for the implementation of the closure of the facility; (2) The types and array of available and accessible community-based …

KRS § 210.049 Applicability of notice provisions to pre-existing closure announcements -- Delay of hearings

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Delay of hearings. For any facility that the cabinet has announced plans for closure prior to April 5, 2000, the cabinet shall be subject to the notice provisions of KRS 210.045 within ten (10) days of April 5, 2000. The cabinet shall delay proceedings toward closure until the pr…

KRS § 210.051 Kentucky Eating Disorder Council -- Membership -- Duties -- Grant applications -- Reports -- Sunset of council in 2030 unless reestablished

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applications -- Reports -- Sunset of council in 2030 unless reestablished. (1) The Kentucky Eating Disorder Council is hereby established in the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and shall be attached to the cabinet for administrative purposes. (2) The following members shal…

KRS § 210.052 Kentucky eating disorder fund

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(1) The Kentucky eating disorder fund is hereby created as a separate trust and agency fund. The fund shall be administered by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services for the purpose outlined in KRS 210.051. (2) The fund may receive amounts from state or federal appropriations…

KRS § 210.053 Kentucky Mental Health First Aid Training Program

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(1) The Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall establish and administer the Kentucky Mental Health First Aid Training Program or a similar program to train professionals and other members of the public to identify and assist individuals who may have or may be developing a m…

KRS § 210.054 Kentucky mental health first aid training fund

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(1) The Kentucky mental health first aid training fund is hereby created as a separate trust and agency fund. The fund shall be administered by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services for the purpose outlined in KRS 210.053. (2) The fund may receive amounts from state or feder…

KRS § 210.055 Additional powers of cabinet -- Administrative regulations -- Education and training

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and training. The Cabinet for Health and Family Services may: (1) Promulgate reasonable rules and regulations for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of KRS 210.045, including regulations establishing the minimum and maximum ages within which individuals with an intellect…

KRS § 210.057 Powers and duties as to research on controlled substances

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(1) The Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall conduct research into all aspects of controlled substances as defined in KRS 218A.010 in coordination with the Kentucky Board of Pharmacy. (2) The Cabinet for Health and Family Services may authorize persons engaged in research…

KRS § 210.080 Secretary may transfer employees

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The secretary for health and family services may transfer any employee between the institutions operated by the cabinet, or to the headquarters of the cabinet. Necessary moving expenses involved in such transfers shall be paid by the cabinet.

KRS § 210.090 Partisan political activity prohibited

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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 a…

KRS § 210.100 Exemption of institutional officers and employees from personal attendance as witness

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attendance as witness. No officer or employee of any institution operated by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall be required to give personal attendance as a witness in any civil suit out of the county in which the institution is located, but his deposition shall be …

KRS § 210.110 Officers, employees, and agents of Cabinet for Health and Family Services and regional community programs for behavioral health, developmental and intellectual disabilities not to sell to or make contracts with institutions, facilities, or organizations under cabinet's control if conflict of interest involved

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and regional community programs for behavioral health, developmental and intellectual disabilities not to sell to or make contracts with institutions, facilities, or organizations under cabinet's control if conflict of interest involved. (1) No officer, employee, or agent of the …

KRS § 210.120 Officers and employees not to accept outside compensation -- Exceptions

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No physician or doctor employed by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall receive or accept any compensation for personal services other than that paid by the state, except that the secretary, and other physicians and doctors when so authorized by the secretary, may be …

KRS § 210.130 Religious instruction and ministration

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Religious instruction and ministration for patients of the institutions operated by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall be provided.

KRS § 210.140 Transfer of patient or inmate to institution operated by different cabinet

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(1) Pursuant to agreement entered into by the heads of the cabinets concerned, a patient or inmate of a state institution operated by one (1) state cabinet may be transferred to a state institution operated by another state cabinet, except that: (a) An inmate may be transferred f…

KRS § 210.170 Authority to accept and use grants, gifts, bequests, and devises

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The Cabinet for Health and Family Services may accept money from the federal government, or any of its agencies, under any grant agreement entered into by this state or by the cabinet. Such money may be expended for capital outlay in accordance with the provisions of KRS 56.440 t…

KRS § 210.180 Canteens in institutions

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There shall be established and maintained, at each of the institutions operated by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, a canteen which shall be incorporated and self- supporting. The directors of each canteen shall be appointed by the secretary. All profits from each cant…

KRS § 210.190 Utilizing services of workers of other cabinets -- Expenses

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The secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services may utilize the services of the workers of the other cabinets, when authorized by the agency heads of these cabinets. The secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services may authorize payment of the actual travel…

KRS § 210.220 Correspondence by patients with secretary or attorneys

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No patient of any of the institutions operated by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall be denied the right to correspond with an attorney or with the secretary.

KRS § 210.230 Records and forms covering involuntary hospitalization procedures

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The secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services may prescribe appropriate records to be maintained covering the operations of the cabinet and of the institutions operated by it, and covering involuntary hospitalization procedures. Any record forms applicable to involu…

KRS § 210.235 Confidential nature of records -- Conditions under which records may be disclosed

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disclosed. All applications and requests for admission and release, and all certifications, records, and reports of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services which directly or indirectly identify a patient or former patient or a person whose hospitalization has been sought, shal…

KRS § 210.240 Training schools

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The secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services is authorized to establish training schools within the cabinet or within any of the institutions operated by the cabinet, for the training of necessary personnel for the institutions, or may arrange for the training of e…

KRS § 210.265 No fee to be charged for staff certificate or affidavit

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In no case where the certificate or affidavit of state hospital staffs is admitted as evidence in a proceeding to determine whether a person should be hospitalized shall any fee be charged, it being considered a part of the regular state service.

KRS § 210.267 Production by hospital residents

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The residents of state mental hospitals may manufacture and produce for their own use, or for sale, such articles, furniture, clothing, tools, products, and other supplies and engage in such labor or work of construction as may be approved by the Cabinet for Health and Family Ser…

KRS § 210.270 Custodial care of patients with an intellectual disability in private homes, private nursing homes, and private institutions -- Transfer or reclassification of patient -- Procedure

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private nursing homes, and private institutions -- Transfer or reclassification of patient -- Procedure. (1) The secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services is authorized to designate those private homes, private nursing homes, and private institutions that he or she …

KRS § 210.271 State hospital patients to be discharged to registered boarding homes only -- Quarterly follow-up visits by cabinet

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-- Quarterly follow-up visits by cabinet. (1) No patient in an institution for the mentally ill or the intellectually disabled operated by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall be discharged to a boarding home as defined in KRS 216B.300 unless the boarding home is regi…

KRS § 210.285 Powers of cabinet -- Forms -- Reports -- Rules and regulations

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In addition to the specific authority granted by other provisions of KRS Chapters 202A, 202B, and 210, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall have authority to prescribe the form of applications, records, reports, and medical certificates provided for under KRS Chapters…

KRS § 210.290 Cabinet may act as fiduciary for certain disabled or partially disabled adult residents -- Duties -- Guardianship trust fund -- Annual report -- Powers

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adult residents -- Duties -- Guardianship trust fund -- Annual report -- Powers. (1) The Cabinet for Health and Family Services may be appointed and act as executor, administrator, guardian, limited guardian, conservator, or limited conservator as provided in this section. In thi…

KRS § 210.300 Designation of hospital districts -- Guidelines -- Administrative regulations -- Annual review

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-- Annual review. (1) The secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall promulgate administrative regulations no later than October 1, 2022, in accordance with KRS Chapter 13A establishing hospital districts, for the purpose of determining to which of the state in…

KRS § 210.330 Employment of attorney -- Cost of litigation -- Limitation of action

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(1) The cabinet may employ counsel, upon the advice and approval of the Attorney General, to institute or defend such actions or proceedings as it deems necessary or proper to enforce the payment or reimbursement for board and maintenance of patients. In case of failure of suits,…

KRS § 210.340 Extradition of nonresident patient

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Any nonresident who has been committed to a mental institution in another state and who escapes therefrom and is found in this state may be apprehended upon notice from the other state and returned thereto by personnel of the cabinet at the cabinet's expense.

KRS § 210.350 Return of nonresidents -- Expense

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If an order is issued by a judge committing to a state institution a person who has not acquired a legal residence in this state, the cabinet shall return such person, either before or after his admission to the institution, to the country or state to which he belongs and for suc…

KRS § 210.365 Crisis intervention team (CIT) training for firefighters and law enforcement officers -- Curriculum -- Individual and aggregate reports -- Telephonic behavioral health jail triage system

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enforcement officers -- Curriculum -- Individual and aggregate reports -- Telephonic behavioral health jail triage system. (1) As used in this section: (a) "Commission" means the Kentucky Fire Commission; (b) "Crisis intervention team (CIT) training" means a forty (40) hour train…

KRS § 210.366 Training program in suicide assessment, treatment, and management -- Administrative regulations

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Administrative regulations. (1) As used in this section: (a) "Board" means the Kentucky Board of Social Work, Kentucky Board of Licensure of Marriage and Family Therapists, Kentucky Board of Licensed Professional Counselors, Kentucky Board of Licensure for Pastoral Counselors, Ke…

KRS § 210.368 Definitions for section -- Mobile crisis services fund -- Terms -- Administrative regulations

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Administrative regulations. (1) As used in this section: (a) "Cabinet" means the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; (b) "CMHC" means a community mental health center; (c) "Fund" means the mobile crisis services fund; and (d) "Mobile unit" means any vehicle which a CMHC uses …

KRS § 210.370 Service areas for regional community services programs -- Cities or counties may join in providing programs for mental health or individuals with an intellectual disability -- Operating as behavioral health services organization when outside regional service area -- Expansion of out-of-region services -- Assistance from other service areas -- Collaborative request -- Reimbursement for services outside area

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counties may join in providing programs for mental health or individuals with an intellectual disability -- Operating as behavioral health services organization when outside regional service area -- Expansion of out-of-region services -- Assistance from other service areas -- Col…

KRS § 210.380 Community board programs for mental health or individuals with an intellectual disability -- Establishment -- Membership

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intellectual disability -- Establishment -- Membership. Every combination of cities and counties establishing a regional community services program for mental health or individuals with an intellectual disability shall, before it comes within the provisions of KRS 210.370 to 210.…

KRS § 210.390 Terms of members of board -- Vacancies -- Removal

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The term of office of each member of the community board for mental health or individuals with an intellectual disability shall be for four (4) years measured from the first day of the year of appointment except that of the members first appointed, three (3) shall be appointed fo…

KRS § 210.400 Duties of board

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Subject to the provisions of this section and the policies and regulations of the secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, each community board for mental health or individuals with an intellectual disability shall: (1) Review and evaluate services for mental heal…

KRS § 210.405 Board may act as fiduciary -- Duties -- Powers

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(1) Any regional community board for mental health or individuals with an intellectual disability established pursuant to KRS 210.380 and recognized by the secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services may be appointed and act as executor, administrator, guardian, limit…

KRS § 210.410 State aid for regional mental health and intellectual disability programs

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(1) The secretary of the cabinet is hereby authorized to make state grants and other fund allocations from the cabinet to assist any regional service area established in KRS 210.370, any combination of cities and counties, or nonprofit corporations in the establishment and operat…

KRS § 210.420 Limits on state general fund grants -- Purpose for which made -- Distribution formula

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Distribution formula. (1) Except as hereinafter provided, grants from state general funds for any program shall not exceed fifty percent (50%) of the total expenditures for: (a) Salaries; (b) Contract facilities and services; (c) Operation, maintenance, and service costs; (d) Per…

KRS § 210.430 Plan, budget, and membership of board to be submitted to obtain aid

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Any community board for mental health or individuals with an intellectual disability or nonprofit corporation administering a services program for mental health or individuals with an intellectual disability may apply for the assistance provided by KRS 210.370 to 210.460 by submi…