Title XIII, Education

The legislative body of any city having a municipal college pursuant to KRS 165.160 may appropriate as a site for the buildings and grounds for that municipal college any public grounds of the city not especially appropriated or dedicated to any other use.

The board of trustees of a municipal college established pursuant to KRS 165.160 may acquire, by purchase or gift, lands and improvements for the purpose of expanding the plant and extending the usefulness of the college, and when unable to agree with the owner of land and improv…

An annual report and audit of receipts and disbursements of funds received by a municipal college under KRS 165.160 to 165.190 shall be made in addition to such other reports on the condition of the college as are required by its charter or by the governing body of the city.

of. (1) Boards of education of designated cities may establish or acquire by lawful conveyance municipal junior colleges for the purpose of promoting public education. A college in a designated city shall not constitute a municipal junior college or receive support as provided in…

The board of education of any city having a municipal junior college pursuant to KRS 165.210 may request and the legislative body of the city shall then, after an election as required by Section 184 of the Constitution, annually cause to be levied and collected, for the support o…

The board of education of any city that establishes or acquires a municipal junior college pursuant to KRS 165.210 may, for the purpose of supplementing the tax provided in KRS 165.220, charge each pupil attending the college an annual tuition fee of not more than two hundred dol…

The board of education of any city that has established or acquired a municipal junior college pursuant to KRS 165.210 may set apart or appropriate any site or school building, or part of a school building and grounds, not needed for general school purposes, for the use of a muni…

An annual report and an audit of receipts and disbursements of the junior college fund shall be made by the board of education of the city.

KRS 165.210 to 165.250 do not affect cities that had established and were operating, on January 27, 1937, municipal junior colleges other than by boards of education.

As used in this chapter: (1) "Agent" means any person employed by a proprietary school to act as agent, solicitor, broker, or independent contractor to procure students for the school by solicitation of enrollment in any form made at any place other than the main office or princi…

KRS 165A.310 to 165A.410 shall not apply to any institution offering a four (4) year bachelor's degree recognized by the Council on Postsecondary Education, nor shall it apply to any religious institution exempt from taxation under the laws of this state or which is subject to th…

(1) No person shall conduct, operate, maintain, or establish a proprietary school as herein defined or use any words which designate or tend to designate to the public that the operator of the school is qualified to conduct, operate, and maintain the school, unless he holds a val…

Terms -- Duties of executive director -- Administrative regulations -- Meetings -- Powers and duties of commission -- Compensation -- Complaint committee -- Annual report. (1) The Kentucky Commission on Proprietary Education is hereby created as an independent agency of the Commo…

Conditional license -- Renewal -- Owner's liability for actions of agents. (1) No person shall solicit or perform the services of an agent in this state for a proprietary school, located either within or without this state, unless the school shall have been issued by the commissi…

Transferability -- Voidable student contracts. (1) (a) No person shall maintain or operate a proprietary school located and doing business within this state until the school has been issued a license by the commission pursuant to the provisions of KRS 165A.310 to 165A.410. (b) No…

administrators and instructors -- Records -- Financial statement -- Approval and denial of license -- Conditional license. (1) No proprietary school located or doing business in this state shall be issued a license under these provisions until the commission has determined that t…

(1) All fees collected pursuant to this chapter, except those collected pursuant to KRS 165A.450, shall be deposited in the State Treasury in a trust and agency account of the Kentucky Commission on Proprietary Education and shall be used by the commission to defray the cost of a…

student records to commission prior to discontinuance. (1) An agent's permit may be revoked by the commission for fraud or misrepresentation in procuring or soliciting a student or prospective student for enrollment in a course or courses of instruction or study offered or mainta…

The commission shall have the authority to promulgate and adopt reasonable rules and regulations for the administration of this chapter.

The Attorney General may, at the request of the Kentucky Commission on Proprietary Education or on his own motion, bring in a Circuit Court appropriate action for the enforcement of the provisions of this chapter. Any such action under this section may, at the discretion of the A…

Minimum balance -- Fee structure. All licensed schools, resident and nonresident, shall be required to contribute to a student protection fund. The fund shall be used to pay off debts, including refunds to students enrolled or on leave of absence by not being enrolled for one (1)…

chapter -- Exceptions. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, all proprietary schools located or doing business in this state that offer CDL driver training shall be governed by the provisions of this chapter, except for matters governing: (a) The curriculum, w…

Eligibility based on results -- Fees. (1) All persons initially applying for a license to operate a CDL driver training school or a license as a CDL driver training instructor shall be required to undergo a state and national criminal history background check conducted by the Dep…

connected with school -- Requirements for school and instructors. (1) A person shall not operate, conduct, maintain, or establish a CDL driver training school unless the person holds a valid current license issued by the commission. The following persons shall not be allowed to b…

Department of Kentucky State Police -- Application to act as instructor -- Fees -- Determination of whether to issue license. (1) Any person seeking a license to operate, conduct, maintain, or establish a CDL driver training school shall apply to the commission on forms prepared …

licenses. (1) Upon receipt of a satisfactory application accompanied by the prescribed fee, the commission shall issue a license to the applicant. (2) If the license is issued to a CDL driver training school, it shall be posted and at all times displayed in a conspicuous place so…

(1) Every license issued for the operation of a CDL driver training school shall expire on June 30 following the date of the issuance unless revoked or canceled by the commission. (2) Before July 1 of each year, every CDL driver training school shall apply for renewal of its lice…

The commission shall, upon receipt of satisfactory evidence, suspend, revoke, refuse to issue, or refuse to renew the license of a CDL driver training school or a CDL driver training instructor if: (1) The licensee fails or refuses to comply with the provisions of this chapter or…

Appeal. Any person whose license to conduct a CDL driver training school or any person whose license to give instructions in these schools has been suspended or revoked or the issue or renewal thereof is refused, may request a hearing. The request shall be in writing addressed to…

Confidentiality. (1) Every CDL driver training school and CDL driver training instructor shall maintain records showing the name, address, and instruction permit or operator's license number of each person to whom instruction is given. The records shall also indicate the type of …

A CDL driver training school shall not be located within three hundred (300) feet of any governmental building in which is carried on any function having to do with the administration of any laws relating to motor vehicles.

The commission shall promulgate administrative regulations under KRS Chapter 13A governing the following: (1) Standards for CDL driver training school office facilities, branch office facilities, classroom facilities, and off-the-road testing facilities; (2) Conflict of interest …

(1) This chapter shall not apply to: (a) Any school or educational institution which offers to full-time, regularly enrolled students as a part of its curriculum a course in driving instruction for the purposes of obtaining a Kentucky Class D driver's license issued under KRS Cha…

(1) Any person, company, firm, corporation, association, society, or partnership, or any officer or employee thereof, who shall violate the provisions of KRS 165A.310 to 165A.410 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine not to exceed one …

Any person who violates KRS 165A.470, 165A.480, 165A.500, or 165A.505 shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than three hundred dollars ($300) or be imprisoned for not less than ten (10) days nor more than thirty (30) days, or both fined and imprisoned f…

Extramural services and programs. (1) The Kentucky School for the Blind at Louisville, Kentucky, and the Kentucky School for the Deaf at Danville, Kentucky, shall be managed and controlled by the Kentucky Board of Education. The board shall have possession and the responsibility …

(1) The superintendent of the Kentucky School for the Deaf shall be appointed by the chief state school officer. The appointment shall be made upon recommendation of a search committee which shall be appointed by the Kentucky Board of Education whenever appointment of a superinte…

(1) There may be established a Kentucky School for the Blind Advisory Board composed of five (5) members appointed by the Kentucky Board of Education upon recommendation by the chief state school officer for terms of four (4) years and until their successors are appointed. The bo…

(1) There shall be established a Kentucky School for the Deaf Advisory Board, composed of nine (9) members appointed by the Kentucky Board of Education upon recommendation of the chief state school officer. At the first regular meeting in each fiscal year, the board shall elect a…

Blind and Kentucky School for the Deaf. The Kentucky Board of Education upon recommendation of the chief state school officer may prescribe admission policies, curriculum, and rules for the government and discipline of pupils who attend the Kentucky School for the Blind or the Ke…

The Kentucky Board of Education shall alone have the power to expel a pupil from the Kentucky School for the Blind or the Kentucky School for the Deaf. The board may delegate that power to a three (3) member panel of the board.

As used in KRS 167.210 to 167.240, unless the context otherwise requires, "deaf-blind children" are those children who are deaf or hard of hearing and have visual impairments, the combination of which causes such severe communication, developmental, and educational problems that …

The State Department of Education is hereby authorized to expend available funds for the purpose of sending children who are deaf-blind to any facility, school, or institution, within or without the Commonwealth, which provides a qualified program of education for such children. …

The State Department of Education is hereby authorized to adopt and promulgate such rules and regulations as it deems necessary and proper for carrying out the purposes of KRS 167.210 to 167.240.

students. The chief state school officer may provide liability insurance or an indemnity bond against the negligence of drivers of motor vehicles owned or operated by the Department of Education for the transportation of members of the student bodies of the Kentucky School for th…

It is declared to be the legislative purpose of KRS 168.010 to 168.100, and the public policy of the Commonwealth, that there be established, developed, and utilized in the public interest a network of educational television production and related facilities and transmission and …

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky recognizes that technology plays an important role in enlarging and enriching the school experiences of students and is vital to an efficient system of public schools.

As used in KRS 168.010 to 168.100, the following words and terms have the following meanings, unless in any instance, the context shall clearly indicate another meaning, in which event the context shall be controlling: (1) "Authority" means the Kentucky Authority for Educational …

An independent agency and instrumentality of the Commonwealth is hereby created and established to be known as "The Kentucky Authority for Educational Television," the same being a public body corporate and politic, with perpetual succession, the power in its own name to contract…

(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 cha…