Title XVIII, Public Health

license. The secretary for health and family services may, by administrative regulation, require licensees of radioactive materials to provide an adequate surety or other financial arrangement, in such amount as the secretary deems reasonably appropriate to cover potential cleanu…

(1) The Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall provide by administrative regulation for the registration and licensing of the possession or use of any source of ionizing or electronic product radiation and the handling and disposal of radioactive waste. The cabinet may pres…

The Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall monitor radioactive waste material sites in Kentucky for the protection of the public health, safety, and welfare. The Finance and Administration Cabinet and the Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall cooperate and coordinate…

(1) The secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall fix a reasonable schedule of fees and charges, by regulation, to be paid by applicants for registration of radiation-producing machines and radioactive material licenses and for renewal of the certificates and …

Whenever, in the opinion of the Attorney General or the secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, the person is violating or is about to violate any of the provisions of KRS 211.842 to 211.852, or any regulation lawfully promulgated pursuant thereto, the Attorney G…

Exception. (1) The location of a nuclear waste disposal facility in the Commonwealth of Kentucky shall require prior approval by a majority of the members of the Kentucky House of Representatives, a majority of the members of the Kentucky Senate, and the approval of the Governor …

United States attorney. (1) The Cabinet for Health and Family Services may monitor the radiation in discharges into rivers along the Kentucky border from all nuclear power plants located on either side of such rivers for the protection of the health, safety, and welfare of the ci…

The Central Midwest Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact is approved in the form as follows: ARTICLE I POLICY AND PURPOSE There is created the Central Midwest Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact. The states party to this compact recognize that the Congress of…

(1) The General Assembly finds: (a) That the Central Midwest Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact was enacted by the State of Illinois and the Commonwealth of Kentucky to provide the instrument and framework for a cooperative effort, and to provide sufficient facilities…

As used in KRS 211.861 to 211.869, unless the compact requires otherwise: (1) "Commission" means the Central Midwest Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Commission; (2) "Cabinet" means the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; (3) "Compact" means the Central Midwest Intersta…

Kentucky -- Prohibitions -- Exemption -- Regulation of TENORM. (1) Unless otherwise authorized by the commission: (a) After July 15, 1998, no person shall deposit at a facility in Kentucky any low-level radioactive waste not generated within the region; (b) After July 15, 1998, n…

(1) The cabinet shall promulgate administrative regulations to administer and enforce the provisions of KRS 211.861 to 211.869. The administrative regulations shall be promulgated with the consultation and cooperation of the commission. (2) Administrative regulations promulgated …

The cabinet may accept donations of money, equipment, supplies, materials, and services from any person for accomplishing the purposes of KRS 211.861 to 211.869. Any donation of money shall be deposited into the State Treasury and credited to a trust and agency fund to be used by…

(1) Any person who fails to comply with any provision of KRS 211.859 or 211.863, or with any administrative regulations promulgated pursuant to KRS 211.859 or 211.865, or fails to comply with any order of the cabinet issued pursuant to KRS 211.859 or KRS 211.863 and 211.865 shall…

It is the finding of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky that the original concept of shallow-land nuclear burial sites has not been met in Kentucky in that measurable amounts of radioactivity have been released to the surrounding environment from an existing nuc…

material (NORM) -- Required revision of administrative regulations to ensure proper management of oil- and gas-related wastes containing NORM -- Report to LRC. (1) The General Assembly finds that: (a) "Naturally occurring radioactive material" or "NORM" is a term defined in KRS 2…

disposal site -- Commonwealth policy as to sites or facilities -- Contracts or agreements with federal government. (1) The Governor, the secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, the secretary of the Energy and Environment Cabinet or any other state agency shall no…

(1) Any nuclear waste disposal facility, licensed and regulated by the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, which is closed either because there is doubt as to the public safety of the site, the integrity of the site, the economic feasibility of financing perpetual ca…

The Energy and Environment Cabinet shall proceed toward the stabilization and decommissioning of any nuclear waste facility owned by the Commonwealth on July 15, 1980, as expeditiously as is reasonably possible in order to place the facility in such a condition that active ongoin…

As used in KRS 211.900 to 211.905 and KRS 211.994, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Cabinet" shall mean the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; (2) "Secretary" shall mean the secretary for health and family services or his authorized representative; (3) "Lead-based…

lead poisoning -- Duties of secretary -- Authorization of local regulations and programs. (1) The secretary shall establish a statewide program for the prevention, screening, diagnosis, and treatment of lead poisoning, including identification of the sources of such poisoning thr…

reports to be indexed and analyzed -- Information to local organizations. (1) Every physician, nurse, hospital administrator, director of a clinical laboratory, or public health officer who receives information of the existence of any person found or suspected to have a two and t…

(1) Testing for lead poisoning shall be an eligible benefit for recipients of the Commonwealth's Medical Assistance Program. In addition, testing for lead poisoning shall be made available as part of the regular immunization program offered by the cabinet and shall be provided wi…

The secretary shall establish an educational program to inform parents, teachers, personnel of human resource agencies, owners of dwellings and dwelling units, health service personnel and the general public, of the dangers, frequency, and sources of lead poisoning and the method…

elevated lead blood level -- Procedure -- Duties of cabinet -- Effect. (1) When notified that an occupant of a dwelling or dwelling unit is a child seventy-two (72) months of age or younger found to have a confirmed elevated blood level, an authorized representative of the cabine…

For the purposes of KRS 211.9061 to 211.9079 and KRS 211.990: (1) "Child-occupied facility" means a building, or portion of a building constructed prior to 1978 other than target housing in which a child, six (6) years of age or under, spends at least three (3) hours a day, two (…

services -- Administrative regulations -- Decision on application -- Quality assurance inspector. (1) Beginning July 1, 1997, all persons who perform or offer to perform lead-hazard detection or lead-hazard abatement services in target housing or child-occupied facilities shall b…

in lead-hazard detection or abatement services -- Administrative regulations. (1) Beginning January 1, 1997, all training programs providing or offering to provide an educational program designed to prepare persons for certification in lead-hazard detection or lead-hazard abateme…

The department shall promulgate administrative regulations pursuant to KRS Chapter 13A to establish a schedule of fees for permits required pursuant to KRS 211.9063, and for the functions performed by the department for the certification and accreditation programs established pur…

issuance. (1) Any person who has been issued a certificate in another state which has certification, educational, and experience requirements substantially equal to or greater than those of this state, pursuant to KRS 211.9063, and which grants equal certification privileges to p…

All persons certified pursuant to KRS 211.9063 or 211.9069, all training programs accredited pursuant to KRS 211.9065 or 211.9069, and the department shall comply with the applicable rules and regulations of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Unite…

-- Compliance with administrative regulations. (1) No later than October 1, 1996, the department shall promulgate administrative regulations to establish the standards for performing lead-hazard detection or lead- hazard abatement procedures in target housing or child-occupied fa…

The department may, within budget limitations, conduct a public education and awareness campaign on the nature and consequences of lead hazards and on the need for lead-hazard detection and abatement procedures to be conducted under careful supervision and by certified personnel …

As used in KRS 211.925 to 211.945, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Cabinet" shall mean the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. (2) "State confinement facility" shall mean a penal or correctional facility or juvenile detention or treatment facility operated by or u…

In addition to all other powers and duties vested in it by law, the cabinet shall have the authority, power, and duty to: (1) Adopt, modify, and repeal regulations and standards relating to the public health or health aspects of the operation of state confinement facilities, and …

The cabinet shall cooperate with the Department of Corrections in the development of regulations concerning the public health or health aspects of jails as defined in KRS 441.005 and shall assist in the training of jail inspectors employed by the Department of Corrections.

No person responsible for the supervision or maintenance of a state confinement facility shall knowingly cause or permit such facility to be operated in violation of rules, regulations, or standards promulgated by the cabinet pursuant to KRS 211.920 to 211.945.

(1) If, upon the inspection of a state confinement facility, the cabinet finds that a condition exists which endangers the health of those confined or likely to be confined in the facility, or the public health of the citizens of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, the cabinet shall ad…

All laws of the Commonwealth that relate to the supervision and maintenance of state confinement facilities shall be administered in a manner consistent with the provisions of KRS 211.925 to 211.930 and the rules, regulations, and standards promulgated pursuant to it.

services provider -- Confidentiality of person placing infant with provider. (1) As used in this section, "newborn infant" means an infant who is medically determined to be less than thirty (30) days old. (2) Any emergency medical services provider accepting physical custody of a…

Conversion to disabled persons carrier or ground ambulance provider. (1) The category of nonemergency health transportation provider shall be abolished effective December 31, 1996. (2) A provider licensed as of March 31, 1996, as a nonemergency health transportation provider may …

As used in KRS 211.972 to 211.982, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) "Approved" means that which has been considered acceptable to the cabinet; (2) "Cabinet" means the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and includes its authorized agents; (3) "Grease" means fats or o…

No person shall engage in the business of servicing or maintaining sewage pretreatment units, grease traps, or holding tanks, or the transporting of sewage sludge from those facilities within the Commonwealth of Kentucky without being licensed and bonded as hereinafter provided.

Nothing in KRS 211.972 to 211.982 shall be construed to require a business license for: (1) A property owner to clean his own sewage pretreatment unit, grease trap, or holding tank. (2) A municipality servicing and maintaining a public sewage treatment facility. (3) A master plum…

(1) (a) All persons proposing to engage in business for the purposes of this chapter shall file an application for licensing on forms provided by the cabinet with information specifying that waste hauling is restricted to household sewage or sludge only; commercial or industrial …

(1) All trucks or other vehicles used to transport or carry wastes from sewage pretreatment units, grease traps, or holding tanks shall be licensed by the cabinet. The application for this vehicle license shall be made prior to March 1 of each year on forms provided by the cabine…