Title V, Military Affairs

(1) As used in this section: (a) "Declaration" means the Presidential Declaration of a Major Disaster, designated FEMA-4860-DR-KY; (b) "Kentucky disaster" means the severe storms, straight-line winds, flooding, and landslides that occurred in Kentucky beginning on February 14, 20…

(1) As used in this section: (a) "FEMA" means the Federal Emergency Management Agency; (b) "Qualified homeowner" means a resident of this state who has constructed a residential safe room with the intent to open it to others within their community in the event of a weather-relate…

As used in KRS 39A.350 to 39A.366: (1) "Disaster relief organization" means an entity that provides emergency or disaster relief services that include health services provided by volunteer health practitioners and that: (a) Is designated or recognized as a provider of those servi…

KRS 39A.350 to 39A.366 shall apply to volunteer health practitioners registered with a registration system that complies with KRS 39A.350 to 39A.366 and who provide health services in this state for a host entity while an emergency declaration is in effect.

emergency. (1) While an emergency declaration is in effect, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services in coordination with the Kentucky Division of Emergency Management and the appropriate Kentucky licensure boards may regulate: (a) The duration and scope of practice by voluntee…

health practitioners -- Relationship between Cabinet for Health and Family Services and other organizations -- Funding. (1) The Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall operate the emergency system for advanced registration of volunteer health practitioners. The system shall:…

licensed Kentucky practitioners. A volunteer health practitioner shall adhere to the scope of practice for a similarly licensed practitioner established by the licensing provisions, practice acts, or other laws of this state.

to volunteer practitioners under other laws -- KRS 39A.350 to 39A.366 not to affect requirements of the Emergency Management Assistance Compact. (1) KRS 39A.350 to 39A.366 shall not limit rights, privileges, or immunities provided to volunteer health practitioners by laws other t…

39A.366 -- Consultation among Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Kentucky Division of Emergency Management, and similarly empowered agencies in other states. The Cabinet for Health and Family Services may promulgate administrative regulations to implement KRS 39A.350 to 39A.…

promote uniformity of laws among enacting states. In applying and construing this uniform act, consideration shall be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact it.

KRS 39A.350 to 39A.366 shall be known as the Good Samaritan Act of 2007.

Emergency Management Assistance Compact ARTICLE I. Purpose and Authorities. This compact is made and entered into by and between the participating member states which enact this compact, hereinafter called party states. For the purposes of this compact, the term "states" is taken…

Any person violating any provision of this chapter or any administrative regulation promulgated or order issued pursuant to this chapter for which another penalty is not specified shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

Any person violating any provision of this chapter or any administrative regulation or order promulgated pursuant to this chapter for which another penalty is not specified shall be fined an amount not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100) for a first offense and not to exceed two…

Any person violating any provision of this chapter or any administrative regulation or order promulgated pursuant to this chapter for which another penalty is not specified shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

Any person violating any provision of this chapter or any administrative regulation promulgated or order issued pursuant to this chapter for which another penalty is not specified shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

(1) Any person violating any provision of this chapter or any administrative regulation promulgated or order issued pursuant to this chapter for which another penalty is not specified shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor. (2) (a) When a person violates KRS 39E.120, 39E.130, 3…

Any person violating any provision of this chapter or any administrative regulation promulgated or order issued pursuant to this chapter for which another penalty is not specified shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

The General Assembly shall by law provide for the issuance and sale of bonds of the Commonwealth, notwithstanding the limitation of indebtedness in Section 49 or any other section of the Constitution of Kentucky, which shall be in addition to all other bonds of the Commonwealth h…

As used in this chapter: (1) "Administrator" means the adjutant general of the Commonwealth; (2) "Veteran" means a person who served in the active Armed Forces of the United States, during the Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, or the Korean conflict, for a period o…

This chapter is intended to implement KRS 40.005, ratified by the electorate at the regular elections on November 3, 1959, by providing for payment of a cash bonus to qualified veterans, or to certain persons deriving from them, as quickly and as free from administrative delay an…

A bonus shall be paid from the proceeds of bonds of the Commonwealth, issued as hereinafter provided, in the amounts and to the persons determined in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.

No compensation shall be paid for time in service, of: (1) Any civilian officer or employee of any branch of the Armed Forces, contract surgeon, cadet of the United States Military Academy, midshipman of the United States Naval Academy or of the Coast Guard, member of the Reserve…

(1) Every person determined by the administrator to be a qualified veteran shall be paid the sum of nine dollars ($9) for each month and major fraction of a month of active duty, in the Armed Forces in the continental United States, not to exceed in all the sum of three hundred d…

All applications for the veterans' bonus shall be submitted to the administrator, in writing, upon forms prepared and made available by the administrator; and shall be accompanied by such documentary evidence as the administrator may by regulation prescribe. Every application sha…

(1) No application may be filed with or sent to the administrator after June 30, 1962; but if an application be sent by mail, the administrator shall receive it if the postmark on the envelope shows date and time of mailing at or before midnight, central standard time, on or befo…

(1) All facts material to determining whether the claimant is entitled to receive a veterans' bonus shall be evidenced: (a) In any case where the same are shown in the official records of the Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs, or any other department, bureau, …

The burden of proving to the satisfaction of the administrator that a veterans' bonus is entitled to be paid shall in all cases be upon the claimant.

The administrator shall make prompt determination that each application is approved or disapproved for payment of a veterans' bonus and if approved shall determine the amount to be paid according to the provisions of this chapter.

(1) If a claim is disapproved, the administrator shall send a notice of such decision to the claimant by mail at the address shown in the application. The notice shall be in such form as the administrator may determine, shall contain a designation of the reason for disapproval, s…

If the administrator shall disapprove any claim, or if the decision of the board of review be affirmance of the administrator's disapproval of the claim, (1) No payment of a veterans' bonus shall be made; (2) The administrator, upon receiving advice of the decision, shall note th…

(1) (a) If a claim is approved by the administrator or finally approved upon resort to the board of review, in whole or in part the administrator shall promptly certify to the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet the names and addresses of persons found entitled to…

-- Compensation -- Dissolution. (1) There shall be a board of review consisting of nine (9) persons who are residents and qualified voters of the Commonwealth, appointed by the Governor without limitation as to political affiliation, religion, race, sex, or past or present servic…

of creditors and process of courts until received. (1) Claims for payment of veterans' bonus shall not be assignable before or after approval thereof; and any attempted or purported assignment received by or tendered to any officer of the Commonwealth shall be void, need not be a…

Any person convicted of any offense denounced in KRS 40.990 shall forfeit his or her right, if any, to receive any payment authorized by this chapter.

The administrator and the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet shall, from time to time, prepare estimates of the sums anticipated to be required for payment of the veterans' bonus and the times when the same shall be required to be available. Advice of such estima…

For the purpose of providing funds for payment of the veterans' bonus authorized by this chapter, the State Property and Buildings Commission shall from time to time as funds are anticipated to be required, provide by resolution for the issuance and sale of general obligation bon…

All bonds issued hereunder shall be dated July 1, 1960, and shall mature on or prior to thirty (30) years from such date as the State Property and Buildings Commission may provide in each resolution authorizing the issuance and sale of such bonds. The State Property and Buildings…

bonds. The bonds and receipt of interest thereon shall be exempt from all taxation by the Commonwealth and its political subdivisions. The bonds shall be signed in the name of the Commonwealth by the facsimile signatures of the Governor and Treasurer of the Commonwealth, and the …

(1) The proceeds of all bonds issued and delivered under this chapter shall be deposited from time to time in the State Treasury and shall be segregated in a special fund, hereby created, which shall be designated the "Veterans' Bonus Fund." Moneys in said fund from time to time …

This chapter shall be given a liberal construction in the interpretation thereof. The administrator shall have power to make rules and regulations for implementing this chapter; and when promulgated according to KRS Chapter 13A, the same shall have the force and effect of law.

Organization. (1) There is created the Department of Veterans' Affairs, which shall be attached to the Office of the Governor for administrative purposes. Notwithstanding KRS 12.028, the department's status as a separate organizational unit attached to the Office of the Governor …

Meetings -- Duties of board and commissioner of Department of Veterans' Affairs. (1) There is created a board to be known as the Governor's Advisory Board for Veterans' Affairs, which shall be attached to the Department of Veterans' Affairs. (2) The board shall be composed of the…

(1) The Department of Veterans' Affairs shall collect all necessary data and information regarding facilities and services available to veterans, their families, and dependents, and shall cooperate with all information or service agencies throughout the state in informing such pe…

Prevention Program -- Mission and purpose -- Annual report -- Administrative regulations. (1) The Kentucky Service Members, Veterans, and their Families Suicide Prevention Program is hereby created within the Kentucky Department of Veterans' Affairs and shall be attached to the o…

(1) The Department of Veterans' Affairs shall establish and maintain state veterans' cemeteries in the Commonwealth for the purpose of providing for the interment of veterans of the Armed Forces of the United States and for their eligible next of kin, as determined by the departm…