Title VIII, Offices and Officers

Penalties. (1) "Peace officer," as used in this section, means any sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable or deputy constable granted peace officer powers, patrol or any other peace officer or deputy peace officer except those appointed pursuant to KRS 61.360 or 277.270 and those emp…

officers, jailers, school resource officers, members of a state National Guard or Reserve component, and emergency medical services personnel -- Administrative regulations -- Estates to be exempted from probate fees -- Funds allotted to a self-insuring account -- Presumption that…

Catchline at repeal: Benefits to be paid on death of volunteer firefighter -- Volunteer firefighter defined -- Rules and regulations.

Each county road official shall, at the expiration of his term of office, pay over to his successor all the money in his hands by virtue of his office, and take duplicate receipts therefor, one (1) of which shall be filed with the county clerk. If he fails to do so, the county ma…

Upon retiring from office the chief state school officer shall deliver to his successor all books, papers, and effects belonging to the office, and on failure to do so he shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500), which shal…

Upon the resignation, removal from office or expiration of the term of office of a county or city clerk, he shall immediately, upon application, deliver to his successor, or such other person as the city or county legislative body orders, all books, records and other papers belon…

laws relating to. Any civil or judicial officer in this state who fails or refuses to enforce any statute bearing upon cemetery companies or burying grounds shall be fined twenty-five dollars ($25) for each failure or refusal.

Removal -- Duties -- Not to impersonate public police officer. The Governor or his agent may appoint special local peace officers, for such time as he deems necessary, to preserve the peace and protect the property of any person from waste or destruction; provided, however, that …

to enforce state and local traffic and motor vehicle laws. (1) Any public police department, sheriff's office, or the Department of Kentucky State Police may, upon written agreement with a residential property owner or a residential property owners' association, patrol the roadwa…

The following persons who are employed by the federal government as law enforcement or investigative officers who have the power of arrest and who are residents of the Commonwealth of Kentucky shall be deemed peace officers and shall have the same powers and duties of any other p…

Catchline at repeal: Reinstatement of War Veterans in public position or employment held before entering service.

As used in KRS 61.371 to 61.377, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Board" means the personnel board established by KRS Chapter 18A; (2) "Employer" means the officer, employee, board, commission, or agency authorized by law to make appointments to a position in public se…

leave of absence -- Appeals. (1) Any public employee who leaves a position after June 16, 1966, voluntarily or involuntarily, in order to perform military duty, and who is relieved or discharged from such duty under conditions other than dishonorable, and who has not been absent …

Any person who is restored to a position in accordance with KRS 61.371 to 61.377 shall not be discharged from his or her position without cause within one (1) year after his or her restoration, and shall, without limiting other rights conferred by this or other sections, be consi…

Any employee who holds a position in the public service shall be granted a leave of absence for the purpose of being inducted or otherwise entering military duty. If not accepted for such duty, the employee shall be reinstated in his position without loss of seniority or status, …

Catchline at repeal: Rules and regulations -- Appeals from failure to restore or discharge -- Procedure.

meetings or hearings -- Statement of expenses to be filed. (1) In any county containing a city of the first class, the members of the fiscal court and any of its employees, the county judge/executive and county attorney and his assistants, when duly authorized by a majority vote …

motor vehicles on official business. Whenever the fiscal court of any county containing a city of the first class is authorized by law to furnish a motor vehicle to any officer or employee of the county, the fiscal court may permit such officer or employee to use his own motor ve…

transportation of prisoners. (1) All conspicuously marked motor vehicles used by the Department of Kentucky State Police, sheriffs' departments, county police, urban-county police, and city police for transporting prisoners, which are conspicuously marked as law enforcement vehic…

(1) Any bonds heretofore or hereafter authorized to be issued by the state, any county, municipality, taxing or school district, including any corporation acting as an agency or instrumentality of such unit, whether created by statute, or organized under the provisions of the non…

time employees and full-time equivalents working under contract. (1) Within fifteen (15) days after April 5, 2010, and on a quarterly basis thereafter, the secretary of the Personnel Cabinet shall report to the Legislative Research Commission the number of employees in each progr…

(1) All officers and employees of this state, or of any department or agency thereof who are members of the National Guard or of any reserve component of the Armed Forces of the United States, or of the reserve corps of the United States Public Health Service, shall be entitled t…

title. (1) As used in this section: (a) "Disaster" means disasters designated at level III and above in the American National Red Cross Regulations and Procedures; and (b) "State agency" means all departments, offices, commissions, boards, institutions, and political and corporat…

All officers and employees of counties, municipalities, school districts or other political subdivisions of the state who are members of the National Guard or of any reserve component of the Armed Forces of the United States, including the United States Public Health Service, sha…

If any judge of the Court of Justice fails to perform the duties of his office, the Chief Justice shall notify the Judicial Retirement and Removal Commission of the judge's failure, unless in his opinion the disability is temporary. Whenever the Judicial Retirement and Removal Co…

health maintenance organization coverage. (1) For the purpose of this section, "excess fees" means fees and commissions in an amount greater than the total salaries and expenses that are required by law to be paid by an office. (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of KRS 64.530(3),…

prosecutorial system to executive branch. Any other statute to the contrary notwithstanding, the Executive Department of government shall accept from the unified prosecutorial system all accrued annual and sick leave balances and service credits of employees leaving the unified p…

relating to residency or voter registration -- Exceptions -- Application. (1) No state, city, county, urban-county, charter county, or consolidated local government law enforcement agency shall set a residence requirement, except requiring residence within the Commonwealth, for a…

(1) It is declared to be the policy of the General Assembly to extend the federal old-age, survivors, disability, and hospital insurance coverage to all public employees regardless of whether the employees are occupying positions which are covered by a retirement system; but no e…

For the purpose of KRS 61.410 to 61.500: (1) "Wages" means all remuneration for employment as defined in subsection (2) of this section, including the cash value of all remuneration paid in any medium other than cash, except that the term shall not include that part of the remune…

Consistent with the terms and conditions of KRS 61.410 to 61.500, the state agency, with the approval of the Governor, is hereby authorized to enter into an agreement with the commissioner for the purpose of extending insurance coverage to employees with respect to services speci…

colleges. (1) In order for any service performed by an employee in a position covered by a retirement system to be included in an agreement as permitted by KRS 61.430, a referendum pursuant to Section 218(d)(3) or 218(d)(7) of the Social Security Act shall be held on the question…

Any instrumentality jointly created by this state and any other state or states is hereby authorized, to the extent that this Commonwealth may confer authority, (1) to enter into an agreement with the commissioner whereby the benefits of the federal old-age, survivors, disability…

(1) Every employee of the state whose services are covered by an agreement entered into under KRS 61.430 shall be required to pay for the period of coverage, into the contribution fund established by KRS 61.470, contributions, with respect to wages received for each calendar year…

(1) Each political subdivision of the state is hereby authorized to submit for approval by the state agency a plan for extending insurance coverage to employees of the political subdivision; except that no plan shall provide insurance coverage to an employee occupying a position …

(1) There is hereby established a special fund to be known as the contribution fund. Such fund shall consist of and there shall be deposited therein: (a) All contributions, interest, and penalties under KRS 61.450 and 61.460; (b) All moneys appropriated or otherwise contributed t…

Authorization is hereby granted to all offices, departments, boards, commissions, institutions, and all other agencies of the state government of the Commonwealth of Kentucky to make payments to the contribution fund out of moneys, not required by law or contract to be expended f…

The state agency shall make and publish such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the provisions of KRS 61.410 to 61.500, as it finds necessary or appropriate to the efficient administration of the functions with which it is charged under KRS 61.410 to 61.500.

The provisions of KRS 61.410 to 61.500 shall be retrospective to January 1, 1951, and any agreement entered into pursuant to it may be made with retroactive effect to January 1, 1951, or any date thereafter.

compensation, and meetings -- Authority granted powers and privileges of corporation -- Executive director, chief auditor, and employees -- Expenses -- Authorization of administrative expenses -- Duties of members. (1) There is created an eight (8) member Kentucky Public Pensions…

As used in KRS 61.510 to 61.705, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "System" means the Kentucky Employees Retirement System created by KRS 61.510 to 61.705; (2) "Board" means the board of trustees of the system as provided in KRS 61.645; (3) "Department" means any state d…

There is hereby created and established: (1) A retirement system for employees to be known as the "Kentucky Employees Retirement System" by and in which name it shall, pursuant to the provisions of KRS 61.510 to 61.705, transact all its business and shall have the powers and priv…

Authority for order. (1) Each department determined by the board to be eligible and qualified for participation shall participate in the system when the Governor by appropriate executive order, the authority to issue such executive order being granted, directs such department to …

Catchline at repeal: Participation date of circuit clerks.

employer in retirement system -- Effects of on employees, employers, and system -- Statutes and administrative regulations that prevail regarding participation. Notwithstanding any other provision of KRS 61.510 to 61.705 or 78.510 to 78.852 to the contrary: (1) For purposes of th…

establishment of a governmental plan -- Effects of on employees and employers -- No legislative determination that employer ceasing to participate is a "governmental agency." The following shall apply if an employer ceases participation in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System…

Membership in the system shall consist of the following: (1) All persons who become employees of a participating department after the date such department first participates in the system; (2) All persons who are employees of a department on the date the department first particip…

office -- Procedures for verification. (1) Upon becoming a member of the Kentucky Employees Retirement System, the County Employees Retirement System, or the State Police Retirement System, the employee and employer may file in the retirement office, in the form and detail as the…

future survivors covered as of December 31, 1977, under retirement plans established by cities of second or third class -- Procedure for transfer of coverage to state system. (1) The system shall extend to and embrace police court judges and present and future survivors who are c…

Any person who is an employee on the date his department first participates in the system, either in service or on leave from service, who does not elect within the time set forth in KRS 61.525 to become a member and thereby make contributions required of him by KRS 61.510 to 61.…