Title XVI, Motor Vehicles

KRS 190.090 to 190.140 may be cited as "The Motor Vehicle Retail Installment Sales Act."

Any person who violates or causes, aids, or abets any violation of any provision of this chapter shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars ($25) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500), or imprisoned for not more than thirty (30) days, or both.

As used in KRS 190.270 to 190.320: (1) "Odometer" means an instrument for measuring and recording the actual distance a motor vehicle or motor home as defined in KRS 190A.010 travels while in operation; but shall not include any auxiliary odometer designed to be reset by the oper…

(1) It is unlawful for any person to advertise for sale, to sell, to use, or to install or to have installed, any device which causes an odometer to register any mileage other than the true mileage driven. For purposes of this section, the true mileage driven is that mileage the …

No person shall conspire with any other person to violate the provisions of KRS 190.260 to 190.320.

Nothing in KRS 190.260 to 190.320 shall prevent the service, repair, or replacement of an odometer, provided the mileage indicated thereon remains the same before the service, repair, or replacement. Where the odometer is incapable of registering the same mileage as before such s…

(1) Any transferor must give a written disclosure to the transferee in connection with the transfer of ownership of a motor vehicle or motor home: (a) Disclosing the cumulative mileage registered on the odometer. (b) Disclosure that the actual mileage is unknown, if the odometer …

(1) Any person who, with intent to defraud, violates any requirement imposed under KRS 190.270 to 190.320 shall be liable to the transferee in an amount equal to the sum of: (a) Three (3) times the amount of actual damages sustained or fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500), whichever …

Compliance with KRS 190.300 shall be effected by use of forms prescribed by 15 U.S.C. secs. 1981 et seq.

A person shall not operate or cause to be operated any automobile, vehicle, or machinery recycler, or material recycler establishment or place of business which is situated closer than one thousand (1,000) feet from the right-of-way line of any road unless a license for the opera…

An automobile, vehicle, or machinery recycler establishment or place of business, or material recycler establishment or place of business which complies as a conforming use in an industrially zoned area under the applicable zoning ordinances and regulations of any county or city,…

(1) The commission shall promulgate administrative regulations in accordance with KRS Chapter 13A to establish that the license required under KRS 190.350 shall be issued when it is shown to the satisfaction of the commission that an automobile, vehicle, or machinery recycler, or…

Where the commission has reasonable cause to doubt the financial responsibility of the operator or compliance by the operator with KRS 190.350 to 190.365, the commission may require the operator to furnish and maintain a bond in the form, amount, and with the sureties as it shall…

The commission is hereby empowered to: (1) Exercise general supervision of the administration and enforcement of KRS 190.350 to 190.365; (2) Promulgate administrative regulations in accordance with KRS Chapter 13A pertaining to the operation of automobile, vehicle, or machinery r…

(1) (a) Public hearings shall be conducted in accordance with KRS Chapter 13A by the commission prior to the promulgation of any administrative regulations which pertain to the prevention, abatement, or control of automobile, vehicle, or machinery recycler, or material recycler e…

Any aggrieved party may appeal the final order of the commission following the hearing to the Circuit Court of the county in which the alleged offense occurred in accordance with KRS Chapter 13B.

(1) Except as provided in subsection (5) of this section, any person who violates or causes, aids, or abets any violation of any provision of KRS 190.010 to 190.080 and KRS Chapter 190A, as such provisions apply, respectively, to new motor vehicle dealers, new recreational vehicl…

Any person who violates any of the provisions of KRS 186.695 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500) or be imprisoned for a term not to exceed six (6) months, or both.