Peace Officers and Law Enforcement Legislation - Kentucky

Amend KRS 15.315, relating to the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council, to add two constables to the council KRS 16.220 to include constables among the recipients of grants from firearm sales; amend KRS 61.315, relating to death benefits for peace officers, to include constables and deputy constables; amend KRS 61.362, relating to agreements with peace officers and residential property owners, to enforce law on residential property to include constables; amend KRS 64.200, relating to constable financial record management, to specify that the constable pays funds to the county treasurer for inclusion in a constable account to be used by the constable for expenses; amend KRS 65.255, relating to cooperative utilization of peace officers, to add a constable who is a certified peace officer or qualified constable; amend KRS 70.036, relating to sheriff uniforms, to include constable uniforms and require county to pay for uniform for certified peace officer constables and qualified constables and [...]

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Create a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to allow local law enforcement agencies to enter into agreements with the federal government to enforce immigration law; create a new section of KRS Chapter 16 to require the State Police to enter into an agreement with the federal government to enforce immigration law and to form a Kentucky State Police Illegal Alien Task Force; Create several new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to prohibit employers from employee illegal aliens, to create a graduated loss of business license or charter scheme for those found to have done so after January 1, 2009, and to require utilization of a federal work authorization verification system; amend KRS 514.160 to include with the offense of identity theft the theft of identity by an unauthorized alien for the purpose of obtaining employment; create a noncodified section to create a Employer Sanctions Task Force to study the system of employer sanction relative to the employment of unauthorized aliens to operate during [...]

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Create a new section of KRS Chapter 227 to require that a report be submitted to the local fire chief where consumer fireworks and display fireworks are stored; establish the contents of and the deadline for the report; establish that failure to submit report is grounds for discontinuing operations until the reporting requirement is properly submitted; amend KRS 227.700, 227.702, and 227.704 to change "common fireworks" to "consumer fireworks"; amend KRS 227.706 to change the name of "special fireworks" to "display fireworks"; amend KRS 227.710 to require that permits be issued to competent operators only; establish that a competent operator must complete and approved course of instruction in pyrotechnics; require a person who participates in the display setup or who remains in the display site to complete a pyrotechnics course; require the operator to submit proof of the person having completed an approved course of instruction; require that a copy of the proof be available for inspection [...]

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Amend KRS 65.8808 to permit ordinances for code enforcement boards to include a schedule of civil penalties that may be imposed on any person found to have committed a civil offense by the code enforcement board; list maximum civil penalties that may be imposed; specify that each section of an ordinance violated shall be considered a separate finable offense; specify that if two or more sections of an ordinance are violated, the civil penalties shall be cumulative and be enforced within the same citation; consider each day a violation exists a separate offense upon issuance of a separate citation; provide that upon the issuance of a fifth citation for the same civil offense each day that the violation continues shall be considered a separate offense without the need for additional citations; amend KRS 65.8825 to require that the code enforcement board citation shall include information detailing the maximum civil fine that may be imposed if the citation is being issued for either the first,[...]

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Amend KRS 224.01-410 to define "clandestine methamphetamine lab," "contaminated property," and "decontamination standards"; permit the Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet to establish a tiered response system for methamphetamine-contaminated properties and to promulgate administrative regulations for decontamination standards; require local or state law enforcement to conduct the initial sampling of an inhabitable property site and direct the Department of the State Police to promulgate administrative regulations; permit the property owner of a inhabitable property site to consult decontamination and remediation service providers not listed on the cabinet's certified contractor list, if the initial sampling result is not assessed as a Tier 3 or higher contamination; require that inhabitable property not be deemed habitable unless the decontamination standard is met; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to create the tiered response system for methamphetamine-contaminated [...]

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