GENERAL PROVISIONS AS TO OFFICES AND OFFICERS -- SOCIAL SECURITY FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEES -- EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM
KRS tit. VIII, ch. 61
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section61.010. Office not to be sold -- Penalty -- Contracts to sell are voidsection61.012. Qualification for appointive office or position as to compliance with campaign finance lawssection61.015. Residence requirements for office or employment when city or district boundaries alteredsection61.020. Commissions, which officers required to havesection61.030. Discharge of duties, when officer to enter uponsection61.035. Deputy may act for ministerial officersection61.040. Conviction of certain crimes vacates office -- Pardon does not avoidsection61.050. Officer's acts before conviction are validsection61.060. Official acts may be questioned collaterally, whensection61.070. Eligibility of General Assembly member or candidate as administrative board or commission membersection61.080. Incompatible officessection61.090. Acceptance of incompatible office vacates firstsection61.092. Renumbered as KRS 45A.330section61.094. Renumbered as KRS 45A.335section61.096. Renumbered as KRS 45A.340section61.097. Involvement of local government officers, employees, and their spouses in contracts for solid waste management facilities -- Effect on contract -- Penaltiessection61.098. Practice of law prohibitedsection61.100. Dueling disqualifies person to hold officesection61.101. Definitionssection61.102. Reprisal against public employee for disclosure of violations of law prohibited -- Construction of statutesection61.103. Definitions of "disclosure" and "contributing factor" -- Civil action by employee authorized -- Evidencesection61.105. Immunity for persons bringing evidence against an executive branch official involving conduct relating to the transition between officials -- Definitions for section -- Exception in case of perjurysection61.110. State officers at capital may retain residence in home districtsection61.120. Salary -- Deduction from for failure to perform dutysection61.130. Salary of county attorney, county judge/executive or Commonwealth's attorney -- How deductedsection61.140. Repealed, 1978section61.150. Member of General Assembly -- How salary deductedsection61.160. Closing public officessection61.165. Smoking policy for governmental office buildings or workplaces and postsecondary education institutionssection61.167. Smoking prohibited in public areas of Capitol and Capitol Annex -- "Public area" defined -- Each branch may designate smoking areas -- Requirements for smoking areasection61.168. Body-worn cameras and video and audio recordings -- Disclosure, retention, and availability for viewing governed by KRS 61.870 to 61.884 and 171.410 to 171.740 -- Exceptionssection61.169. Attorney representing person or entity involved in body-worn camera recording incident -- Right to view copy of recording -- Limitations -- Sanctionssection61.170. Malfeasance or neglect of county officers -- Penaltysection61.180. Drunkenness of officer on duty -- Penaltysection61.190. Repealed, 2003section61.200. Jury fees, penalty for buyingsection61.210. Justices, county judges/executive, county attorneys, and mayors or council members of consolidated local government not to be interested in public improvements -- Penaltysection61.220. Fiscal court members and mayors or council members of a consolidated local government not to be interested in public improvements or claims against county -- Penaltysection61.230. Sheriff and collector not to be interested in public improvements or claims against state or county -- Penaltysection61.240. County attorney and clerks not to buy claims against county -- Penaltysection61.250. Repealed, 1994section61.251. Definitions for KRS 61.252section61.252. Prohibition against city officers and employees contracting with city or city agency for property or services -- Exceptions -- Penaltysection61.260. Repealed, 1994section61.270. Repealed, 1994section61.280. Repealed, 1994section61.290. Repealed, 1958section61.295. Repealed, 1958section61.298. Required written police pursuit policies -- Subjects to be addressed -- Filing with Justice and Public Safety Cabinet -- Officers’ written confirmation of receipt -- Annual review -- Purposesection61.300. Nonelective peace officer or deputy -- Qualificationssection61.310. Compensation of peace officers -- Other employment -- Gratuities -- Penaltiessection61.315. Benefits payable on death of certain peace officers, firefighters, correctional 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 firefighter's deathsection61.316. Repealed, 2002section61.320. County road officials to turn over money to successor -- Penalty for failuresection61.330. Chief state school officer to deliver effects to successor -- Penaltysection61.340. County or city clerk to deliver records to successor -- Penalty for failuresection61.350. Cemetery companies and burying grounds, penalty for failure to enforce laws relating tosection61.360. Special local peace officers -- Appointment -- Fee -- Qualifications -- Removal -- Duties -- Not to impersonate public police officersection61.362. Agreement permitting peace officers to patrol private residential property to enforce state and local traffic and motor vehicle lawssection61.365. Named federal employees deemed peace officers in Kentuckysection61.370. Repealed, 1966section61.371. Definitions for KRS 61.371 to 61.377section61.373. Restoration of public employee to position after military duty -- Right to leave of absence -- Appealssection61.375. Restored employee discharged only for cause for year -- Senioritysection61.377. Leaves of absence to permit induction in military servicesection61.379. Repealed, 2023section61.380. Certain counties may pay attendance expenses of officers at conferences, meetings or hearings -- Statement of expenses to be filedsection61.385. Certain counties may reimburse officers and employees for use of personal motor vehicles on official businesssection61.387. Equipment of conspicuously marked law enforcement vehicles used for transportation of prisonerssection61.390. Facsimile signatures and seals on certain public securities -- Optionssection61.392. Cabinets to report to Legislative Research Commission on number of full- time employees and full-time equivalents working under contractsection61.394. State employees' leave of absence -- Pay -- Unused military leavesection61.395. Leave time for state employee who is disaster services volunteer -- Short titlesection61.396. Employees of political subdivisions eligiblesection61.400. Suspension or removal of judgesection61.405. Use of excess fees by county sheriff or county clerk for health insurance or health maintenance organization coveragesection61.407. Transfer of leave balances and retirement service credits from unified prosecutorial system to executive branchsection61.409. Law enforcement agency not to establish requirements for employees relating to residency or voter registration -- Exceptions -- Applicationsection61.410. Declaration of policysection61.420. Definitions for KRS 61.410 to 61.500section61.430. Federal-state agreementsection61.435. Referendum on coverage under agreement -- Separate system for state collegessection61.440. Interstate instrumentalitiessection61.450. Contributions by state employeessection61.460. Plans for coverage of employees of political subdivisionssection61.470. Contribution fund and contingent liability fundsection61.480. State contributions authorizedsection61.490. Rules and regulationssection61.500. Retroactive effect of KRS 61.410 to 61.500section61.505. Kentucky Public Pensions Authority -- Purpose -- Membership, vacancies, compensation, and meetings -- Authority granted powers and privileges of corporation -- Executive director, chief auditor, and employees -- Expenses -- Authorization of administrative expenses -- Duties of memberssection61.510. Definitions for KRS 61.510 to 61.705section61.515. Retirement system established -- Fund createdsection61.520. Participation determined by board and fixed by executive order -- Authority for ordersection61.521. Repealed, 1996section61.522. Definitions -- Voluntary and involuntary cessation of participation by employer in retirement system -- Effects of on employees, employers, and system -- Statutes and administrative regulations that prevail regarding participationsection61.523. Cessation of participation by employer in retirement system and establishment of a governmental plan -- Effects of on employees and employers -- No legislative determination that employer ceasing to participate is a "governmental agency."section61.525. Membershipsection61.526. Employee and employer may file statement of facts at retirement office -- Procedures for verificationsection61.527. Extension of system to include police court judges and their present and 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 systemsection61.530. Nonelection of membership -- Penaltysection61.535. Cessation of membership -- Conditions -- Forfeiture of retirement benefits. (Effective April 1, 2021)section61.540. Statement of member and employer -- Summary plan descriptionsection61.541. Creditable compensation of fee officerssection61.542. Designation of principal and contingent beneficiaries -- Rights -- Effects of change in certain conditions -- Designation following cessation of membershipsection61.543. Deduction or pick-up of employee contributions -- Service credit -- Educational leavesection61.545. Service credit determination -- Division of service creditsection61.546. Sick leave for employees who began participating before January 1, 2014section61.547. Transfer of annual and sick leave balances by employeessection61.550. Cessation of membership -- Loss of allowance and benefitssection61.552. Credit for service -- Purchases and grantssection61.553. Service credit -- Policesection61.554. Repealed, 2000section61.555. Repealed, 2021section61.557. Service credit -- United States employment servicesection61.558. Repealed, 2004section61.559. Service required for retirement allowance of members who began participating before January 1, 2014section61.560. Employee's contribution -- Rate -- Picked-up employee contributionssection61.565. Employer's contributions -- Computation of normal cost contribution and accrued liability -- Contribution -- Notification of change in employer contribution rate -- Costs for employer pay credits -- Employers to pay full contributionsection61.567. Employer's contributions by credit unionsection61.569. Reinstated employee -- Contributions on creditable compensationsection61.570. Fund assetssection61.575. Members' account -- Interest -- Transfer of account balance to retirement allowance accountsection61.580. Retirement allowance accountsection61.585. Repealed, 1976section61.590. Filing of Notification of Retirement and Estimated Retirement Allowance forms -- Selection of payment option -- Effective datesection61.592. Retirement of persons working in hazardous positionssection61.593. Retirement allowance of former member in hazardous positionsection61.595. Annual retirement allowance -- Limitationssection61.596. Repealed, 2000section61.597. Hybrid cash balance plan for certain members of Kentucky Employees Retirement System in nonhazardous duty positions -- Member contributions and employer pay credits -- Interest credits -- Termination of employment -- Options upon retirementsection61.598. Limitations and exclusions on increases in creditable compensation in last five years of service for employees retiring on or after January 1, 2018 -- Exceptions -- Employer to pay actuarial costs resulting from certain increases in creditable compensation -- Inquiries from employers -- Hearing and appeal -- Reporting of exemptions -- Inapplicability to hybrid cash balance and moneysection61.599. Calculation of retirement allowance for members of Kentucky Employees Retirement Systemsection61.600. Disability retirementsection61.605. Disability retirement allowancesection61.607. Maximum disability benefit -- Determination -- Combined payments not increased as a result of legislation -- Annual report by disability recipientsection61.610. Employment and medical review after disability retirement -- Filing of review forms -- Duty of system to assist in obtaining records -- Disability fraud investigatorsection61.615. Vocational experts -- Disability retirement allowance -- Reduction -- Discontinuance -- Determinations by medical examiner or vocational expert -- Hearings and appeals -- Early retirement and reinstatement of disability allowance for member who began participating before January 1, 2014section61.620. Repealed, 1976section61.621. Fred Capps Memorial Act -- Eligibility for benefits for duty-related injury -- Benefits for surviving spouse and dependent children -- Receipt of benefits pending final determinationsection61.623. Electronic fund transfer of retirement allowance required -- Exceptionssection61.625. Refund of account balance or contributionssection61.626. Repealed, 2009section61.630. Death after retirement -- Refund of contributionssection61.635. Optional retirement planssection61.637. Suspension of retirement payments on reemployment -- Reinstatement -- Recomputation of allowance -- Waiver of provisions in certain instances -- Reemployment in a different position -- Effect of reemployment of retired member -- Retired member serving as volunteer, independent contractor, or leased employee -- Effect of reelection for same office -- Resignation notsection61.640. Death before retirement -- Beneficiary's options -- Taxable distributionssection61.645. Kentucky Retirement Systems board of trustees -- Powers -- Members -- Chief executive officer, general counsel, and other employees -- Appeals -- Other duties -- Limitation on Governor's authority -- Annual Comprehensive Financial Report -- Trustee education program -- Information made available to publicsection61.646. Transfer of administration of County Employees Retirement System from Kentucky Retirement Systems board of trustees to County Employees Retirement System board of trustees established in KRS 78.782 -- Intent to enact future legislation. (Effective April 1, 2021)section61.650. Board is trustee of funds -- Investment committee -- Standards of conduct -- Registration of securities -- Control over assets in custodial account -- Application of open records law -- Cap on amount of assets managed by any one investment manager -- Investment procurement policy -- Proxy voting guidelinessection61.652. Administration of all excess benefit plans -- Participation in plan -- Determination of benefit amount -- Required contribution of planssection61.655. Conflict of interest -- Trustees, employees, members of General Assembly, public servantssection61.660. Custodian of funds -- Cash and securitiessection61.661. Member's account confidential -- Release of certain information from accounts of current or former legislators -- Response to subpoenassection61.663. Excess benefit plan -- Purpose -- Excess benefit fundsection61.665. Medical examiners -- Ruling on disability retirement -- Appealsection61.670. Duties of board -- Actuarial tables, valuations, investigations, and analyses - - Audit -- Actuary for Legislative Research Commissionsection61.675. Employer's administrative duties -- Audit -- Filing of contributions and reports -- Delinquency in making installment paymentssection61.680. Consent of employees to deductions -- Consolidation for determination of eligibility and determination of benefits -- Waiver -- Choice among retirement systems -- Reciprocal arrangementssection61.685. Records -- Audits -- Authority's enforcement powers -- Limitation of liability -- Fraudulent claims to obtain benefits -- Investigation, enforcement, and penaltiessection61.690. Exemption of retirement allowances -- Taxability after December 31, 1997 - - Domestic relations orderssection61.691. Increase of benefitssection61.692. Benefits not to be reduced or impaired for members who began participating before January 1, 2014 -- Exceptions -- Amendment of benefits and rightssection61.695. Repealed, 1972section61.699. System's ability to require statements under oathsection61.700. Repealed, 1975section61.701. Kentucky Retirement Systems insurance trust fund -- Purpose -- Participation, regulation, and terminationsection61.702. Group hospital and medical insurance plan -- Inclusion in Kentucky Employees Health Plan -- Employee and employer contributions -- Minimum service requirements -- Members with service in other retirement systems -- Exemption from premium tax -- Administrative regulationsection61.703. Collection of benefit less than $1,000 by surviving relativesection61.705. Death benefit -- Designation of beneficiary -- Debt owed at death -- Assignment of benefitsection61.706. Kentucky Retirement Systems unfunded liability trust fundsection61.710. Persons subject to KRS 61.710 to 61.780section61.720. Definitionssection61.730. Date for filing reportssection61.740. Information required to be filedsection61.750. Reports are public records -- Publication of names of persons failing to filesection61.760. Registry may appoint employees, adopt regulations, hold hearingssection61.770. Registry may institute action to declare vacancy upon determination violation occurredsection61.780. Constructionsection61.782. Repealed, 1992section61.784. Repealed, 1992section61.786. Repealed, 1992section61.788. Repealed, 1992section61.790. Repealed, 1992section61.791. Definitions for KRS 61.791 to 61.799section61.793. Prohibition against disclosure of personal informationsection61.795. Exemptions to prohibition against disclosure of personal informationsection61.797. Civil action for violation -- Damagessection61.799. Severability clausesection61.800. Legislative statement of policysection61.805. Definitions for KRS 61.805 to 61.850section61.810. Exceptions to open meetingssection61.815. Requirements for conducting closed sessionssection61.820. Schedule of regular meetings to be made availablesection61.823. Special meetings -- Emergency meetingssection61.825. Repealed, 1992section61.826. Video teleconferencing of meetingssection61.830. Repealed, 1992section61.835. Minutes to be recorded -- Open to publicsection61.840. Conditions for attendancesection61.845. Repealed, 1992section61.846. Enforcement by administrative procedure -- Appealsection61.848. Enforcement by judicial action -- De novo determination in appeal of Attorney General's decision -- Voidability of action not substantially complying -- Awards in willful violation actionssection61.850. Constructionsection61.870. Definitions for KRS 61.870 to 61.884section61.871. Policy of KRS 61.870 to 61.884 -- Strict construction of exceptions of KRS 61.878section61.872. Right of Kentucky residents to inspect public records -- Written application -- Limitationsection61.874. Abstracts, memoranda, copies -- Agency may prescribe fee -- Use of nonexempt public records for commercial purposes -- Online accesssection61.876. Agency to adopt rules and regulations -- Standardized form to request public recordssection61.878. Certain public records exempted from inspection except on order of court -- Restriction of state employees to inspect personnel files prohibitedsection61.880. Denial of inspection -- Role of Attorney Generalsection61.882. Jurisdiction of Circuit Court in action seeking right of inspection -- Burden of proof -- Costs -- Attorney feessection61.884. Person's access to record relating to himsection61.886. Appointment and commissioning of peace officers for the Breaks Interstate Park Commission and the Tennessee Valley Authoritysection61.887. Powers of TVA and commission peace officerssection61.888. Cessation of powerssection61.889. Bond -- Oath -- Copies of bonds to be recordedsection61.890. Compensationsection61.891. Identificationsection61.892. Disposition of persons arrested by TVA peace officersection61.900. Definitions for KRS 61.902 to 61.930section61.902. Appointment of special law enforcement officers by secretarysection61.904. Administration -- Administrative regulations -- Employeessection61.906. Requirements for appointmentsection61.908. Feessection61.910. Revocation or suspension of commissionsection61.912. Power of arrestsection61.914. Other powerssection61.916. Use of deadly force to make an arrestsection61.918. Use of force less than deadly forcesection61.920. Area of jurisdiction of special officersection61.922. Constructionsection61.924. Use of public emergency vehiclessection61.926. Special officers designated peace officers -- Authorization to carry a concealed deadly weaponsection61.928. Repealed, 1978section61.930. Citation of actsection61.931. Definitions for KRS 61.931 to 61.934section61.932. Personal information security and breach investigation procedures and practices for certain public agencies and nonaffiliated third partiessection61.933. Notification of personal information security breach -- Investigation -- Notice to affected individuals of result of investigation -- Personal information not subject to requirements -- Injunctive relief by Attorney Generalsection61.934. Personal information security and breach investigation procedures and practices for legislative and judicial branches -- Personal information disposal or destruction proceduressection61.935. Renumbered as KRS 11.501section61.936. Renumbered as KRS 11.511section61.937. Repealed, 2000section61.938. Repealed, 2000section61.940. Repealed, 2000section61.942. Repealed, 2000section61.945. Repealed, 2000section61.948. Repealed, 2000section61.950. Repealed, 2000section61.951. Repealed, 2000section61.953. Repealed, 2000section61.954. Repealed, 2000section61.955. Repealed, 2000section61.957. Repealed, 2001section61.958. Renumbered as KRS 11.515section61.959. Renumbered as KRS 11.517section61.960. Repealed, 1994section61.965. Repealed, 1994section61.970. Repealed, 1994section61.975. Repealed, 1994section61.980. Definitions for KRS 61.980 to 61.988section61.982. Access requirements for state information technology equipment and softwaresection61.984. Procurement of information technology -- Technology access contract clause -- Alternative and nonvisual access standardssection61.986. Exclusion of technology access clause -- Conditions -- Exempting from access requirements -- Compliance of existing equipment or softwaresection61.988. Action for injunctive relief for injury due to violation of KRS 61.980 to 61.988section61.990. Penaltiessection61.991. Penaltiessection61.992. Repealed, 1994section61.5525. Repealed, 2021section61.5955. Election by member participating in KERS, CERS, or SPRS on or after September 1, 2008, but before January 1, 2014 -- Participation in hybrid cash balance plan -- Private letter ruling -- Administrative regulations -- Restrictionsection61.5956. Repealed, 2021section61.5991. Quasi-governmental employers participating in KERS -- Required reports -- Audits -- Legislative intent regarding future appropriations to subsidize retirement costs -- Non-core services independent contractorsection61.7991. Definitions -- Written request -- Prohibition of disclosure of identifiable information of judicial officers and immediate family -- Civil actionsection61.8715. Legislative findingssection61.8745. Damages recoverable by public agency for person's misuse of public recordssection61.8746. Commercial use of booking photographs or official inmate photographs prohibited -- Conditions -- Right of action -- Damagessection61.8865. State parks' commissioner to ensure recommended commission peace officers meet certain requirements -- Training and equipment expensessection61.9305. Working group on facial recognition technology -- Members -- Duties -- Use policy requirements for law enforcement agencies that use facial recognition technologysection61.9307. Tik Tok application -- Prohibition on use on state-owned networks and devices by executive and legislative branch employees and contractors -- Exceptions
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