2006 Kentucky Revised Statutes - .200   Definitions for KRS 532.210 to 532.250.

532.200 Definitions for KRS 532.210 to 532.250. As used in KRS 532.210 to 532.250, unless the context otherwise requires: (1)  "Home" means the temporary or permanent residence of a defendant consisting of the actual living area. If more than one (1) residence or family is located on a single piece of property, "home" does not include the residence of any other person who is not part of the social unit formed by the defendant's immediate family. A hospital, nursing care facility, hospice, half-way house, group home, residential treatment facility, or boarding house may serve as a "home" under this section; (2)  "Home incarceration" means use of a person's home for purposes of confinement; (3)  "Violent felony offense" means an offense defined in KRS 507.020 (murder), 507.030 (manslaughter in the first degree), 508.010 (assault in the first degree), 508.020 (assault in the second degree), 509.040 (kidnapping), 510.040 (rape in the first degree), 510.070 (sodomy in the first degree), 510.110 (sexual abuse in the first degree), 511.020 (burglary in the first degree), 513.020 (arson in the first degree), 513.030 (arson in the second degree), 513.040 (arson in the third degree), 515.020 (robbery in the first degree), 515.030 (robbery in the second degree), 520.020 (escape in the first degree), any criminal attempt to commit the offense (KRS 506.010), or conviction as a persistent felony offender (KRS 532.080) when the offender has a felony conviction for any of the above-listed offenses within the five (5) year period preceding the date of the latest conviction; (4)  "Terminal illness" means a medically recognized disease for which the prognosis is death within six (6) months to a reasonable degree of medical certainty; and (5)  "Approved monitoring device" means an electronic device or apparatus which is limited in capability to recording or transmitting information as to the prisoner's presence or non-presence in the home. The devices shall be minimally intrusive. No monitoring device capable of recording or transmitting: (a)  Visual images other than the defendant's face; (b)  Oral or wire communications or any auditory sound other than the defendant's voice; or (c)  Information as to the prisoner's activities while inside the home; shall be approved. Effective: July 15, 1996 History: Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 45, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1996. -- Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 211, sec. 137, effective July 14, 1992. -- Created 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 243, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1986.