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39F.010 Definitions for chapter.
The following definitions apply in this chapter unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Developmental disability" has the same meaning as in KRS 387.510;
(2) "General rescue squad" means a rescue squad which performs one (1) or
more of the following functions as a stated mission of the organization:
(a) Light duty rescue;
(b) Extrication of persons from vehicles;
(c) Water rescue and recovery operations not utilizing divers;
(d) Search for lost, trapped, or missing persons not utilizing dogs;
(e) Low angle rescue and recovery operations; and
(f) High angle rescue and recovery operations;
(3) "Impaired person" means a person who has a known or reported:
(a) Developmental disability, including but not limited to autism, or traumatic
brain injury and whose disappearance poses a credible threat to the
health or safety of the person, as determined by the Department of
Kentucky State Police or a local law enforcement agency; or
(b) Physical, mental, or cognitive impairment or organic brain disorder,
including but not limited to Alzheimer's disease, and whose
disappearance poses a credible threat to the health or safety of the
person, as determined by the Department of Kentucky State Police or a
local law enforcement agency;
(4) "Reports and notification" means the reporting and notification of any search
and rescue mission to the appropriate agency or person in the manner as
specified by this chapter;
(5) "Rescue" means gaining access, rendering appropriate care, and transporting
of a person or persons by whatever means, to a safe environment for
appropriate care;
(6) "Rescue squad" means any organization which engages in the search for lost
persons, rescue of persons, rescue of persons who are trapped or who are in
need of rescue services, search for and recovery of drowned persons, or any
other rescue related activity. "Rescue squad" shall not include the rescue of
persons from a fire by a fire department, the extrication of persons from a
vehicle or other activities which an emergency medical technician, emergency
medical technician first responder, or paramedic is authorized to perform
pursuant to applicable statutes and administrative regulations, if the activities
are performed by a person for an ambulance service or in the role of a first
responder. If these activities are performed other than as a first responder or in
the role of an ambulance service and are involved in rescue operations, they
come within the purview of activities of a rescue squad;
(7) "Search" means the process of looking for a person or persons whose location
is not precisely known, and who may be in distress;
(8) "Search and rescue" ("SAR") means the process of looking for a lost, missing,
or overdue person or persons who may be in distress, and rendering care with
the use of appropriately trained and adequately equipped personnel;
(9)
"Search and rescue mission" includes, but is not limited to, searching for a
missing or lost person or persons, cave rescue, high angle or rough terrain
rescue, urban search and rescue, dive rescue and recovery of drowning
victims, inland water search, rescue, and recovery. "Search and rescue" may
also include any mission permitted pursuant to this chapter. A "search and
rescue mission" does not include mine rescue missions under the jurisdiction of
the Department for Natural Resources pursuant to KRS Chapter 351;
(10) "Specialized rescue squad" means a rescue squad which performs one (1) or
more of the following functions as the primary or sole mission of the
organization:
(a) Cave rescue;
(b) Search utilizing dogs for lost, trapped or missing persons;
(c) Search for lost, trapped or missing persons, aircraft, or vehicles, utilizing
aircraft, but does not apply to licensed air ambulances, active or reserve
military organizations, the National Guard, or the Civil Air Patrol; and
(d) Water rescue and recovery operations utilizing divers;
(11) "Traumatic brain injury" has the same meaning as in KRS 211.470; and
(12) "Victim recovery" means the search for and the removal to the jurisdiction of
the coroner of the remains of a person known or believed to be dead. If the
person is found alive, it includes rescue of the person.
Effective:July 12, 2012
History: Amended 2012 Ky. Acts ch. 106, sec. 2, effective July 12, 2012. -Amended 2008 Ky. Acts ch. 109, sec. 1, effective July 15, 2008. -- Amended
2005 Ky. Acts ch. 123, sec. 10, effective June 20, 2005. -- Created 1998 Ky.
Acts ch. 226, sec. 83, effective July 15, 1998.
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/12/2012). 2012 Ky. Acts ch. 106, sec.
6, provides that Sections 2 to 5 of the Act, which included an amendment to this
statute, shall be known as the "Chase McMurray Act."
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/15/2008). 2008 Ky. Acts ch. 109,
sec. 4, provides that Sections 1 to 3 of this Act, which included an amendment
to this statute, shall be known as the "Golden Alert Bill."
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