2013 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 39F - LOCAL RESCUE PROGRAMS - STATE AND LOCAL SEARCH AND RESCUE PROGRAMS 39F.180 Reports of search and rescue missions -- Golden Alert D -- Golden Alert -- Immediate search for lost, missing, or overdue person permitted.
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39F.180 Reports of search and rescue missions -- Golden Alert D -- Golden
Alert -- Immediate search for lost, missing, or overdue person permitted.
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All 911 centers and dispatch centers, law enforcement agencies, law
enforcement dispatchers, fire departments, rescue squads, emergency medical
service agencies, and emergency management agencies shall report the
information required to be reported by administrative regulation, for all reports
of persons missing, lost, or overdue, if a search for the lost person has lasted
for more than two (2) hours to:
(a) The local emergency management director; and
(b) The local search and rescue coordinator for the jurisdiction in which the
person is reported missing.
(a) Any search for a missing minor, as that term is defined in KRS 2.015,
shall be immediately reported to the Department of Kentucky State Police
by the person or organization to whom the missing minor is reported.
(b) A search for an impaired person as defined in KRS 39F.010(3)(a) shall
immediately be reported as a Golden Alert D to the local emergency
management director, local search and rescue coordinator if different
from the local emergency manager, local media outlets, and the duty
officer of the Division of Emergency Management by the person
managing the search or by the organization conducting the search.
(c) A search for an impaired person as defined in KRS 39F.010(3)(b) shall
immediately be reported as a Golden Alert to the local emergency
management director, local search and rescue coordinator if different
from the local emergency manager, local media outlets, and the duty
officer of the Division of Emergency Management by the person
managing the search or by the organization conducting the search. The
provisions of this section do not apply to any licensed long-term health
care provider conducting a search for a missing resident until the provider
requests a search by a person or organization specified in subsection (1)
of this section.
(d) The making of this report does not relieve the person or organization from
the duty to make other notifications and reports required in this section.
Any search and rescue mission which has lasted four (4) hours without the
subject being located shall be immediately reported to the duty officer of the
Division of Emergency Management by telephone or radio.
The results of each lost, missing, or overdue person report or search mission
required to be reported under subsections (1) to (3) of this section shall be
reported to the division and the local director on forms provided by the division
and containing the information required by administrative regulation. The report
shall be filed within twenty (20) days after:
(a) The search and rescue mission is discontinued; or
(b) The victim has not been found and a decision is made to keep the case
open or continue searching on a limited basis, whichever occurs earlier.
Each agency required to notify a local emergency management director or the
division of a report of a missing person, or a search mission pursuant to this
section shall develop a written standard operating procedure for handling and
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reporting requests to search for missing, lost, or overdue persons. This
standard operating procedure shall be a public record.
The contents of reports, information to be conveyed upon notification, and
other matters relating to the administration of this section and the securing of
information required hereby shall be specified by the division by administrative
regulations.
There is no requirement in Kentucky to delay the search for or rescue of any
lost, missing, or overdue person. Any person who is reported lost, missing, or
overdue, adult or child, may be searched for immediately by any emergency
management, fire, law enforcement, emergency medical services, search and
rescue, rescue squad, or other similar organization to which a missing or
overdue person is reported. No public safety answering point, emergency
dispatch center, or 911 center shall delay any call reporting a person lost,
overdue, or missing to the organization specified in the county search and
rescue annex of the county emergency management plan as responsible for
searching for lost, missing, or overdue persons.
Effective:July 12, 2012
History: Amended 2012 Ky. Acts ch. 106, sec. 4, effective July 12, 2012. -Amended 2008 Ky. Acts ch. 109, sec. 3, effective July 15, 2008. -- Amended
2007 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 122, effective June 26, 2007. -- Amended 2002 Ky.
Acts ch. 136, sec. 1, effective July 15, 2002. -- Created 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 226,
sec. 100, 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 (7/12/2012). Although 2012 Ky. Acts ch.
106, sec. 4, contains a reference to "Section 1 of this Act" (KRS 211.575) in
subsection (2)(b) of this statute, that reference has been codified as KRS
39F.010 (2012 Ky. Acts ch. 106, sec. 2) to correct the failure to make the
necessary adjustment to this internal reference when the text of Senate Bill
93/SCS 2 was added to the draft in the Senate Committee Substitute to House
Bill 467. This manifest clerical or typographical error has been corrected in
codification under KRS 7.136(1)(h).
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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