2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 44 - CLAIMS UPON THE TREASURY 44.045 Motor vehicles, purchase for state use -- License plates -- Markings and administrative regulations.
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44.045 Motor vehicles, purchase for state use -- License plates -- Markings
and administrative regulations.
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A passenger motor vehicle or vehicles may be purchased by the Finance and
Administration Cabinet for the use of the Governor and the Lieutenant
Governor.
Motor vehicles, including passenger motor vehicles, may be purchased by the
Finance and Administration Cabinet as are deemed necessary by the secretary
of the Finance and Administration Cabinet or by the secretary of the
Transportation Cabinet for the discharge of the authorized duties and functions
of the various agencies of the state. The vehicles shall be used for official
purposes only and for no other purposes. The assignment of passenger motor
vehicles to specific individuals shall be discouraged but may be made upon
approval by the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet of a
written request to make the assignment by the head of the agency involved.
All motor vehicles purchased pursuant to this section shall be issued official
license plates and shall bear on one (1) door on each side the great seal of the
Commonwealth, and the words "For official use only." It shall not be necessary
that the vehicles purchased pursuant to subsections (1), (4), and (5) of this
section bear the seal and the words.
The Department of Revenue, Justice and Public Safety Cabinet, and the
Department of Law may, upon approval by the secretary of the Finance and
Administration Cabinet of a written request by the head of the agency involved,
register a vehicle or vehicles under KRS 186.020 and be issued regular license
plates. The vehicles shall be used for investigatory purposes only and for no
other purposes.
The Administrative Office of the Courts may register a vehicle or vehicles used
by Justices and Judges of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals under KRS
186.020 and be issued regular license plates.
The secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet may adopt
administrative regulations pursuant to KRS Chapter 13A necessary to govern
the use of those state-owned vehicles acquired pursuant to the provisions of
this section.
Any person violating subsections (2) and (4) of this section shall, on conviction
thereof, be subject to the penalties prescribed in KRS 44.990.
Effective:June 26, 2007
History: Amended 2007 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 124, effective June 26, 2007. -Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 305, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1996. -- Amended
1990 Ky. Acts ch. 28, sec. 1, effective July 13, 1990. -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts
ch. 74, Art. II, sec. 9(1); and ch. 74, Art. V, sec. 24(1). -- Created 1968 Ky. Acts
ch. 175, sec. 1.
Legislative Research Commission Note (6/26/2007). 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 85,
relating to the creation and organization of the Finance and Administration
Cabinet, instructs the Reviser of Statutes to correct statutory references to
agencies and officers whose names have been changed in that Act. Such a
correction has been made in this section.
Legislative Research Commission Note (8/18/2011). 2009 Ky. Acts ch. 12,
relating to the reorganization of the Finance and Administration Cabinet,
instructs the Reviser of Statutes to correct statutory references to agencies and
officers whose names have been changed in that Act. Such a correction has
been made in subsection (6) of this section.
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