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7.136 Alterations permitted in maintaining official version of KRS.
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The Commission, in maintaining the official version of the Kentucky Revised
Statutes, shall not alter the sense, meaning, or effect of any act of the General
Assembly, but may:
(a) Renumber sections and parts of sections of the acts of the General
Assembly;
(b) Change the wording of headnotes;
(c) Divide or rearrange sections and parts of sections;
(d) Change words when directed by law;
(e) Change reference numbers to agree with renumbered chapters or
sections, or to make corrections in reference numbers when sections
referred to are repealed or amended and the correction can be made
without change in the law;
(f) Substitute the proper section or chapter numbers for the terms "this act,"
"the preceding section," and the like;
(g) Change capitalization, spelling, and punctuation for the purpose of
uniformity and consistency; and
(h) Correct manifest clerical or typographical errors.
In maintaining the official version of the Kentucky Revised Statutes, the reviser
of statutes may substitute the name of any agency, officer, or instrumentality of
the Commonwealth or of a political subdivision whose name is changed by law
or to which powers, duties, and responsibilities have been transferred by law,
for the name which the agency, officer, or instrumentality previously used or of
the agency which was previously vested with the same powers and charged
with the same duties and responsibilities.
If any section or part of a section of a statute or of any act of the General
Assembly is amended by more than one (1) act at the same session of the
General Assembly, the Commission may incorporate in the statute the section
as amended or altered by the several acts, if each of the amendments,
changes, or alterations can be given effect and incorporated in the section in a
manner which will make the section intelligible. If a conflict appears between
any section amended in an act to revise and amend the Kentucky Revised
Statutes and the same section in any other act adopted at the same session of
the General Assembly, the change or alteration effected by the nonrevisory act
shall be inserted in the section as incorporated in the statute publication.
Effective:January 1, 1997
History: Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 46, sec. 5, effective January 1, 1997. -Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 431, sec. 1, effective April 13, 1992. -- Amended
1984 Ky. Acts ch. 111, sec. 15, effective July 13, 1984. -- Created 1966 Ky. Acts
ch. 85, secs. 1(2), and 2(3); and ch. 255, sec. 282(1), effective June 16, 1966.
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