2015 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 304 - INSURANCE CODE Subtitle 39 - Motor Vehicle Reparations Act 39.39-117 Motor vehicle insurance card to be in paper or electronic format -- Presentation of electronic insurance card to peace officer.
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304.39-117 Motor vehicle insurance card to be in paper or electronic format -Presentation of electronic insurance card to peace officer.
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Each insurer issuing an insurance contract which provides security covering a motor
vehicle shall provide to the insured, in compliance with administrative regulations
promulgated by the department, written proof in the form of an insurance card that
the insured has in effect an insurance contract providing security in conformity with
this subtitle. An insurer may provide an insurance card in either a paper or an
electronic format.
If an owner enters into an insurance contract on a newly acquired motor vehicle, or
changes insurance carriers on an existing motor vehicle, the owner shall keep the
paper insurance card or a portable electronic device to download the insurance card
in his or her motor vehicle for forty-five (45) days from the date the coverage took
effect as prima facie evidence that the required security is currently in full force and
effect, and shall show the card to a peace officer upon request.
As to personal motor vehicles as defined in KRS 304.39-087, the paper or
electronic insurance card or the database created by KRS 304.39-087 shall be
evidence to a peace officer who requests the card if the peace officer has access to
the database through AVIS. If AVIS does not list the vehicle identification number
of the personal motor vehicle as an insured vehicle, the peace officer may accept a
paper or electronic insurance card as evidence that the required security is currently
in full force and effect on the personal motor vehicle if the card was effective no
more than forty-five (45) days before the date on which the peace officer requests
the card.
For purposes of this section:
(a) An insurance card in an electronic format means the display of an image on
any portable electronic device, including a cellular phone or any other type of
portable electronic device, depicting a current valid representation of the card;
(b) Whenever a person presents a mobile electronic device pursuant to this
section, that person assumes all liability for any damage to the mobile
electronic device; and
(c) When a person provides evidence of financial responsibility using a mobile
electronic device to a peace officer, the peace officer shall only view the
electronic image of the insurance card and is prohibited from viewing any
other content on the mobile electronic device.
Effective: July 15, 2014
History: Amended 2014 Ky. Acts ch. 10, sec. 1, effective July 15, 2014. -- Amended
2013 Ky. Acts ch. 83, sec. 1, effective June 25, 2013. -- Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch.
24, sec. 1528, effective July 15, 2010. -- Amended 2004 Ky. Acts ch. 130, sec. 5,
effective July 13, 2004. -- Created 1988 Ky. Acts ch. 348, sec. 1, effective July 15,
1988.
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