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353.991 Penalties for violation of KRS 353.500 to 353.720.
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Any person who violates any provision of KRS 353.570 shall be subject to a fine of
not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) or imprisonment for a term not
exceeding one hundred and eighty (180) days, or both.
Any person who continues to violate any provision of KRS 353.500 to 353.720, or
any regulation or order promulgated or issued under KRS 353.500 to 353.720 after
being notified in writing of the violation by the department shall be subject to a fine
of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) or imprisonment for a term not
exceeding one hundred and eighty (180) days, or both.
Any person who does any of the following for the purpose of evading or violating
KRS 353.500 to 353.720, or any regulation or order promulgated or issued under
KRS 353.500 to 353.720 shall be subject to a fine of not more than one thousand
dollars ($1,000) or imprisonment for a term not exceeding one hundred and eighty
(180) days, or both:
(a) Makes or causes to be made a false entry or statement in a report, record,
account or memorandum, required by KRS 353.500 to 353.720, or by any
regulation or order;
(b) Omits or causes to be omitted from a report, record, account or memorandum
full, true, and correct entries and information as required by KRS 353.500 to
353.720, or by any regulation or order;
(c) Removes from this Commonwealth or destroys, mutilates, alters or falsifies a
report, record, account or memorandum required by KRS 353.500 to 353.720,
or by any regulation or order.
Any person who knowingly aids or abets any other person in the violation of any
provision of KRS 353.500 to 353.720, or any regulation or order promulgated or
issued under KRS 353.500 to 353.720 shall be subject to the same penalty as that
prescribed in this section for the violation by the other person.
Any person who violates the provisions of KRS 353.655 shall be notified by the
department that he has twenty (20) days in which to remedy the violation. If after
the twenty (20) day time period has elapsed he has failed or refused to comply with
the provisions of KRS 353.655, he shall be subject to a fine of twenty dollars ($20)
a day until the oil or gas well is brought into compliance.
Effective: July 13, 1990
History: Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 10, sec. 1, effective July 13, 1990. -- Amended
1984 Ky. Acts ch. 244, sec. 2, effective January 1, 1985. -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts
ch. 45, sec. 8. -- Created 1960 Ky. Acts ch. 103, sec. 24, effective June 16, 1960.
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