2006 Kentucky Revised Statutes - .990   Penalties.

339.990 Penalties. Anyone who employs or permits or suffers any minor to be employed or to work in violation of KRS 339.210 to 339.450, or of any order or ruling issued under the provisions thereof, or obstructs the Office of Workplace Standards, its officers, or agents, or any other person authorized to inspect places of employment under KRS 339.210 to 339.450, or anyone who, having under his control or custody any minor, permits or suffers him to be employed or to work in violation of KRS 339.210 to 339.450, or who sells to a minor any article with the knowledge that the minor intends to sell the article in violation of KRS 339.210 to 339.450 shall be assessed a civil penalty, in accordance with the provisions of KRS 336.985, of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000). Every employer who continues to employ a minor in violation of KRS 339.210 to 339.450 after he has been notified by the Office of Workplace Standards, its officers or agents, shall be assessed a civil penalty, in accordance with the provisions of KRS 336.985, of one hundred dollars ($100) for each day the violation continues and the employment of any minor in violation of KRS 339.210 to 339.450 shall with respect to each minor so employed constitute a separate and distinct offense. Effective: July 13, 1990 History:Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 42, sec. 4, effective July 13, 1990. -- Amended 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 256, sec. 7, effective July 13, 1984; and ch. 414, sec. 33, effective July 13, 1984. -- Created 1948 Ky. Acts ch. 107, sec. 25. Legislative Research Commission Note (6/20/2005). 2005 Ky. Acts chs. 11, 85, 95, 97, 98, 99, 123, and 181 instruct the Reviser of Statutes to correct statutory references to agencies and officers whose names have been changed in 2005 legislation confirming the reorganization of the executive branch. Such a correction has been made in this section.