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281.880 Motor carrier safety management audit program -- Safety inspections
and ratings.
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The Department of Kentucky State Police shall establish a motor carrier
safety management audit program applicable to private or for-hire,
intrastate or interstate motor carriers.
(b) The Department of Kentucky State Police may perform safety inspections
on vehicles operated by a motor carrier on public highways and may enter
onto property owned, leased, controlled, or operated by a motor carrier to
inspect any of its vehicles or inspect or copy records relating to vehicle
safety, maintenance, or financial responsibility.
The Department of Kentucky State Police may issue motor carrier safety
ratings to any private or for-hire motor carrier which is based in Kentucky, has a
terminal in Kentucky, or operates consistently in Kentucky. The safety rating
scale and factors determining a carrier's safety rating shall be established by
administrative regulation and shall be compatible with the scale and factors
established by the Federal Highway Administration in Title 49 of the United
States Code of Federal Regulations, Part 385, relating to safety ratings, in
effect as of July 13, 1990, or as amended after that date.
The Department of Kentucky State Police may determine the safety fitness of a
motor carrier and may require the maintenance of or upgrade to a satisfactory
safety rating.
Effective:June 25, 2009
History: Amended 2009 Ky. Acts ch. 75, sec. 18, effective June 25, 2009. -Amended 2007 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 284, effective June 26, 2007. -- Amended
1990 Ky. Acts ch. 466, sec. 1, effective July 13, 1990.
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