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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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