2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 171 - STATE LIBRARIES -- LIBRARIANS -- STATE ARCHIVES AND RECORDS 171.780 Definitions for KRS 171.780 to 171.788.
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171.780 Definitions for KRS 171.780 to 171.788.
As used in KRS 171.780 to 171.788, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Commission" means the Kentucky Military Heritage Commission.
(2) "Military heritage" means any peacetime, wartime, or other military activity
engaged in by any or all of the thirteen (13) original colonies prior to the
creation of the United States, activities engaged in by the United States,
activities engaged in by the Confederate States of America, and activities of
the Kentucky Militia, the Kentucky National Guard, the Kentucky Air National
Guard, and any other military, quasi-military, or partisan unit operating under
the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth, or which operated within the
Commonwealth. It includes, but is not limited to, the activities of any person
who was born in Kentucky, who was a resident of Kentucky, or whose remains
are interred in Kentucky as well as the activities of formal or informal military
units, paid or volunteer.
(3) "Military heritage site" means any historic geographic site of military heritage
significance declared as such by the commission, pursuant to KRS 171.782,
171.784, and 171.786.
(4) "Military heritage object" means any building, fortification, statue, monument,
marker, work of art, flag, aircraft, field piece, item of military equipment,
weapon, or other physical object of military heritage significance declared as
such by the commission, pursuant to KRS 171.782, 171.784, and 171.786,
including but not limited to buildings, sites, and other landmarks.
Effective:July 15, 2002
History: Created 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 40, sec. 1, effective July 15, 2002.
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