2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 209 - PROTECTION OF ADULTS
209.050 Immunity from civil or criminal liability.

Download as PDF 209.050 Immunity from civil or criminal liability. Anyone acting upon reasonable cause in the making of any report or investigation or participating in the filing of a petition to obtain injunctive relief or emergency protective services for an adult pursuant to this chapter, including representatives of the cabinet in the reasonable performance of their duties in good faith, and within the scope of their authority, shall have immunity from any civil or criminal liability that might otherwise be incurred or imposed. Any such participant shall have the same immunity with respect to participation in any judicial proceeding resulting from such report or investigation and such immunity shall apply to those who render protective services in good faith pursuant either to the consent of the adult or to court order. Effective:July 15, 1980 History: Amended 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 372, sec. 9, effective July 15, 1980. -Created 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 157, sec. 6. Legislative Research Commission Note (11/9/93). A prior reference to the "department" in this statute was changed to "cabinet" pursuant to 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 393, sec. 50(5), and KRS 7.136(2).