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211.900 Definitions for KRS 211.900 to 211.905 and KRS 211.994.
As used in KRS 211.900 to 211.905 and KRS 211.994, unless the context otherwise
requires:
(1) "Cabinet" shall mean the Cabinet for Health and Family Services;
(2) "Secretary" shall mean the secretary for health and family services or his
authorized representative;
(3) "Lead-based hazard" shall mean levels contained in the federal Residential
Lead-based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992;
(4) "Dwelling" shall mean any structure or child-occupied facility, all or a part of
which is designed for human habitation;
(5) "Dwelling unit" shall mean any room or group of rooms or other interior areas
of a dwelling or child-occupied facility designed or used for human habitation;
(6) "Owner" shall mean any person who, alone, jointly, or severally with others,
has legal title to, charge, care, or control of any dwelling or dwelling unit as
owner, agent of the owner, or as executor, administrator, trustee, conservator,
or guardian of the estate of the owner;
(7) "At-risk persons" shall mean all children seventy-two (72) months of age and
younger and pregnant women who reside in dwellings or dwelling units which
were constructed and painted prior to 1978, or reside in geographic areas
defined by the cabinet as high risk, or possess one (1) or more risk factors
identified in a lead poisoning verbal risk assessment approved by the cabinet;
(8) "Outreach programs" shall mean those efforts to locate, screen, and diagnose
for elevated lead blood levels, those at-risk persons who are not utilizing
existing screening and diagnostic programs or those programs which may be
established after June 21, 1974;
(9) "Elevated blood lead level" means any blood lead level greater than or equal to
ten (10) micrograms per deciliter of whole blood or a level consistent with
recommendations by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the
American Academy of Pediatrics; and
(10) "Confirmed elevated blood lead level" means a first venous blood lead test or a
second capillary blood lead test taken within the time frames specified by the
cabinet where the blood lead test result is greater than or equal to fifteen (15)
micrograms per deciliter of whole blood.
Effective:July 12, 2006
History: Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 180, sec. 2, effective July 12, 2006. -Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 390, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended
1998 Ky. Acts ch. 426, sec. 330, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1982 Ky.
Acts ch. 141, sec. 72, effective July 1, 1982. -- Created 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 20,
sec. 1, effective June 21, 1974.
Note: 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 396, sec. 76 would have amended this section effective
July 1, 1982. However, 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 396 was repealed by 1982 Ky. Acts
ch. 141, sec. 146, also effective July 1, 1982.
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