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411.060 Action for libel -- Privileged communications.
The publication of a fair and impartial report of any proceeding before any state or
city legislative or executive body, board or officer, or the whole or a fair synopsis of
any bill, report, resolution, bulletin, notice, petition, or other document presented,
filed, or used in any proceeding before any state or city legislative or executive body,
board or officer, shall be privileged, unless it is proved that the publication was
maliciously made. The publication of a fair and impartial report or the whole or a
synopsis of any indictment, warrant, affidavit, pleading or other document in any
criminal or civil action in any court of competent jurisdiction shall be privileged,
unless it is proved that it was published maliciously, or that the defendant after
request by the plaintiff has failed to publish a reasonable explanation or contradiction
thereof, giving the explanation or contradiction the same prominence and space as
the original publication, or that the publisher has refused after request by the plaintiff
to publish the subsequent determination of the proceeding. This section shall not
authorize the publication of any indecent matter.
Effective:October 1, 1942
History: Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from
Ky. Stat. sec. 2438b-2.
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