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2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 523 - PERJURY AND RELATED OFFENSES
523.020 Perjury in the first degree.

KY Rev Stat § 523.020 (2014) What's This?

Download as PDF 523.020 Perjury in the first degree. (1) (2) (3) A person is guilty of perjury in the first degree when he makes a material false statement, which he does not believe, in any official proceeding under an oath required or authorized by law; or When he makes a material false statement which he does not believe in a subscribed written instrument for which an oath is required or authorized by law, with the intent to mislead a public servant in the performance of his official functions when such person is subscribing a warrant accusing his spouse of an offense under KRS Chapter 510. Perjury in the first degree is a Class D felony. Effective:July 15, 1986 History: Amended 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 486, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1986. -Created 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 406, sec. 191, effective January 1, 1975.

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