2015 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 14 - DEPARTMENT OF STATE 14.260 Address protection program -- Substitute address -- Address protection program fund.
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14.260 Address protection program -- Substitute address -- Address protection
program fund.
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As funds are available, the Secretary of State, or designee, shall promulgate
administrative regulations to expand the address protection program to allow an
applicant or specified guardians to apply to have a substitute address designated to
serve as the address of the participant. Any program created under this section shall:
(a) Collaborate with the Kentucky Commission on Women;
(b) Establish criteria to prohibit certain individuals, including any individual
required to register as a sex offender, from participation in the program;
(c) Allow a participant to request that state and local agencies use the substitute
address as the address of the participant, but agencies may show that they have
a bona fide statutory or administrative requirement for the actual address;
(d) Be open to individuals that are victims of domestic violence and abuse,
stalking, any victim of an offense or an attempt to commit an offense defined
in KRS Chapter 510, 530.020, 530.064(1)(a), 531.310, or 531.320, or any
victim of a similar federal offense or a similar offense from another state or
territory;
(e) Allow an applicant to submit evidence, including a sworn statement, to show
that he or she is a victim of a qualifying offense.
Participation in any program established under this section shall not affect custody
or visitation orders in effect prior to or established during program participation, nor
shall it constitute evidence of any offense and shall not be considered for purposes
of making an order allocating parental responsibilities or parenting time.
No actionable duty nor any right of action shall accrue against the state, any entity
operating an address protection program for the state, an individual operating in his
or her professional capacity on behalf of the confidential address protection
program established in this section, or an employee of the state or municipality in
the event of negligent acts that result in the disclosure of a program participant's
actual address.
The address protection program fund is hereby created as a separate trust fund in the
State Treasury. The address protection program fund shall consist of amounts
received from fees collected pursuant to KRS 23A.208 and 24A.178, amounts
received from appropriations, and any other proceeds from gifts, grants, federal
funds, or any other funds, both public and private, made available for the purposes
of this section.
The address protection program fund shall be administered by the Secretary of State
to operate and maintain the confidential address protection program established in
this section.
Notwithstanding KRS 45.229, address protection program fund amounts not
expended at the close of a fiscal year shall not lapse but shall be carried forward
into the next fiscal year.
Any interest earnings of the address protection program fund shall become a part of
the address protection program fund and shall not lapse.
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Moneys deposited in the address protection program fund are hereby appropriated
for the purposes set forth in this section and shall not be appropriated or transferred
by the General Assembly for any other purposes.
Effective: June 24, 2015
History: Amended 2015 Ky. Acts ch. 101, sec. 3, effective June 24, 2015. -- Created
2013 Ky. Acts ch. 118, sec. 17, effective June 25, 2013.
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