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35.685 Stalking.
(1)
(2)
Any person subject to this code is guilty of stalking and shall be punished as a
court-martial may direct who:
(a) Wrongfully engages in a course of conduct directed at a specific person that
would cause a reasonable person to fear death or bodily harm, including
sexual assault, to himself or herself or a member of his or her immediate
family;
(b) Has knowledge, or should have knowledge, that the specific person will be
placed in reasonable fear of death or bodily harm, including sexual assault, to
himself or herself or a member of his or her immediate family; and
(c) Induces reasonable fear in the specific person or bodily harm, including sexual
assault, to himself or herself or to a member of his or her immediate family,
through the person's actions.
In this section:
(a) "Course of conduct" means:
1.
A repeated maintenance of visual or physical proximity to a specific
person; or
2.
A repeated conveyance of verbal threat, written threats, or threats
implied by conduct, or a combination of these threats, directed at or
towards a specific person;
(b) "Repeated," with respect to conduct, means two (2) or more occasions of that
conduct; and
(c) "Immediate family," in the case of a specific person, means a spouse, parent,
child, or sibling of the person, or any other family member, relative, or
intimate partner of the person who regularly resides in the household of the
person or who within the six (6) months preceding the commencement of the
course of conduct regularly resided in the household of the person.
Effective: June 25, 2013
History: Created 2013 Ky. Acts ch. 32, sec. 123, effective June 25, 2013.
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