2015 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 44 - CLAIMS UPON THE TREASURY 44.045 Motor vehicles, purchase for state use -- License plates -- Markings and administrative regulations.
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44.045 Motor vehicles, purchase for state use -- License plates -- Markings and
administrative regulations.
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A passenger motor vehicle or vehicles may be purchased by the Finance and
Administration Cabinet for the use of the Governor and the Lieutenant Governor.
Motor vehicles, including passenger motor vehicles, may be purchased by the
Finance and Administration Cabinet as are deemed necessary by the secretary of the
Finance and Administration Cabinet or by the secretary of the Transportation
Cabinet for the discharge of the authorized duties and functions of the various
agencies of the state. The vehicles shall be used for official purposes only and for no
other purposes. The assignment of passenger motor vehicles to specific individuals
shall be discouraged but may be made upon approval by the secretary of the Finance
and Administration Cabinet of a written request to make the assignment by the head
of the agency involved.
All motor vehicles purchased pursuant to this section shall be issued official license
plates and shall bear on one (1) door on each side the great seal of the
Commonwealth, and the words "For official use only." It shall not be necessary that
the vehicles purchased pursuant to subsections (1), (4), and (5) of this section bear
the seal and the words.
The Department of Revenue, Justice and Public Safety Cabinet, and the Department
of Law may, upon approval by the secretary of the Finance and Administration
Cabinet of a written request by the head of the agency involved, register a vehicle or
vehicles under KRS 186.020 and be issued regular license plates. The vehicles shall
be used for investigatory purposes only and for no other purposes.
The Administrative Office of the Courts may register a vehicle or vehicles used by
Justices and Judges of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals under KRS 186.020
and be issued regular license plates.
The secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet may adopt administrative
regulations pursuant to KRS Chapter 13A necessary to govern the use of those
state-owned vehicles acquired pursuant to the provisions of this section.
Any person violating subsections (2) and (4) of this section shall, on conviction
thereof, be subject to the penalties prescribed in KRS 44.990.
Effective: June 26, 2007
History: Amended 2007 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 124, effective June 26, 2007. -- Amended
1996 Ky. Acts ch. 305, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1996. -- Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch.
28, sec. 1, effective July 13, 1990. -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 74, Art. II, sec.
9(1); and ch. 74, Art. V, sec. 24(1). -- Created 1968 Ky. Acts ch. 175, sec. 1.
Legislative Research Commission Note (6/26/2007). 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 85, relating to
the creation and organization of the Finance and Administration Cabinet, instructs the
Reviser of Statutes to correct statutory references to agencies and officers whose
names have been changed in that Act. Such a correction has been made in this
section.
Legislative Research Commission Note (8/18/2011). 2009 Ky. Acts ch. 12, relating to
the reorganization of the Finance and Administration Cabinet, instructs the Reviser of
Statutes to correct statutory references to agencies and officers whose names have
been changed in that Act. Such a correction has been made in subsection (6) of this
section.
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