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610.180 Financial penalty when child found delinquent.
A parent or other person exercising custodial control or supervision of a child is charged
with the control of such child and shall have the power to exercise parental control and
authority over such child. In any case where a child is adjudicated a public offender and
placed on probation, if the court finds at the hearing that the person having custody of
such child has failed or neglected to subject him to reasonable parental control and
authority, and that such failure or neglect is the proximate cause of the act or acts of the
child upon which the adjudication is based, the court may require such parent to enter into
a recognizance with sufficient surety, in an amount of not more than five hundred dollars
($500), conditioned upon the faithful discharge of the conditions of probation of such
child. If the child thereafter commits a second act and is by reason thereof adjudicated a
public offender, or violates the conditions of probation, and the court finds at the hearing
that the failure or neglect of such parent to subject him to reasonable parental control and
authority or to faithfully discharge the conditions of probation of such child on the part of
such parent, is the proximate cause of the act of the child upon which such second finding
is based, or upon which such child is found to have violated the conditions of his
probation, the court may declare all or a part of the recognizance forfeited and the amount
of such forfeited recognizance shall be applied in payment of any damages which may
have been caused by such child, if there be such damages, otherwise, the proceeds
therefrom, or part remaining after the payment of damages as aforesaid, shall be retained
by the court to apply to any future damages resulting from the act or acts of said child
before he reaches his eighteenth birthday, at which date the remaining proceeds shall be
returned to the parent or guardian. The provisions of this section as it relates to failure or
neglect of parents to subject a child to reasonable parental control and authority shall be
in addition to and not in substitution for any other sections of KRS Chapters 600 to 645
relating to failure or neglect to exercise such parental control or authority. The provisions
of this section shall not apply to foster parents.
Effective: April 10, 1988
History: Amended 1988 Ky. Acts ch. 350, sec. 26, effective April 10, 1988. -- Created
1986 Ky. Acts ch. 423, sec. 37, effective July 1, 1987.
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