2017 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 286 - KENTUCKY FINANCIAL SERVICES CODE Subtitle 9 - Deferred Deposit Service Business and Check Cashing 286.9-090 Authority to promulgate administrative regulations -- Compliance examination and fee -- Examination, inspection, and confidentiality of records -- Powers of commissioner.
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286.9-090
Authority to promulgate administrative regulations -- Compliance
examination and fee -- Examination, inspection, and confidentiality of records
-- Powers of commissioner.
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The commissioner may adopt reasonable administrative regulations, not
inconsistent with law, for the enforcement of this subtitle.
To assure compliance with the provisions of this subtitle, the commissioner may
examine the business, books, and records of any licensee, and each licensee shall
pay an examination fee sufficient to cover the cost of the examination based upon
fair compensation for time and actual expense as established by order or
administrative regulations.
The affairs of every check cashing and deferred deposit service business licensee
and the records required to be maintained by KRS 286.9-074 are subject at any
time, or from time to time, to such periodic, special, or other examinations by the
commissioner or an examiner of the commissioner within or without this state and
with or without notice to the licensee, as the commissioner deems necessary or
appropriate in the public interest. All books, papers, and records of assets of the
licensee shall be subject to the commissioner's inspection.
Reports of examination, related working papers, or other confidential information in
the possession or control of the commissioner that is provided according to this
subtitle shall be confidential by law and privileged, and shall not be subject to the
Kentucky Open Records Act, KRS 61.870 to 61.884. These reports of examination,
related working papers, or other confidential information shall not be subject to
subpoena, and shall not be subject to discovery or admissible in evidence in any
civil action, unless after notice to the commissioner and a hearing, a court of
competent jurisdiction determines that the commissioner would not be prejudiced.
However, the commissioner may use such reports, working papers, and other
confidential information in the furtherance of any regulatory or legal action brought
as a part of the commissioner's official duties.
Neither the commissioner nor any person who received documents, materials,
reports, or other information while acting under the authority of the commissioner
shall be required to testify in any civil action concerning any reports of examination,
related working papers, or other confidential information subject to subsection (4)
of this section.
In order to assist in the performance of the commissioner duties, the commissioner
may:
(a) Share documents, materials, annual reports, reports of examination or other
information, including the confidential and privileged documents, materials,
reports, or information subject to subsections (4) and (5) of this section, with
other state, federal, and international regulatory agencies, and with local, state,
federal, and international law enforcement authorities, if the recipient agrees
to maintain the confidentiality and privileged status of the documents,
materials, reports, or other information;
(b) Receive documents, materials, reports, or other information, including
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otherwise confidential and privileged documents, materials, reports, or
information from regulatory and law enforcement officials of other foreign or
domestic jurisdictions, and shall maintain as confidential and privileged any
documents, materials, reports, or information received with notice or the
understanding that they are confidential and privileged under the laws of the
jurisdiction that is the source of the documents, materials, reports, or
information;
(c) Enter into agreements governing the sharing and use of information, including
the furtherance of any regulatory or legal action brought as part of the
recipient's official duties;
(d) Disclose to the public a list of persons licensed under this subtitle or the
aggregate financial data concerning those licensees; and
(e) Disclose to the public any order issued under this subtitle that is the result of
an administrative or legal action against a licensee, agent of a licensee,
responsible individual, key shareholder, executive officer, or director.
No waiver of any applicable privilege or claim of confidentiality in the documents,
materials, reports, or information shall occur as a result of disclosure to the
commissioner under this subsection or as a result of sharing as authorized in
subsection (6) of this section.
Effective: July 15, 2010
History: Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 809, effective July 15, 2010. -- Amended
2009 Ky. Acts ch. 98, sec. 19, effective January 1, 2010. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts
ch. 601, sec. 8, effective April 14, 1998. -- Created 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 213, sec. 9,
effective July 14, 1992; and ch. 341, sec. 9, effective July 14, 1992.
Formerly codified as KRS 368.090.
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/12/2006). In accordance with 2006 Ky. Acts
ch. 247, secs. 38 and 39, this statute has been renumbered as a section of the
Kentucky Financial Services Code, KRS Chapter 286, and KRS references within
this statute have been adjusted to conform with the 2006 renumbering of that code.
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