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2021 Kentucky Revised Statutes
Chapter 56 - State lands and buildings
56.440 Definitions for chapter.

Universal Citation: KY Rev Stat § 56.440 (2021)
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56.440 Definitions for chapter. As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Commission" means the State Property and Buildings Commission; (2) "Real estate" includes lands together with improvements thereon and appurtenances thereto; (3) "Building" includes any structure or improvement upon real estate of a permanent nature and additionally includes any sites, structures, equipment, machinery, or devices for the purpose of establishing, developing, or furthering television or related services in aid of education or in aid of any other proper public functions, whether or not the same would otherwise be legally defined as buildings; but only (except for industrial development projects) if used or to be used by the Commonwealth of Kentucky or one (1) of its departments or agencies (not including independent municipal corporations or political subdivisions); (4) "Building project" includes the acquisition of any real estate and the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, and structural maintenance of buildings, the installation of utility services, including roads and sewers, and the purchase and installation of equipment, facilities, and furnishings of a permanent nature for buildings; the purchase and installation initially of movable equipment, furnishings, and appurtenances necessary to make a building operable; and for television or related purposes as referred to in subsection (3) of this section, for use by the state government or one (1) of its departments or agencies, not including any independent municipal corporation or political subdivision, or any other capital outlay program authorized by any branch budget bill or other legislation; (5) "Industrial development project" means and includes the acquisition of any real estate and the construction, acquisition, and installation thereon and with respect thereto of improvements and facilities necessary and useful for the improvement of such real estate for conveyance to or lease to industrial entities to be used for manufacturing, processing, or assembling purposes, including surveys, site tests and inspections, subsurface site work, excavation, removal of structures, roadways, cemeteries, and other surface obstructions, filling, grading and provision of drainage, storm water detention, installation of utilities such as water, sewer, sewage treatment, gas, electricity, communication, and other similar facilities, offsite construction of utility extensions to the boundaries of such real estate, construction and installation of buildings, including buildings to be used for worker training and education, rail facilities, roads, sidewalks, curbs, and other improvements to such real estate necessary to its manufacturing, processing, or assembling use by industrial entities; provided that an industrial entity must have agreed with the commission, prior to the financing of an industrial development project, to develop, in conjunction with such industrial development project, manufacturing, processing, or assembling facilities satisfactory to the commission; (6) "Industrial entity" means any corporation, partnership, person, or other legal entity, whether domestic or foreign, which will itself or through its subsidiaries and affiliates construct and develop a manufacturing, processing, or assembling facility on the site of an industrial development project financed pursuant to this chapter; (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) "Incremental taxes" means, for any fiscal year of the Commonwealth, that amount of money which is equal to all tax revenues received by the Commonwealth, as taxing entity, during such fiscal year in respect of an industrial development project and improvements and equipment thereon and the products thereof, and activities carried out by the occupants and users of such industrial development project, minus an amount equal to all tax revenues received by the Commonwealth, as taxing entity, in respect of the site of the industrial development project and the same type of taxable properties and activities during the fiscal year immediately preceding the fiscal year during which construction of the improvements undertaken by an industrial entity as a result of the financing of such industrial development project commenced. Incremental taxes shall include such tax revenues as state corporate income taxes, state income taxes paid by employees of manufacturing, processing, and assembling facilities developed on the site of an industrial development project, state property taxes, state corporation license taxes, and state sales and use taxes, but shall not include any taxes levied specifically for educational purposes; "State agency" means any state administrative body, agency, department, or division as defined in KRS 42.005, or any board, commission, institution, or division exercising any function of the state but which is not an independent municipal corporation or political subdivision; "Cabinet" means the Finance and Administration Cabinet; "Asbestos" means the asbestiform varieties of: chrysotile (serpentine); crocidolite (riebeckite); amosite (cummingtonite-grunerite); anthophyllite; tremolite; and actinolite; "Asbestos-containing material" means any material which contains more than one percent (1%) asbestos by weight; "Friable material" means any material applied onto ceilings, walls, structural members, piping, ductwork, or any other part of the building structure which, when dry, may be crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder by hand pressure; "Meeting" means all gatherings of every kind, including video teleconferences; "Video teleconference" means one (1) meeting, occurring in two (2) or more locations, where individuals can see and hear each other by means of video and audio equipment; "Writing" or "written" shall mean letters, words, or numbers, or their equivalent, set down by handwriting, typewriting, printing, photostating, photographing, magnetic impulse, mechanical or electronic recording, or other form of data compilation; "Branch budget" shall have the same meaning as in KRS 48.010; "Reverse auction" shall have the same meaning as in KRS 45A.070; "Headquarters" means the principal office where the principal executives of the entity are located and from which other personnel, branches, affiliates, offices, or entities are controlled; "Nonretail service and technology project" means and includes the acquisition of any real estate and the construction, acquisition, equipping, and installation thereon and with respect thereto of improvements and facilities necessary and useful for the improvement of that real estate for conveyance to or lease to nonretail service and technology entities to be used for call centers, centralized administrative or processing centers, telephone or Internet sales order or processing centers, distribution or fulfillment centers, data processing centers, research and development facilities, or other similar activities; and (20) "Nonretail service and technology entity" means any corporation, partnership, person, or other legal entity, whether domestic or foreign, which will itself or through its subsidiaries and affiliates operate call centers, centralized administrative or processing centers, telephone or Internet sales order or processing centers, distribution or fulfillment centers, data processing centers, and research and development facilities, or conduct other similar activities. Effective: July 14, 2018 History: Amended 2018 Ky. Acts ch. 199, sec. 1, effective July 14, 2018. -- Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 63, sec. 9, effective July 15, 2010. -- Amended 2009 Ky. Acts ch. 78, sec. 35, effective June 25, 2009. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 120, sec. 22, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 387, sec. 25, effective July 15, 1994. -- Repealed and reenacted 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 476, Pt. V, sec. 284, effective July 13, 1990. -- Amended 1988 Ky. Acts ch. 395, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1988. -Amended 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 350, sec. 2, effective April 8, 1986; and ch. 357, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1986. -- Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 447, sec. 10, effective January 1, 1984. -- Amended 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 205, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1976. -- Amended 1970 Ky. Acts ch. 204, sec. 8. -- Amended 1968 Ky. Acts ch. 199, sec. 1. -- Amended 1966 Ky. Acts ch. 255, sec. 58. -- Amended 1964 Ky. Acts ch. 7, sec. 1. -- Amended 1962 Ky. Acts ch. 15, sec. 1. -- Amended 1956 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 7, Art. XVI, sec. 1. -- Created 1949 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 11, sec. 1.
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