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Chapter 49 - Office of claims and appeals
49.420 Lump-sum payment to survivors of police officer killed in line of duty.

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49.420 Lump-sum payment to survivors of police officer killed in line of duty. (1) (2) The Crime Victims Compensation Board may award a lump-sum payment not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) to the family of a police officer employed by a city, county, or urban-county government who is killed in the line of duty as a police officer for such city, county, or urban-county and who is not eligible to receive death or disability benefits under a pension plan of the city, county, or urban-county. This section shall apply to any officer killed in the line of duty since January 1, 1986. Effective: June 29, 2021 History: Amended 2021 Ky. Acts ch. 185, sec. 49, effective June 29, 2021. -Repealed, reenacted, renumbered, and amended 2017 Ky. Acts ch. 74, sec. 43, effective June 29, 2017. -- Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 409, sec. 9, effective July 13, 1990. -- Created 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 324, sec. 1, effective April 14, 1986. Formerly codified as KRS 346.155.
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