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Kentucky · Snapshot 09/05/2026

KRS 118A.080: Denial of right to have name placed on ballot -- Restoration --

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  1. KRS Chapter 118A

Ineligibility of Senior Status Special Judge.

(1) No person who was a candidate for nomination for any office of the Court of Justice

in a primary and who, before the succeeding regular election, is declared by the final

judgment of any court of competent jurisdiction to have violated, in the primary,

any provision of KRS Chapter 121, or to be responsible for such violation by others,

shall have his or her name placed on the ballot for any office to be voted for in the

succeeding regular election. However, if such judgment is subsequently reversed

prior to the time of printing of the ballots, the candidate's name shall be restored on

the ballot.

(2) A judge who elected to retire as a Sen ior Status Special Judge in accordance with

KRS 21.580 shall not become a candidate or a nominee for any elected office

during the five (5) year term prescribed in KRS 21.580(1)(a)1., regardless of the

number of days served by the judge acting as a Senior Status Special Judge.

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