KRS 11A.010: Definitions for chapter.

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) "Business" means any corporation, limited liability company, partnership, limited

partnership, sole proprietorship, firm, enterprise, franchise, association,

organization, self -employed in dividual, holding company, joint stock company,

receivership, trust, or any legal entity through which business is conducted, whether

or not for profit;

(2) "Commission" means the Executive Branch Ethics Commission;

(3) "Compensation" means any money, thin g of value, or economic benefit conferred

on, or received by, any person in return for services rendered, or to be rendered, by

himself or herself or another;

(4) "Family" means spouse and children, as well as a person who is related to a public

servant as any of the following, whether by blood or adoption: parent, brother,

sister, grandparent, grandchild, father -in-law, mother-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-

in-law, son -in-law, daughter -in-law, stepfather, stepmother, stepson, stepdaughter,

stepbrother, stepsister, half brother, half sister;

(5) "Gift" means a payment, loan, subscription, advance, deposit of money, services, or

anything of value, unless consideration of equal or greater value is received; "gift"

does not include gifts from family members, ca mpaign contributions, the waiver of

a registration fee for a presenter at a conference or training described in KRS

45A.097(5), or door prizes available to the public;

(6) "Income" means any money or thing of value received or to be received as a claim

on future services, whether in the form of a fee, salary, expense allowance,

forbearance, forgiveness, interest, dividend, royalty, rent, capital gain, or any other

form of compensation or any combination thereof;

(7) "Officer" means:

(a) All major management personnel in the executive branch of state government,

including the secretary of the cabinet, the Governor's chief executive officers,

cabinet secretaries, deputy cabinet secretaries, general counsels,

commissioners, deputy commissioners, executive direc tors, executive

assistants, policy advisors, special assistants, administrative coordinators,

executive advisors, staff assistants, and division directors;

(b) Members and full-time chief administrative officers of:

1. The Parole Board;

2. Office of Claims and Appeals;

3. Board of Tax Appeals;

4. Board of Claims;

5. Crime Victims Compensation Board;

6. Kentucky Retirement Systems board of trustees;

7. Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System board of trustees;

8. The Kentucky Public Employees Deferred Compensation Authority

board of trustees;

9. Public Service Commission;

10. Worker's Compensation Board and its administrative law judges;

11. The Kentucky Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission;

12. The Kentucky Board of Education;

13. The Council on Postsecondary Education;

14. County Employees Retirement System board of trustees;

15. Kentucky Public Pensions Authority; and

16. The Kentucky Horse Racing and Gaming Corporation;

(c) Salaried members of executive branch boards and commissions; and

(d) Any person who, through a personal service contract or any other contractual

employment arrangement with an agency, performs on a full -time,

nonseasonal basis a fun ction of any major management position listed in this

subsection;

(8) "Official duty" means any responsibility imposed on a public servant by virtue of

his or her position in the state service;

(9) "Public servant" means:

(a) The Governor;

(b) The Lieutenant Governor;

(c) The Secretary of State;

(d) The Attorney General;

(e) The Treasurer;

(f) The Commissioner of Agriculture;

(g) The Auditor of Public Accounts;

(h) All employees in the executive branch including officers as defined in

subsection (7) of this section and merit employees; and

(i) Any person who, through any contractual arrangement with an agency, is

employed to perform a function of a position within an executive branch

agency on a full-time, nonseasonal basis;

(10) "Agency" means every state office, cabinet, department, board, commission, public

corporation, or authority in the executive branch of state government. A public

servant is employed by the ag ency by which his or her appointing authority is

employed, unless his or her agency is attached to the appointing authority's agency

for administrative purposes only, or unless the agency's characteristics are of a

separate independent nature distinct from the appointing authority and it is

considered an agency on its own, such as an independent department;

(11) "Lobbyist" means any person employed as a legislative agent as defined in KRS

6.611(23) or any person employed as an executive agency lobbyist as d efined in

KRS 11A.201(9);

(12) "Lobbyist's principal" means the entity in whose behalf the lobbyist promotes,

opposes, or acts;

(13) "Candidate" means those persons who have officially filed candidacy papers or who

have been nominated by their political pa rty pursuant to KRS 118.105, 118.115,

118.325, or 118.760 for any of the offices enumerated in subsections (9)(a) to (g) of

this section;

(14) "Does business with" or "doing business with" means contracting, entering into an

agreement, leasing, or otherwis e exchanging services or goods with a state agency

in return for payment by the state, including accepting a grant, but not including

accepting a state entitlement fund disbursement;

(15) "Public agency" means any governmental entity;

(16) "Appointing authority" means the agency head or any person whom he or she has

authorized by law to act on behalf of the agency with respect to employee

appointments;

(17) "Represent" means to attend an agency proceeding, write a letter, or communicate

with an employee of an agency on behalf of someone else;

(18) "Directly involved" means to work on personally or to supervise someone who

works on personally;

(19) "Sporting event" means any professional or amateur sport, athletic game, contest,

event, or race involving machi nes, persons, or animals, for which admission tickets

are offered for sale and that is viewed by the public;

(20) "Person" means an individual, proprietorship, firm, partnership, limited partnership,

joint venture, joint stock company, syndicate, business or statutory trust, donative

trust, estate, company, corporation, limited liability company, association, club,

committee, organization, or group of persons acting in concert; and

(21) "Salaried" means receiving a fixed compensation or benefit reserved for full-time

employees, which is paid on a regular basis without regard to the actual number of

hours worked.