KRS 120.360: Prohibition of agreement by candidate not to contest election.

It shall be unlawful for any candidate in any primary or general election to agree not to

file a suit contesting the election, or to agree to dismiss or cease prosecuting such suit

after it has been filed, in consideration of the payment or promise to pay to him, or to any

other person, of any money, deputyship, clerkship, employment, or anything of value by

such successful candidate or by any other person. Any person who violates this section

shall be ineligible thereafter to hold, or become a candidate fo r nomination or election to,

any public office in this state, or to have his name printed on any official ballot in a

primary or general election. Any qualified voter may maintain an action to enjoin the

printing of the name of a person upon the official b allots for any primary or general

election, on the ground that such person has violated this section, and in such action the

violation may be proved by parol evidence.