KRS 15.605: Definitions.

As used in KRS 15.610 to 15.635 unless the context requires otherwise:

(1) "Inspection" means any regular, on-site investigation periodically conducted, or any

request for information periodically solicited in lieu of an on -site investigation, by

or on behalf of any public agency for the purpose of determining whether to award,

renew, alter, suspend or revoke a license, permit, accreditation or rating of a public

or private organization, or of any property employed by a public or private

organization in co nducting its business, in the Commonwealth. The term shall not

include inspections conducted by or on behalf of an urban -county department of

health or special investigations conducted by law enforcement officers or grand

juries, or, upon specific complain t, by public agencies with competent jurisdiction

of the subject matter of the complaint, or by members of legislative bodies.

(2) "Duplicative inspection" or "an inspection that duplicates" means one of two or

more inspections that are conducted at different times during the same calendar year

and that inquire into the same condition of the premises of, or business conducted

by, the same public or private organization.

(3) "Inspecting agency" means any agency of the state government or of a political

subdivision of the state, other than an urban -county department of health, that

conducts inspections within the Commonwealth.

(4) "Conflicting standard" or "a standard that conflicts" means one of two or more

standards relating to the quality of a public or private organization, or of the

business conducted by such organization, or of property used by such organization

in conducting its business, that are employed in the same inspection or in

duplicative inspections and which cannot be met simultaneously.