KRS 154.20-025: Resident of bordering state may be considered qualified employee

during review of applications.

During the review of applications under Subchapter 12, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 32, or

34 of KRS Chapter 154, the secretary of the Cabinet f or Economic Development shall

have the authority to consider a resident of one (1) of Kentucky's seven (7) contiguous

bordering states as a qualified employee for a new, full -time position essential to an

approved economic development project, as long as t he development for the approved

project is no more than twenty -five (25) miles from the boundary line of the bordering

state.