KRS 156.480: Employees of department or school districts with decision -making

authority prohibited from supplying goods or services for which school funds

are expended -- Penalties.

(1) No commissioner, associate commissioner, deputy commissioner, director,

manager, purchasing agent, or other employee of the Department of Education with

decision-making authority over the financial position of a school, school district, or

school system shall have any pecuniary interest in the school, school district, or

school syst em, either directly or indirectly, in an amount exceeding twenty -five

dollars ($25) per year, either at the time of or after his appointment to office, in

supplying any goods, services, property, merchandise, or services, except personal

services that are in addition to those required by contract for employment, of any

nature whatsoever for which school funds are expended. If any person specified in

this subsection receives, directly or indirectly, any gift, reward, or promise of

reward for his influence in recommending or procuring the use of any goods,

services, property, or merchandise of any kind whatsoever for which school funds

are expended, he shall upon conviction be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor

more than five hundred dollars ($500), a nd his office or appointment shall without

further action be vacant.

(2) No employee of any county or independent school district with decision -making

authority over the financial position of the school district shall have any pecuniary

interest, either di rectly or indirectly, in an amount exceeding twenty -five dollars

($25) per year, either at the time of or after his appointment to office, in supplying

any goods, services, property, merchandise, or services, except personal services

that are in addition t o those required by contract for employment, of any nature

whatsoever for which school funds are expended. If any person specified in this

subsection receives, directly or indirectly, any gift, reward, or promise of reward for

his influence in recommending or procuring the use of any goods, services,

property, or merchandise of any kind whatsoever for which school funds are

expended, he shall upon conviction be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor

more than five hundred dollars ($500), and his office or appointment shall without

further action be vacant.