KRS 171.830: Definitions for KRS 171.830 to 171.849.

As used in KRS 171.830 to 171.849, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) "Loan" means a deposit of property in a museum not accompanied by a transfer of

title to the property, whether or not such deposit is accompanied by an oral or

written agreement or other documentation;

(2) "Museum" means an institution located in Kentucky and operated by a nonprofit

corporation, the Commonwealth of Kentucky, a city, a county, an urban-county, or a

charter county, primarily for educational, scientific, aesthetic, h istoric, or

preservation purposes, and which owns, cares for, exhibits, studies, archives, or

catalogues property. Museums shall include, but not be limited to, traditional

museums, historical societies, historic sites or landmarks, parks, monuments, and

libraries;

(3) "Museum records" means documents created or held by a museum in its regular

course of business;

(4) "Property" means a tangible object, under a museum's care, which has intrinsic

historic, artistic, scientific, or cultural value; and

(5) "Tangible objects" shall include, but not be limited to, manuscripts, letters,

correspondence, writings, notes, ledgers, accounts, charts, maps, photographs,

drawings and similar renderings, and personal property, regardless of the medium in

which an object is held.