KRS 18A.370: Definitions for KRS 18A.375 to 18A.385 -- Applicability of KRS 64.368 if

population decreases below 70,000.

For the purposes of KRS 18A.375 to 18A.385, the term "state employee" shall mean all

persons, including elected public officials, who are regular ly employed by the executive,

judicial, and legislative departments of government, except employees of the

Transportation Cabinet and the University of Kentucky who have their own self -

insurance fund. The term "state employee" shall also include volunteer firefighters and

volunteer ambulance personnel; persons who are regularly employed by the Fayette

County Health Department; and persons who are regularly employed by court clerks and

sheriffs of counties with a population of seventy thousand (70,000) or mo re. If a county's

population that equaled or exceeded seventy thousand (70,000) is less than seventy

thousand (70,000) after the most recent federal decennial census, then the provisions of

KRS 64.368 shall apply.