KRS 194A.505: Prohibited activities -- Commencement of proceedings for enforcement.

(1) No person shall, with intent to defraud, knowingly make a false statement or

misrepresentation or by other means fail to disclose a material fact used in

determining the person's qualification to receive benefits under any assistance

program.

(2) No person shall, with intent to defraud, fail to report a change in the factors

affecting the person's eligibility for benefits.

(3) No person shall, with intent to defraud, knowingly use, attempt to use, acquire,

transfer, forge, alter, traffic, counterfeit, or po ssess a medical identification card,

food stamp or food stamp identification card, or unique electronic authorization

codes or numbers or electronic personal identification numbers in any manner not

authorized by law.

(4) No person having responsibility fo r the administration of an assistance program

shall, having knowledge that it is in violation of the law, knowingly aid or abet any

person in obtaining benefits to which the person is not legally entitled, or in

obtaining a benefit amount greater than that to which the person is fully entitled.

(5) No person shall misappropriate or attempt to misappropriate a food stamp

authorization-to-purchase card, food stamp identification card, or Medicaid

identification card or misappropriate other benefits from any p rogram with which

the person has been assigned responsibility, nor shall the person knowingly fail to

report any of these activities when it is clearly in violation of the law.

(6) No person shall, with intent to defraud or deceive, devise a scheme or plan a

scheme or artifice to obtain benefits from any assistance program by means of false

or fraudulent representations or intentionally engage in conduct that advances the

scheme or artifice.

(7) No person shall aid and abet another individual in acts prohib ited in subsections (1)

to (6) of this section knowing it to be in violation of the law.

(8) The Attorney General on behalf of the Commonwealth of Kentucky may commence

proceedings to enforce this section, and the Attorney General shall in undertaking

these proceedings exercise all powers and perform all duties that a prosecuting

attorney would otherwise perform or exercise.