KRS 211.900: Definitions for KRS 211.900 to 211.905 and KRS 211.994.

As used in KRS 211.900 to 211.905 and KRS 211.994, unless the context otherwise

requires:

(1) "Cabinet" shall mean the Cabinet for Health and Family Services;

(2) "Secretary" shall mean the secretary for health and family services or his authorized

representative;

(3) "Lead-based hazard" shall mean levels contained in the federal Residential Lead -

based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992;

(4) "Dwelling" shall mean any structure or child-occupied facility, all or a part of which

is designed for human habitation;

(5) "Dwelling unit" shall mean any room or group of rooms or other interior areas of a

dwelling or child-occupied facility designed or used for human habitation;

(6) "Owner" shall mean any person who, alone, jointly, or severally with others, has

legal title to, charge, care, or control of any dwelling or dwelling unit as owner,

agent of the owner, or as executor, administrator, trustee, conservator, or guardian

of the estate of the owner;

(7) "At-risk persons" shall mean all children seventy -two (72) m onths of age and

younger and pregnant women who reside in dwellings or dwelling units which were

constructed and painted prior to 1978, or reside in geographic areas defined by the

cabinet as high risk, or possess one (1) or more risk factors identified in a lead

poisoning verbal risk assessment approved by the cabinet;

(8) "Outreach programs" shall mean those efforts to locate, screen, and diagnose for

elevated lead blood levels, those at -risk persons who are not utilizing existing

screening and diagnostic programs or those programs which may be established

after June 21, 1974;

(9) "Elevated blood lead level" means any blood lead level greater than or equal to ten

(10) micrograms per deciliter of whole blood or a level consistent with

recommendations by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the

American Academy of Pediatrics; and

(10) "Confirmed elevated blood lead level" means a first venous blood lead test or a

second capillary blood lead test taken within the time frames specified by the

cabinet where the blood lead test result is greater than or equal to fifteen (15)

micrograms per deciliter of whole blood.