KRS 227.784: Nonapplicability of KRS 227.770 to 227.784 to cigarettes for sale outside

Kentucky -- Adoption of federal standards -- Local regulation preempted.

(1) Nothing in KRS 227.770 to 227.784 shall be construed to prohibit any person or

entity from manufacturing or selling cigarettes that do not meet the requirements of

KRS 227.772 if the cigarettes are or will be stamped for sale in another state or are

packaged for sale outside the United States and that person or entity has taken

reasonable steps to ensure that the cigarettes will not be sold or offered for sale to

persons located in this state.

(2) KRS 227.770 to 227.784 shall no longer apply if a federal reduced cigarette ignition

propensity standard is adopted and becomes effective.

(3) Notwithstanding a ny other provision of law, city, county, urban -county, charter

county, or consolidated local government units of this state shall neither enact nor

enforce any ordinance or other local law or regulation conflicting with, or

preempted by, any provision of K RS 227.770 to 227.784 or with any policy of this

state expressed by KRS 227.770 to 227.784, whether that policy be expressed by

inclusion of a provision in KRS 227.770 to 227.784 or by exclusion of that subject

from KRS 227.770 to 227.784.