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Kentucky · Snapshot 09/05/2026

KRS 227.990: Penalties.

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  1. KRS Chapter 227

(1) Except for manufactured homes manufactured under the federal act, any person who

violates any provision of this chapter or any provision of a lawful order, rule, or

regulation made under the provisions of this chapter, or who induces another to

violate any provisions of this chapter or of any lawful order, rule, or regulation

made thereunder, upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than twenty -five

dollars ($25) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or confined in the county

jail for not more than sixty (60) days, or both. Each day such violations exist shall,

in the discretion of the courts, be considered as a separate offense.

(2) Any person who, for manufactured homes manufactured under the federal act,

violates any provision of the federal act or of KRS 227.550 to 227.660 or any

regulation or final order issued thereunder shall be liable for a civil penalty not to

exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each such violation. Each violation of a

provision of KRS 227.550 to 227.660 or of the federal act or any regulation or order

issued thereunder shall constitute a separate violation with respect to each

manufactured home or mobile home or with respect to each failure or refusal to

allow or perform an act required thereby, except that the max imum civil penalty

may not exceed one million dollars ($1,000,000) for any related series of violations

occurring within one (1) year from the date of the first violation.

(3) Any individual, or a director, officer, or agent of a corporation who knowingly and

willfully violates the federal act or KRS 227.550 to 227.660 in a manner which

threatens the health or safety of any purchaser shall be fined not more than one

thousand dollars ($1,000) or imprisoned not more than one (1) year in the county

jail, or both.

(4) Any person violating the provisions of KRS 227.702 to 227.750, the regulations

issued thereunder, or any order issued thereunder, or who knowingly induces

another, directly or indirectly, to violate the provisions of those sections, shall be

fined not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or imprisoned in the county jail

for not more than thirty (30) days, or both.

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