KRS 281.765: Enforcement of motor vehicle laws -- Arrests -- Bail bonds.

Any peace officer, including sheriffs and their deputies, constables and their deputies

granted police powers, city police officers, county police or patrols, and special officers

appointed by any agency of the Commonwealth of Kentucky for the enforcement of its

laws relating to motor vehicles and boats or boating, now existing or hereafter enacted,

shall be authorized and it is hereby made the duty of each of them to enforce the

provisions of this chapter and to make arrests for any violation or violations thereof, and

for violations of any other law relating to motor vehicles and boating, without warrant if

the offense be committed in his or her presence, and with warrant or summon s if he or

she does not observe the commission of the offense. When in pursuit of any offender for

any offense committed within his or her jurisdiction, any such officer may follow and

effect an arrest beyond the limits of his or her jurisdiction. If the a rrest be made without

warrant, the accused may elect to be immediately taken before the nearest court having

jurisdiction, whereupon it shall be the duty of the officer to so take him or her. If the

accused elects not to be so taken, then it shall be the d uty of the officer to require of the

accused a bail -bond in a sum not less than one hundred dollars ($100), conditioned that

the accused binds himself or herself to appear in the court of jurisdiction at the time fixed

in the bond, not however in any case later than six (6) days from the day of arrest. In case

the arrested person fails to appear on the day fixed, the bond shall be forfeited in the

manner as is provided for the forfeiture of bonds in other cases. No officer shall be

permitted to take a cash bond. The officer making the arrest and taking the bond shall

report the same to the court having jurisdiction within eighteen (18) hours after taking

such bond.