KRS 304.2-350: Testimony compelled -- Immunity from prosecution.

(1) If any person asks to be excused from attending or testifying or from producing any

books, papers, records, contracts, documents, or other evidence in connection with

any examination, hearing, or investigation being conducted by the commissioner,

his or her deputy or examiner, or in any proceeding or action before any court upon

a charge of violation of this code, on the ground that the testimony or evidence

required of the person may tend to incriminate the person or subject the person to a

penalty or forf eiture, and shall notwithstanding be directed to give testimony or

produce evidence, the person must, if so directed by the commissioner and the

Attorney General, nonetheless comply with the direction; but the person shall not

thereafter be prosecuted or s ubjected to any criminal penalty or forfeiture for or on

account of any transaction, matter, or thing concerning which the person may have

so testified or produced evidence, and no testimony so given or evidence produced

shall be received against the perso n upon any criminal action, investigation, or

proceeding; except, however, that no person so testifying shall be exempt from

prosecution or punishment for any perjury committed by the person in giving

testimony, and the testimony or evidence so given or pr oduced shall be admissible

against the person upon any criminal action, investigation, or proceeding concerning

perjury.

(2) Any individual may execute, acknowledge, and file in the department a statement

expressly waiving immunity or privilege in respect to any transaction, matter, or

thing specified in a statement, and thereupon the testimony of the individual or the

evidence in relation to the transaction, matter, or thing may be received or produced

before any judge, court, tribunal, grand jury, or othe rwise, and if so received or

produced the individual shall not be entitled to any immunity or privileges on

account of any testimony he or she may so give or evidence so produced.