KRS 304.39-030: Right to basic reparation benefits.

(1) If the accident causing injury occurs in this Commonwealth every person suffering

loss from injury arising out of maintenance or use of a motor vehicle has a right to

basic reparation benefits, unless he has rejected the limitation upon his tort rights as

provided in KRS 304.39-060(4).

(2) If the accident causing injury occurs outside this Commonwealth but within the

United States, its territories and possessions, or Canada, the following persons and

their survivors suffering loss from injury arising out of maintenance or use of a

motor vehicle have a right to basic reparation benefits:

(a) Basic reparation insureds;

(b) The driver and other occupants of a secured vehicle who have not rejected the

limitation upon their tort rights, other than:

1. A vehicle, except for a vehicle as provided in paragraph (c) of this

subsection, which is regularly used in the course of the business of

transporting persons or property and which is one (1) of five (5) or more

vehicles under common ownership; or

2. A vehicle owned by an obligated government other than this

Commonwealth, its political subdivisions, municipal corporations, or

public agencies; and

(c) The driver and other occupants of a bus, who have not rejected the limitation

upon their tort rights, are Kentucky resi dents, and boarded a bus in Kentucky,

if the bus is:

1. A secured vehicle;

2. Registered in Kentucky;

3. Regularly used in the course of the business of transporting persons or

property; and

4. One (1) of five (5) or more vehicles under common ownership.