KRS 314.408: Prohibited activities.

(1) It shall be unlawful for any person to provide certified professional midwifery

services as defined in KRS 314.400 unless that person is a licensed certified

professional midwife currently issued a license by the board in accordance with

KRS 314.400 to 314 .414 or is an appropriate licensed health care provider

providing services that are within his or her scope of practice.

(2) It shall be unlawful for any person to hold herself or himself out as a licensed

certified professional midwife or other skilled bi rth attendant authorized to provide

prenatal care or manually assist in the delivery of an infant, or to provide the

services defined in KRS 314.400(2) in Kentucky unless he or she has been issued a

license by the board in accordance with KRS 314.400 to 314.414.

(3) It shall be unlawful for any person to operate or to offer to operate or to represent or

advertise the operation of a school or program of certified professional midwifery

unless the school or program has been approved by the board to do so.

(4) It shall be unlawful for any licensed certified professional midwife or employer of a

licensed certified professional midwife having knowledge of facts to refrain from

reporting to the board a licensed certified professional midwife who violates any

provision set forth in administrative regulation for licensed certified professional

midwives.

(5) It shall be unlawful for any person to provide certified professional midwifery

services who is listed on the nurse aide abuse registry with a substantiated findi ng

of abuse, neglect, or misappropriation of property.

(6) Nothing in KRS 314.400 to 314.414 shall prohibit a traditional birth attendant

providing midwifery services without a license if the traditional birth attendant has

cultural or religious traditions that have historically included the attendance of

traditional birth attendants at birth, and the birth attendant serves only women and

families in that distinct cultural or religious group.

(7) Nothing in KRS 314.400 to 314.414 shall prohibit an appropria te licensed health

care provider or other person from providing emergency care, including care of a

precipitous delivery.

(8) In accordance with KRS 311.723, a licensed certified professional midwife issued a

license by the board in accordance with KRS 314 .400 to 314.414 shall not perform

an abortion.

(9) Nothing in KRS 314.400 to 314.414 shall prohibit a person from providing self -

care, or uncompensated care to a friend or family member, as long as the person

does not hold himself or herself out to be a m idwife or provider of certified

professional midwifery services as defined under KRS 314.400.

(10) Nothing in KRS 314.400 to 314.414 shall prohibit an employee or other individual

who is assisting, and under the direct supervision of, a licensed certified

professional midwife from performing activities or functions that are delegated by

the licensed certified professional midwife and are within the licensed certified

professional midwife's scope of practice as authorized by the board.

(11) Nothing in KRS 31 4.400 to 314.414 shall prohibit an individual from performing

activities or functions that are delegated by the licensed certified professional

midwife if that individual is a student of midwifery in a training program operating

as authorized by the board, and is under the direct supervision of a qualified

preceptor as authorized by the board.