KRS 329A.070: Scope of KRS 329A.010 to 329A.090.

The provisions of KRS 329A.010 to 329A.090 do not apply to:

(1) An officer or employee of the United States, this state, another state, or any

political subdivision thereof, performing his or her official duties within the

course and scope of his or her employment;

(2) A public accountant, certified public accountant, or the bona fide employee of

either, performing duties within the scope of public accountancy;

(3) A person engaged exclusively in the business of obtaining and furnishing

information regarding the financial rating or standing and credit of persons;

(4) An attorney-at-law, or an attorney's bona fide employee, performing duties

within the scope of the practice of law or authorized agent with duties limited to

document and record retrieval or witness interviews;

(5) An insurance company, licensed insurance agent, staff or independent adjuster

if authorized to do business in Kentucky, or an individual employed by an

insurance company or licensed insurance agent to investigate suspected

fraudulent insurance claims, but who does not adjust losses or determine

claims payments, performing investigative duties limited to matters strictly

pertaining to an insurance transaction;

(6) A person engaged in compiling genealogical information, or otherwise tracing

lineage or ancestry, by primarily utilizing public records and historical

information or databases;

(7) A private business employee conducting investigations relating to the company

entity by which he or she is employed;

(8) An individual obtaining information or conducting investigations on his or her

own behalf;

(9) An employee of a private investigator or a private investigating firm who works

under the direction of the private investigator or the private investigating firm for

less than two hundred forty (240) hours per year. The board shall promulgate

administrative regulations to establish a method of verification of the number of

hours worked;

(10) A professional engineer, a professional land surveyor, or a professional

engineer's or professional land surveyor's bona fide employee, performing

duties within the scope of practice of engineering or land surveying; or

(11) A secured creditor, or person acting on behalf of a secured creditor, engaged

in the repossession of the creditor's collateral pursuant to KRS 355.9-609.