KRS 332.204: Application for school or instructor license -- Contents -- Qualifications

and fees -- Liability insurance.

(1) Any person seeking a license to operate, conduct, maintain, or establish a driver

training school shall apply to the department on forms pr epared and furnished by

the department. The notarized application shall include the following information:

(a) The title or name of the school, the names of the owners of the school and, if

the owner is to be a corporation, the names and addresses of the officers of the

corporation;

(b) Except for corporations, a statement that the owners of the driver training

school are each twenty -one (21) years of age or over, are residents of this

state, and have been for at least one (1) year next preceding the application for

the driver training school license, and are each of good moral character;

(c) A description of the established place of business together with the hours

during which the driver training school is conducted and a description of the

equipment and facilities used in driver training;

(d) Evidence of liability insurance coverage of the driver training school, the

instructor, and students of the driver training school while operating driver

training school equipment. The insurance shall have minimum lim its of not

less than twenty -five thousand dollars ($25,000) for bodily injury or death of

one (1) person in any one (1) accident and, subject to the limit for any one (1)

person, fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for bodily injury or death of two (2)

or more persons in any one (1) accident, and ten thousand dollars ($10,000)

for damage to the property of others in any one (1) accident. Evidence of

insurance coverage shall also provide that the insurance coverage shall not be

canceled except after ten (10) da ys prior notice in writing by the carrier to the

secretary. Upon request by an applicant, the department shall review an

application and provide a letter to the applicant that a proposed driver training

school has met all preliminary requirements for appro val, except the

provisions of this paragraph. The letter may be used by the applicant to help

secure the liability insurance coverage needed under this paragraph to obtain a

license to operate a school. A letter provided under this paragraph shall not be

construed as approval to perform driver's training or to operate a school.

(2) Each original application for a license to operate a driver training school and each

application for renewal of a license to operate a driver training school shall be

accompanied by the payment of a fee of three hundred dollars ($300) to the State

Treasurer.

(3) Any person seeking a license to act as a driver training instructor shall apply to the

department on forms prepared and furnished by the department setting forth that the

applicant is twenty -one (21) years of age or older; is of good moral character; is a

high school graduate or has the equivalent of a high school education, or has

equivalent experience; and holds a current and valid operator's license issued by the

Transportation Cabinet.

(4) Each original application for a license as a driver training instructor and each

application for renewal of a license as a driver training instructor shall be

accompanied by the payment of a fee of fifty dollars ($50) to the State Treasurer.