KRS 339.990: Penalties.

Anyone who employs or permits or suffers any minor to be employed or to work in

violation of KRS 339.210 to 339.450, or of any order or ruling issued under the

provisions thereof, or obstructs the Department of Workplace Standards, its officers, or

agents, or any other person authorized to inspect places of employment under KRS

339.210 to 339.450, or anyone who, having under his or her control or custody any minor,

permits or suffers him or her to be employed or to work in violation of KRS 339.210 to

339.450, or who sells to a minor any article with the knowledge that the minor intends to

sell the article in violation of KRS 339.210 to 339.450, shall be assessed a civil penalty,

in accordance with the provisions of KRS 336.985, of not less than one hundred d ollars

($100) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000). Every employer who continues to

employ a minor in violation of KRS 339.210 to 339.450 after he has been notified by the

Department of Workplace Standards, its officers or agents, shall be assessed a civil

penalty, in accordance with the provisions of KRS 336.985, of one hundred dollars

($100) for each day the violation continues and the employment of any minor in violation

of KRS 339.210 to 339.450 shall with respect to each minor so employed consti tute a

separate and distinct offense.