KRS 342.640: Coverage of employees.

The following shall constitute employees subject to the provisions of this chapter, except

as exempted under KRS 342.650:

(1) Every person, including a minor, whether lawfully or unlawfully employed, in the

service of an employer under any contract of hire or apprenticeship, express or

implied, and all helpers and assistants of employees, whether paid by the employer

or employee, if employed with the knowledge, actual or constructive, of the

employer;

(2) Every executive officer of a corporation;

(3) Every person in the service of the state or any of its political subdivisions or

agencies, or of any county, city of any class, school district, drainage district, tax

district, public or quasipublic corporation, or other political entity, under any

contract of hire, express or implied, and every official or officer of those entities,

whether elected or appointed, while performing his official duties shall be

considered an employee of the state. Every person who is a member of a volunteer

ambulance service, fire, or police department shall be deemed, for the purposes of

this chapter, to be in the employment of the political subdivision of the state where

the department is organized. Every person who is a regularly -enrolled volunteer

member or trainee of an emergen cy management agency, as established under KRS

Chapters 39A to 39E, shall be deemed, for the purposes of this chapter, to be in the

employment of this state. Every person who is a member of the Kentucky National

Guard, while the person is on state active d uty as defined in KRS 38.010(4), shall

be deemed, for the purposes of this chapter, to be in the employment of this state;

and

(4) Every person performing service in the course of the trade, business, profession, or

occupation of an employer at the time of the injury.