KRS 365.350: Actions for violations or threatened violations -- Remedies -- Actual

damages need not be alleged or proved -- Costs.

(1) The department, or any person injured by any violation, or who may suffer injury

from any threatened violation of KRS 365.260 to 365.380, may maintain an action

in any court of equitable jurisdiction to prevent, restrain, or enjoin the violation or

threatened violation. If a violation or threatened violation of KRS 365.260 to

365.380 shall be established, the court shall enjoin and restrain, or otherwise

prohibit, the violations or threatened violation. In addition, the court shall assess in

favor of the plaintiff and against the defendant the cost of the suit, including

reasonable attorney's fees. It shall not be necessary that actu al damages to the

plaintiff be alleged or proved, but if alleged and proved, the plaintiff in the action,

in addition to injunctive relief, the costs of the suit, and reasonable attorney's fees,

shall be entitled to recover from the defendant the actual damages sustained by him.

(2) If no injunctive relief is sought or required, any person injured by a violation of

KRS 365.260 to 365.380 may maintain an action for damages and the costs of suit

in any court of general jurisdiction.