KRS 446.010: Definitions for statutes generally.

As used in the statute laws of this state, unless the context requires otherwise:

(1) "Action" includes all proceedings in any court of this state;

(2) "Animal" includes every warm-blooded living creature except a human being;

(3) "Attorney" means attorney-at-law;

(4) "Bequeath" and "devise" mean the same thing;

(5) "Bequest" and "legacy" mean the same thing, and embrace either real or personal

estate, or both;

(6) "Business trust" includes, except when utilized in KRS Chapter 386, a "statutory

trust" as organized under KRS Chapter 386A;

(7) "Case plan" means an individualized accountability and behavior change strategy

for supervised individuals that:

(a) Targets and prioritizes the specific criminal risk factors of the individual

based upon his or her assessment results;

(b) Matches the type and intensity of supervision and treatment conditions to the

individual's level of risk, criminal risk factors, and individual characteristics,

such as gender, culture, motivational stage, developmental stage, and learning

style;

(c) Establishes a timetable for achieving specific behavioral goals, including a

schedule for payment of victim restitution, child support, and other financial

obligations; and

(d) Specifies positive and negative actions that will be taken in response to the

supervised individual's behaviors;

(8) "Certified mail" means any method of governmental, commercial, or electronic

delivery that allows a document or package to have proof of:

(a) Sending the document or package;

(b) The date the document or package was deliver ed or delivery was attempted;

and

(c) The signature of the receipt of the document or package;

(9) "Company" may extend and be applied to any corporation, company, person,

partnership, joint stock company, or association;

(10) "Corporation" may extend and be applied to any corporation, company, partnership,

joint stock company, or association;

(11) "Criminal risk factors" are characteristics and behaviors that, when addressed or

changed, affect a person's risk for committing crimes. The characteristics may

include but are not limited to the following risk and criminogenic need factors:

antisocial behavior; antisocial personality; criminal thinking; criminal associates;

dysfunctional family; low levels of employment or education; poor use of leisure

and recreation; and substance abuse;

(12) "Cruelty" as applied to animals includes every act or omission whereby

unjustifiable physical pain, suffering, or death is caused or permitted;

(13) "Directors," when applied to corporations, includes managers or trustees;

(14) "Domestic," when applied to a corporation, partnership, business trust, or limited

liability company, means all those incorporated or formed by authority of this state;

(15) "Domestic animal" means any animal converted to domestic habitat;

(16) "Evidence-based practices" means policies, procedures, programs, and practices

proven by scientific research to reliably produce reductions in recidivism when

implemented competently;

(17) "Federal" refers to the United States;

(18) "Foreign," when applied to a corporation, partnership, limited partnership, business

trust, statutory trust, or limited liability company, includes all those incorporated or

formed by authority of any other state;

(19) "Generally accepted accounting principles" are those uniform minim um standards

of and guidelines to financial accounting and reporting as adopted by the National

Council on Governmental Accounting, under the auspices of the Municipal Finance

Officers Association and by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, under the

auspices of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants;

(20) "Graduated sanction" means any of a wide range of accountability measures and

programs for supervised individuals, including but not limited to electronic

monitoring; drug and alcohol testing or monitoring; day or evening reporting

centers; restitution centers; reentry centers; disallowance of future earned

compliance credits; rehabilitative interventions such as substance abuse or mental

health treatment; reporting requirements to pro bation and parole officers;

community service or work crews; secure or unsecure residential treatment facilities

or halfway houses; and short-term or intermittent incarceration;

(21) "Humane society," "society," or "Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,"

means any nonprofit corporation, organized under the laws of this state and having

as its primary purpose the prevention of cruelty to animals;

(22) "Issue," as applied to the descent of real estate, includes all the lawful lineal

descendants of the ancestors;

(23) "Land" or "real estate" includes lands, tenements, and hereditaments and all rights

thereto and interest therein, other than a chattel interest;

(24) "Legatee" and "devisee" convey the same idea;

(25) "Livestock" means cattle, sheep, s wine, goats, horses, alpacas, llamas, buffaloes, or

any other animals of the bovine, ovine, porcine, caprine, equine, or camelid species;

(26) "May" is permissive;

(27) "Month" means calendar month;

(28) "Oath" includes "affirmation" in all cases in which an affirmation may be

substituted for an oath;

(29) "Owner" when applied to any animal, means any person having a property interest

in such animal;

(30) "Partnership" includes both general and limited partnerships;

(31) "Peace officer" includes sheriffs, constables granted police powers, coroners,

jailers, metropolitan and urban -county government correctional officers, marshals,

policemen, and other persons with similar authority to make arrests;

(32) "Penitentiary" includes all of the state penal institutions except the houses of

reform;

(33) "Person" may extend and be applied to bodies -politic and corporate, societies,

communities, the public generally, i ndividuals, partnerships, joint stock companies,

and limited liability companies;

(34) "Personal estate" includes chattels, real and other estate that passes to the personal

representative upon the owner dying intestate;

(35) "Pretrial risk assessment" means an objective, research-based, validated assessment

tool that measures a defendant's risk of flight and risk of anticipated criminal

conduct while on pretrial release pending adjudication;

(36) "Registered mail" means any governmental, commercial, or ele ctronic method of

delivery that allows a document or package to have:

(a) Its chain of custody recorded in a register to enable its location to be tracked;

(b) Insurance available to cover its loss; and

(c) The signature of the recipient of the document or package available to the

sender;

(37) "Regular election" means the election in even-numbered years at which members of

Congress are elected and the election in odd -numbered years at which state officers

are elected;

(38) "Risk and needs assessment" or "va lidated risk and needs assessment" means an

actuarial tool scientifically proven to determine a person's risk to reoffend and

criminal risk factors, that when properly addressed, can reduce that person's

likelihood of committing future criminal behavior;

(39) "Shall" is mandatory;

(40) "State" when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying

possessions, and the District of Columbia; "any other state" includes any state,

territory, outlying possession, the District of Columbia, and any foreign government

or country;

(41) "State funds" or "public funds" means sums actually received in cash or negotiable

instruments from all sources unless otherwise described by any state agency, state -

owned corporation, university, department, cabin et, fiduciary for the benefit of any

form of state organization, authority, board, bureau, interstate compact,

commission, committee, conference, council, office, or any other form of

organization whether or not the money has ever been paid into the Treasu ry and

whether or not the money is still in the Treasury if the money is controlled by any

form of state organization, except for those funds the management of which is to be

reported to the Legislative Research Commission pursuant to KRS 42.600, 42.605,

and 42.615;

(42) "Supervised individual" means an individual placed on probation by a court or

serving a period of parole or post-release supervision from prison or jail;

(43) "Sworn" includes "affirmed" in all cases in which an affirmation may be substitut ed

for an oath;

(44) "Treatment" when used in a criminal justice context, means targeted interventions

that focus on criminal risk factors in order to reduce the likelihood of criminal

behavior. Treatment options may include but shall not be limited to com munity-

based programs that are consistent with evidence -based practices; cognitive -

behavioral programs; faith -based programs; inpatient and outpatient substance

abuse or mental health programs; and other available prevention and intervention

programs that have been scientifically proven to produce reductions in recidivism

when implemented competently. "Treatment" does not include medical services;

(45) "United States" includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of

Columbia;

(46) "Vacancy in office," or any equivalent phrase, means such as exists when there is

an unexpired part of a term of office without a lawful incumbent therein, or when

the person elected or appointed to an office fails to qualify according to law, or

when there has been no election to fill the office at the time appointed by law; it

applies whether the vacancy is occasioned by death, resignation, removal from the

state, county or district, or otherwise;

(47) "Violate" includes failure to comply with;

(48) "Will" includes codicils; "last will" means last will and testament;

(49) "Year" means calendar year;

(50) "City" includes town;

(51) Appropriation-related terms are defined as follows:

(a) "Appropriation" means an authorization by the General Assembly to expend,

from public funds, a sum of money not in excess of the sum specified, for the

purposes specified in the authorization and under the procedure prescribed in

KRS Chapter 48;

(b) "Appropriation provision" means a section of any enactment by the General

Assembly which is not provided for by KRS Chapter 48 and which authorizes

the expenditure of public funds other than by a general appropriation bill;

(c) "General appropriation bill" means an enactment by the General Assembly

that authorizes the expenditure of public fu nds in a branch budget bill as

provided for in KRS Chapter 48;

(52) "Mediation" means a nonadversarial process in which a neutral third party

encourages and helps disputing parties reach a mutually acceptable agreement.

Recommendations by mediators are not binding on the parties unless the parties

enter into a settlement agreement incorporating the recommendations;

(53) "Biennium" means the two (2) year period commencing on July 1 in each even -

numbered year and ending on June 30 in the ensuing even-numbered year;

(54) "Branch budget bill" or "branch budget" means an enactme nt by the General

Assembly which provides appropriations and establishes fiscal policies and

conditions for the biennial financial plan for the judicial branch, the legislative

branch, and the executive branch, which shall include a separate budget bill fo r the

Transportation Cabinet;

(55) "AVIS" means the automated vehicle information system established and

maintained by the Transportation Cabinet to collect titling and registration

information on vehicles and boats and information on holders of motor vehi cle

operator's licenses and personal identification cards;

(56) "Cooperative," except in KRS Chapter 272, includes a limited cooperative

association; and

(57) "Unmanned aircraft system" means an aircraft that is operated without the

possibility of direct h uman interaction from within or on the aircraft and includes

everything that is on board or otherwise attached to the aircraft and all associated

elements, including communication links and the components that control the small

unmanned aircraft that are r equired for the safe and efficient operation of the

unmanned aircraft in the national airspace system.