KRS 49.420: Lump-sum payment to survivors of police officer killed in line of duty.

(1) The Crime Victims Compensation Board may award a lump -sum payment not to

exceed twenty -five thousand dollars ($25,000) to the family of a police officer

employed by a city, county, or urban-county government who is killed in the line of

duty as a polic e officer for such city, county, or urban -county and who is not

eligible to receive death or disability benefits under a pension plan of the city,

county, or urban-county.

(2) This section shall apply to any officer killed in the line of duty since January 1,

1986.