KRS 49.470: Award constitutes debt owed to state -- Manner of payment.

(1) Any payment of benefits to or on behalf of a victim under KRS 49.270 to

49.490 creates a debt due and owing to the state by any person found to have

committed such criminal act in either a civil or criminal court proceeding in

which he is a party.

(2) The court when placing any convicted person, who owes a debt to the state as

a consequence of a criminal act, on probation and conditional discharge as

provided in KRS 533.020 may set as a condition of the probation or conditional

discharge the payment of the debt to the state. The court also may set the

schedule or amounts of payments to be made subject to modification based on

change of circumstances.

(3) The parole board shall also have the right to make payment of the debt to the

state a condition of parole under the provisions of KRS Chapter 439 subject to

modification based on change of circumstances.