KRS 503.110: Use of force by person with responsibility for care, discipline, or safety of

others.

(1) The use of physical force by a defendant upon another person is justifiable when the

defendant is a parent, guardian, or other person entrusted with the care and

supervision of a minor or an incompetent person or when the defendant is a teacher

or other person entrusted with the care and supervision of a minor, for a special

purpose, and:

(a) The defendant believes that the force used is necessary to promote the w elfare

of a minor or mentally disabled person or, if the defendant's responsibility for

the minor or mentally disabled person is for a special purpose, to further that

special purpose or maintain reasonable discipline in a school, class, or other

group; and

(b) The force that is used is not designed to cause or known to create a substantial

risk of causing death, serious physical injury, disfigurement, extreme pain, or

extreme mental distress.

(2) The use of physical force by a defendant upon another person is justifiable when the

defendant is a warden or other authorized official of a correctional institution, and:

(a) The defendant believes that the force used is necessary for the purpose of

enforcing the lawful rules of the institution;

(b) The degree of force used is not forbidden by any statute governing the

administration of the institution; and

(c) If deadly force is used, its use is otherwise justifiable under this code.

(3) The use of physical force by a defendant upon another person is justifiable when the

defendant is a person responsible for the operation of or the maintenance of order in

a vehicle or other carrier of passengers and the defendant believes that such force is

necessary to prevent interference with its operation or to maintain order i n the

vehicle or other carrier, except that deadly physical force may be used only when

the defendant believes it necessary to prevent death or serious physical injury.

(4) The use of physical force by a defendant upon another person is justifiable when the

defendant is a doctor or other therapist or a person assisting him at his direction,

and:

(a) The force is used for the purpose of administering a recognized form of

treatment which the defendant believes to be adapted to promoting the

physical or mental health of the patient; and

(b) The treatment is administered with the consent of the patient or, if the patient

is a minor or a mentally disabled person, with the consent of the parent,

guardian, or other person legally competent to consent in his behalf, or the

treatment is administered in an emergency when the defendant believes that

no one competent to consent can be consulted and that a reasonable person,

wishing to safeguard the welfare of the patient, would consent.