KRS 605.080: Transportation of children.

(1) Any child ordered to be transported, by a committing or sentencing court, shall be

transported by the sheriff or the jailer of that county. Any other law enforcement

agency may enter into agreements with the court, sheriff, or jailer to transport

juveniles.

(2) Any peace officer who conveys a child from the committing court or from the

detention facility of the committing court to a residential treatment facility or other

facility operated by the Department of Juvenile Justice or the cabinet shall be

allowed an amount prescribed by regulation adopted by the Finance and

Administration Cabinet calculated by the nearest traveled route, and shall be paid

for all necessary expenses for feeding, lodging, and transporting the child. The

officer shall make out a full account of all expenses so incurred by him and give the

distance traveled. The account shall be verified by the officer upon oath before the

District Court and certified by the circuit clerk to the Department of Juvenile Justice

or the cabinet, as approp riate, for payment out of funds appropriated to the

Department of Juvenile Justice or the cabinet for this purpose. The child's presence

shall be necessary at a postdispositional proceeding only as required by court order

for good cause. Transportation shall be provided as in subsection (1) of this section

and expenses for transportation of a child to a proceeding from a residential

treatment facility or other facility operated by the Department of Juvenile Justice or

the cabinet shall be paid out of the State Treasury.

(3) No child shall be transported to any residential treatment facility or other facility,

pursuant to order of any court, unless accompanied by an attendant of the same

gender, unless that child, when authorized in writing by the court, the Department

of Juvenile Justice, or the cabinet, is transported by a parent, grandparent, or adult

brother or sister.

(4) The agent of any residential treatment facility or other facility which receives a

child transported to the facility shall report any v iolation of subsection (3) of this

section to the Commonwealth's attorney of the judicial circuit in which the facility

is located.

(5) The Department of Juvenile Justice or the cabinet may transport or pay the

necessary traveling expenses of children committed to it for care and treatment from

their homes to the residential treatment facility or other facility or home to which

they are committed, and the traveling expenses of such children from the facility or

home to their homes when discharged or placed on supervised placement.