KRS 61.012: Qualification for appointive office or position as to compliance with

campaign finance laws.

No person shall be qualified to hold any appointive state office or position, made by

gubernatorial appointment, until the person provides the secretary of the Personnel

Cabinet with his sworn statement made under penalty of perjury that he has not

knowingly violated any provision of the campaign finance laws of the Commonwealth

and that his appointment to a state office or position will not violate any provisio n of the

campaign finance laws of the Commonwealth. "Knowingly" means, with respect to

conduct or to a circumstance described by a statute defining an offense, that a person is

aware or should have been aware that his conduct is of that nature or that the

circumstance exists.