KRS 61.300: Nonelective peace officer or deputy -- Qualifications.

No person shall serve as a deputy sheriff, patrol or other nonelective peace officer, or

deputy peace officer, unless:

(1) He or she is a citizen of the United States and is twenty -one (21) years of age or

over;

(2) A sheriff may require his or her deputies to reside in the county in which they serve.

Any deputy sheriff appointed pursuant to this section who has not been a resident of

the county in which he or she serves for a period of at least two (2) years shall not

be an active participant in any labor dispute and shall immediately forfeit his or her

position if he violates this provision;

(3) He or she has never been convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude;

(4) He or she has not within a period of two (2) years hired himself or herself out,

performed any service, or received any compensation from any private source for

acting, as a privately paid detective, policeman, guard, peace officer, or otherwise

as an active participant in any labor dispute, or conducted the business of a private

detective agency or of any agency supplying private detectives, private policemen,

or private guards, or advertised or solicited any such business in connection with

any labor dispute; and

(5) He or she has complied with the provisions of KRS 15.334.