KRS 61.900: Definitions for KRS 61.902 to 61.930.

As used in KRS 61.902 to 61.930:

(1) "Commission" means a commission issued to an individual by the secretary of

justice and public safety, entitling the individual to perform special law enforcement

duties on public property;

(2) "Council" means the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council;

(3) "Cabinet" means the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet;

(4) "Public property" means property currently owned or used by any organizational

unit or agency of state, county, city, metropolitan government, or a combination of

these. The term shall include propert y currently owned or used by public airport

authorities;

(5) "Secretary" means the secretary of the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet;

(6) "Special law enforcement officer":

(a) Means one whose duties include the protection of specific public property

from intrusion, entry, larceny, vandalism, abuse, intermeddling, or trespass;

(b) Means one whose duties include the prevention, observation, or detection of,

or apprehension for, any unlawful activity on specific public property;

(c) Means one whose special d uties include the control of the operation, speed,

and parking of motor vehicles, bicycles, and other vehicles, and the movement

of pedestrian traffic on specific public property;

(d) Means one whose duties include the answering of any intrusion alarm on

specific public property;

(e) Shall include the Capitol police, the Capital Plaza police, school resource

officers as defined in KRS 158.441 who are employed directly by a local

board of education, public airport authority security officers, and the officer s

of the other public security forces established for the purpose of protecting

specific public property; and

(f) Shall not include members of a lawfully organized police unit or police force

of state, county, city, or metropolitan government, or a combina tion of these,

who are responsible for the detection of crime and the enforcement of the

general criminal law enforcement of the state; it shall not include any of the

following officials or officers:

1. Sheriffs, sworn deputy sheriffs, constables, sworn deputy constables,

and coroners;

2. Auxiliary and reserve police appointed under KRS 95.160 or 95.445, or

citation and safety officers authorized by KRS 83A.087 and 83A.088;

3. State park rangers and offic ers of the Division of Law Enforcement

within the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources;

4. Officers of the Transportation Cabinet responsible for law enforcement;

5. Officers of the Department of Corrections responsible for law

enforcement;

6. Fire marshals and deputy fire marshals;

7. Other officers not mentioned above who are employed directly by state

government and are responsible for law enforcement;

8. Federal peace officers;

9. Those campus security officers who are commissioned under KRS

164.950;

10. Private security guards, private security patrolmen, and investigators

licensed pursuant to state statute; and

11. Railroad policemen covered by KRS 277.270 and 277.280; and

(7) "Sworn public peace officer" means one who derives plenary or special l aw

enforcement powers from, and is a full -time employee of, the federal government,

the Commonwealth, or any political subdivision, agency, department, branch, or

service of either, or of any municipality.