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KRS 635.505: Definitions for chapter.

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  1. KRS Chapter 635

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) The "treatment program" means a continuum of services provided in community

and institutional settings designed to provide early intervention and treatment

services for juvenile sexual offenders.

(2) A "juvenile sexual offender" as used in this chapter means an individual who was at

the time of the commission of the offense under the age of eighteen (18) years who

is not actively psychotic or an individual with an intellectual disability an d who has

been adjudicated guilty of or has been convicted of or pled guilty to:

(a) A felony under KRS Chapter 510;

(b) Any other felony committed in conjunction with a misdemeanor described in

KRS Chapter 510;

(c) Any felony under KRS 506.010 when the cr ime attempted is a felony or

misdemeanor described in KRS Chapter 510;

(d) An offense under KRS 530.020;

(e) An offense under KRS 530.064(1)(a);

(f) An offense under KRS 531.310; or

(g) A misdemeanor offense under KRS Chapter 510.

(3) A "juvenile sexual of fender assessment" means an assessment of the child's

adolescent social development, medical history, educational history, legal history,

family history, substance abuse history, sexual history, treatment history, and recent

behaviors, which shall be prepa red in order to assist the courts in determining

whether the child should be declared a juvenile sexual offender, and to provide

information regarding the risk for reoffending and recommendations for treatment.

(4) "Individual with an intellectual disabili ty" as used in this section means a juvenile

with a full scale intelligent quotient of seventy (70) or below.

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