KRS 7.136: Alterations permitted in maintaining official version of KRS.

(1) The Commission, in maintaining the official version of the Kentucky Revised

Statutes, shall not alter the sense, meaning, or effect of any act of the General

Assembly, but may:

(a) Renumber sections and parts of sections of the acts of the General Assembly;

(b) Change the wording of headnotes;

(c) Divide or rearrange sections and parts of sections;

(d) Change words when directed by law;

(e) Change reference numbers to agree with renumbered chapters or sections, or

to make corrections in reference numbers wh en sections referred to are

repealed or amended and the correction can be made without change in the

law;

(f) Substitute the proper section or chapter numbers for the terms "this act," "the

preceding section," and the like;

(g) Change capitalization, spelling, and punctuation for the purpose of uniformity

and consistency; and

(h) Correct manifest clerical or typographical errors.

(2) In maintaining the official version of the Kentucky Revised Statutes, the reviser of

statutes may substitute the name of any agency, officer, or instrumentality of the

Commonwealth or of a political subdivision whose name is changed by law or to

which powers, duties, and responsibilities have been transferred by law, for the

name which the agency, officer, or instrumentality pre viously used or of the agency

which was previously vested with the same powers and charged with the same

duties and responsibilities.

(3) If any section or part of a section of a statute or of any act of the General Assembly

is amended by more than one (1) act at the same session of the General Assembly,

the Commission may incorporate in the statute the section as amended or altered by

the several acts, if each of the amendments, changes, or alterations can be given

effect and incorporated in the section in a manner which will make the section

intelligible. If a conflict appears between any section amended in an act to revise

and amend the Kentucky Revised Statutes and the same section in any other act

adopted at the same session of the General Assembly, the change or alteration

effected by the nonrevisory act shall be inserted in the section as incorporated in the

statute publication.