{"data":{"id":"us-ky/kre-501","jurisdiction":"us-ky","citation":"KRE 501","heading":"General rule","body":"Except as otherwise provided by Constitution or statute or by these or other rules\npromulgated by the Supreme Court of Kentucky, no person has a privilege to:\n(1) Refuse to be a witness;\n(2) Refuse to disclose any matter;\n(3) Refuse to produce any object or writing; or\n(4) Prevent another from being a witness or disclosing any matter or producing any\nobject or writing.","path":["KENTUCKY RULES OF EVIDENCE ----- Legislative Research Commission Note (7/1/92). Although denominated \"rules,\" the elements of the Kentucky Rules of Evidence were enacted as statutes by the Kentucky General Assembly. See 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 88; 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 324. Originally codified as KRS Chapter 422A in 1990, the Kentucky Rules of Evidence were renumbered by the Reviser of Statutes, effective July 1, 1992, pursuant to 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 324, sec. 34. By an order dated May 12, 1992, the Kentucky Supreme Court \"adopt[ed] so much of the Kentucky Rules of Evidence as enacted by HB 241 [1992 Ky. Acts ch. 324] as comes within the rule making power of the Court, pursuant to Ky. Const. sec. 116.\""],"source_url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=20375","current_through":"Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"09/05/2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T21:00:10Z","sha256":"cc15219c4fc8e828b6b66f837b9994f13b58d20112df669c4449ca1ec2016abb","source_id":"us-ky","stale":false,"prev":"us-ky/kre-412","next":"us-ky/kre-502"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}