{"data":{"id":"us-ky/krs-11a.990","jurisdiction":"us-ky","citation":"KRS 11A.990","heading":"Penalties -- Time limitation on prosecution for violation of KRS 11A.040.","body":"(1) Any person who violates KRS 11A.040 shall be guilty of a Class D felony. In\naddition:\n(a) The judgment of conviction for a violation of KRS 11A.040(2) shall recite\nthat the offender is disqualified to hold office thereafter; and\n(b) Any person who viol ates KRS 11A.040(1) to (5) shall be judged to have\nforfeited any employment, or constitutional or statutory office he holds,\nprovisions of KRS Chapter 18A to the contrary notwithstanding.\n(2) Any officer, public servant, or candidate required to file a sta tement of financial\ndisclosure under KRS 11A.050 who does not file the statement by a date specified\nin that section shall have his salary withheld from the first day of noncompliance\nuntil he shall have completed the action required by law. The amount withheld shall\nbe deducted from his overall pay and allowances and shall be recoverable upon the\nfiling of the statement of financial disclosure. The commission may grant a\nreasonable extension of time for filing a statement of financial disclosure for good\ncause shown.\n(3) Any person who maliciously files with the commission a false charge of misconduct\non the part of any public servant or other person shall be fined not to exceed five\nthousand dollars ($5,000), or imprisoned in a county jail for a term not t o exceed\none (1) year, or both.\n(4) Prosecution for violation of any provision of KRS 11A.040 shall not be commenced\nafter four (4) years have elapsed from the date of the violation. Any executive\nagency lobbyist, employer, or real party in interest who vi olates any provision in\nKRS 11A.206 shall for the first violation be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed\nfive thousand dollars ($5,000). For the second and each subsequent violation, he\nshall be guilty of a Class D felony.\n(5) Any executive agency lob byist, employer, or real party in interest who fails to file\nthe initial registration statement or updated registration statement required by KRS\n11A.211 or 11A.216, or who fails to remedy a deficiency in any filing in a timely\nmanner, may be fined by the commission an amount not to exceed one hundred\ndollars ($100) per day, up to a maximum total fine of one thousand dollars ($1,000).\n(6) Any executive agency lobbyist, employer, or real party in interest who intentionally\nfails to register, or who intentionally files an initial registration statement or updated\nregistration statement required by KRS 11A.211 or 11A.216 which he knows to\ncontain false information or to omit required information shall be guilty of a Class\nD felony.\n(7) An executive agency lobby ist, employer, or real party in interest who files a false\nstatement of expenditures or details of a financial transaction under KRS 11A.221\nor 11A.226 is liable in a civil action to any official or employee who sustains\ndamage as a result of the filing or publication of the statement.\n(8) Violation of KRS 11A.236 is a Class D felony.","path":["KRS Chapter 11A"],"source_url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=617","current_through":"Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"09/05/2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T20:48:28Z","sha256":"284595115e8eb2771b6a6974287e3f96f190a0d0f1564bdabea50eaf3af9465a","source_id":"us-ky","stale":false,"prev":"us-ky/krs-11a.246","next":"us-ky/krs-12.010"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}