{"data":{"id":"us-ky/krs-13b.010","jurisdiction":"us-ky","citation":"KRS 13B.010","heading":"Definitions for chapter.","body":"As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise:\n(1) \"Administrative agency\" or \"agency\" means each state board, bureau, cabinet,\ncommission, department, authority, officer, or other entity in the executive branch\nof state government authorized by law to conduct administrative hearings;\n(2) \"Administrative hearing\" or \"hearing\" means any type of formal adjudicatory\nproceeding conducted by an agency as required or permitted by statute or regulation\nto adjudicate the legal rights, duties, privileges, or immunities of a named person;\n(3) \"Agency head\" means the individual or collegial body in an agency that is\nresponsible for entry of a final order;\n(4) \"Final order\" means the whole or part of the final disposition of an administrative\nhearing, w henever made effective by an agency head, whether affirmative,\nnegative, injunctive, declaratory, agreed, or imperative in form;\n(5) \"Hearing officer\" means the individual, duly qualified and employed pursuant to\nthis chapter, assigned by an agency head as  presiding officer for an administrative\nhearing or the presiding member of the agency head;\n(6) \"Office\" means the Office of Administrative Hearings in the Office of the Attorney\nGeneral created pursuant to KRS 15.111;\n(7) \"Party\" means:\n(a) The named per son whose legal rights, duties, privileges, or immunities are\nbeing adjudicated in the administrative hearing;\n(b) Any other person who is duly granted intervention in an administrative\nhearing; and\n(c) Any agency named as a party to the adjudicatory proceeding or entitled or\npermitted by the law being enforced to participate fully in the administrative\nhearing; and\n(8) \"Recommended order\" means the whole or part of a preliminary hearing report to\nan agency head for the disposition of an administrative hearing.","path":["KRS Chapter 13B"],"source_url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=54541","current_through":"Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"09/05/2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T20:48:31Z","sha256":"44192dec9b0f4d1eddf0c00385d4066caf87b58270b1b185140e215042eb7a29","source_id":"us-ky","stale":false,"prev":"us-ky/krs-13b.005","next":"us-ky/krs-13b.020"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}