{"data":{"id":"us-ky/krs-18a.228","jurisdiction":"us-ky","citation":"KRS 18A.228","heading":"\"State employee\" defined.","body":"For purposes of KRS 18A.228 to 18A.2286, the term \"state employee\" shall mean a person, including an elected public official, who is regularly employed by any department, board, agency, or branch of state, municipal, urban-county, charter county, or county government, and who is a contributing member of any of the retirement systems administered by the state and including any federally -funded time -limited employee. It shall also include a person who must fulfill the requirements established by the State Board of Education for eligibility and a person who is a present or future recipient of a retirement allowance from any of the Kentucky Retirement Systems who either satisfies the requirements of KRS 61.559 or who is board -authorized under KRS 61.702(1), including a beneficiary of a retired employee as defined in KRS 61.542 who is receiving a retirement allowance from any of the Kentucky Retirement Systems and shall include a member of the Legislators' Retirement Plan as provided in KRS 18A.2287.","path":["KRS Chapter 18A"],"source_url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=1410","current_through":"Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"09/05/2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T20:48:40Z","sha256":"1bbe40870de7c25061841e225394c4ad240e950e21992be2c42f14361890906f","source_id":"us-ky","stale":false,"prev":"us-ky/krs-18a.2271","next":"us-ky/krs-18a.2281"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}