{"data":{"id":"us-ky/krs-49.420","jurisdiction":"us-ky","citation":"KRS 49.420","heading":"Lump-sum payment to survivors of police officer killed in line of duty.","body":"(1) The Crime Victims Compensation Board may award a lump -sum payment not to\nexceed twenty -five thousand dollars ($25,000) to the family of a police officer\nemployed by a city, county, or urban-county government who is killed in the line of\nduty as a polic e officer for such city, county, or urban -county and who is not\neligible to receive death or disability benefits under a pension plan of the city,\ncounty, or urban-county.\n(2) This section shall apply to any officer killed in the line of duty since January  1,\n1986.","path":["KRS Chapter 49"],"source_url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=51487","current_through":"Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"09/05/2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T20:49:10Z","sha256":"318848ee6e6c60a831100d58ba1a1538c18a57a5f5f7f39bee565db59d901023","source_id":"us-ky","stale":false,"prev":"us-ky/krs-49.410","next":"us-ky/krs-49.430"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}