{"data":{"id":"us-ky/krs-610.180","jurisdiction":"us-ky","citation":"KRS 610.180","heading":"Financial penalty when child found delinquent.","body":"A parent or other person exercising custodial control or supervision of a child is charged\nwith the control of such child and shall have the power to exercise parental control and\nauthority over such child. In any case where a child is adjudicated a public  offender and\nplaced on probation, if the court finds at the hearing that the person having custody of\nsuch child has failed or neglected to subject him to reasonable parental control and\nauthority, and that such failure or neglect is the proximate cause o f the act or acts of the\nchild upon which the adjudication is based, the court may require such parent to enter into\na recognizance with sufficient surety, in an amount of not more than five hundred dollars\n($500), conditioned upon the faithful discharge o f the conditions of probation of such\nchild. If the child thereafter commits a second act and is by reason thereof adjudicated a\npublic offender, or violates the conditions of probation, and the court finds at the hearing\nthat the failure or neglect of suc h parent to subject him to reasonable parental control and\nauthority or to faithfully discharge the conditions of probation of such child on the part of\nsuch parent, is the proximate cause of the act of the child upon which such second finding\nis based, or  upon which such child is found to have violated the conditions of his\nprobation, the court may declare all or a part of the recognizance forfeited and the amount\nof such forfeited recognizance shall be applied in payment of any damages which may\nhave been  caused by such child, if there be such damages, otherwise, the proceeds\ntherefrom, or part remaining after the payment of damages as aforesaid, shall be retained\nby the court to apply to any future damages resulting from the act or acts of said child\nbefore he reaches his eighteenth birthday, at which date the remaining proceeds shall be\nreturned to the parent or guardian. The provisions of this section as it relates to failure or\nneglect of parents to subject a child to reasonable parental control and aut hority shall be\nin addition to and not in substitution for any other sections of KRS Chapters 600 to 645\nrelating to failure or neglect to exercise such parental control or authority. The provisions\nof this section shall not apply to foster parents.","path":["KRS Chapter 610"],"source_url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=20150","current_through":"Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"09/05/2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T21:00:07Z","sha256":"c4f64bccf501e3daefb725705666e7651d0c9ce9e4358851b461c3a59bc2a133","source_id":"us-ky","stale":false,"prev":"us-ky/krs-610.170","next":"us-ky/krs-610.190"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}