KRS 18A.370

For the purposes of KRS 18A.375 to 18A.385, the term "state employee" shall mean all persons, including elected public officials, who are regularly employed by the executive, judicial, and legislative departments of government, except employees of the Transportation Cabinet and the University of Kentucky who have their own self- insurance fund. The term "state employee" shall also include volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance personnel; persons who are regularly employed by the Fayette County Health Department; and persons who are regularly employed by court clerks and sheriffs of counties with a population of seventy thousand (70,000) or more. If a county's population that equaled or exceeded seventy thousand (70,000) is less than seventy thousand (70,000) after the most recent federal decennial census, then the provisions of KRS 64.368 shall apply.