Penalties
Applied in 49 court decisions — leading case Brown v. Commonwealth (1964)
Most recently applied in Carver v. Commonwealth (July 1982)
Effective: July 14, 1992 History: Amended 1992 Ky
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter, for which no other penalty is herein provided, shall, for the first offense, be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor; for the second offense, he shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor; for the third and each subsequent offense, he shall be guilty of a Class D felony.
(2) Any officer who violates subsection (2) of KRS 242.370 shall be guilty of a violation.
Official source: Kentucky General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Kentucky statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.