Kentucky Chapter 438 — Offenses Against Public Health and Safety
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- KRS 438.010— Repealed, 1975
- KRS 438.020— Repealed, 1975
- KRS 438.030— Repealed, 1975
- KRS 438.040— Repealed, 1975
- KRS 438.045— Renumbered as KRS 438.310
- KRS 438.047— Prohibition against certain billboard advertising of tobacco products within five hundred feet of school -- Fine
- KRS 438.050— Use of alternative nicotine products, tobacco products, and vapor products on school premises -- Exception
- KRS 438.060— Contaminating watercourse
- KRS 438.065— Advertising or soliciting by practitioner of healing arts -- Exceptions
- KRS 438.070— Repealed, 1972
- KRS 438.080— Repealed, 1975
- KRS 438.090— Repealed, 1975
- KRS 438.100— Repealed, 1980
- KRS 438.110— Repealed, 1980
- KRS 438.120— Repealed, 1980
- KRS 438.130— Repealed, 1980
- KRS 438.140— Repealed, 1980
- KRS 438.143— Repealed, 1980
- KRS 438.145— Repealed, 1975
- KRS 438.150— Repealed, 1975
- KRS 438.160— Definitions for KRS 438.170, 438.180 and 438.190
- KRS 438.170— Emergency party line use
- KRS 438.180— False representation of emergency
- KRS 438.190— Warning publication
- KRS 438.200— Repealed, 1975
- KRS 438.210— Interfering with communications
- KRS 438.220— Transmission of false or fraudulent communications over telegraph or telephone lines -- Delay of messages
- KRS 438.230— Use of obscene language or proposals on telephone -- Notice of law on telephone books
- KRS 438.240— Abandonment or discard of refrigerator, freezer, icebox or ice chest with door or lid attached -- Exception
- KRS 438.250— Mandatory testing for HIV, hepatitis B and C, tuberculosis, and other diseases for criminal defendants, inmates, and state patients under specified conditions -- Effect of refusal to be tested -- Costs
- KRS 438.280— Definitions for KRS 438.280 to 438.290
- KRS 438.282— Provision of services of personal emergency response system provider -- Prohibited acts
- KRS 438.284— New contracts for personal emergency response system services -- Components -- Existing contracts
- KRS 438.286— Inapplicability of KRS 438.282 and 438.284
- KRS 438.288— Concurrent jurisdiction for enforcement of KRS 438.280 to 438.290 -- Violation of KRS 367.170
- KRS 438.290— Penalty for violation of KRS 438.282 or 438.284
- KRS 438.300— Legislative intent
- KRS 438.305— Definitions for KRS 438.305 to 438.350
- KRS 438.306— Retailer to disclose to Secretary of State whether it sells authorized nicotine vapor products -- Secretary of State to maintain list of retailers
- KRS 438.307— Repealed, 2025
- KRS 438.308— Duties and responsibilities of manufacturers of nicotine vapor products
- KRS 438.309— Duties and responsibilities of wholesalers of nicotine vapor products
- KRS 438.310— Sale of tobacco products or alternative nicotine products to persons under age 21 prohibited -- Penalties
- KRS 438.311— Unlawful acts by persons under age 21 relating to purchase or receipt of tobacco product, alternative nicotine product, or vapor product -- Confiscation
- KRS 438.312— Prohibition on retailers distributing authorized nicotine vapor products to any person under age 21 -- Affirmative defense -- Penalties
- KRS 438.313— Distribution of cigarettes, tobacco products, or alternative nicotine products to persons under age 21 prohibited -- Distribution of alternative nicotine products, tobacco products, or vapor products to retailer with revoked license prohibited -- Penalty -- Issuance of uniform citation
- KRS 438.315— Sales of tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, or vapor products to or purchases by persons under age 21 from vending machine prohibited -- Location of vending machine -- Penalty -- Issuance of uniform citation
- KRS 438.316— Prohibition on sale of unauthorized nicotine vapor products -- Affirmative defense -- Penalties
- KRS 438.317— Prohibitions against sale of or making available cigarettes packaged in units of fewer than twenty -- Penalties
- KRS 438.320— Reports by wholesalers, nonresident wholesalers, and subjobbers
- KRS 438.325— Notice to employee of prohibitions -- Penalty
- KRS 438.330— Random inspections of retail establishment selling or distributing tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, or vapor products -- Preparation of federally required annual report
- KRS 438.331— Enforcement by certified peace officers -- Citations
- KRS 438.335— Enforcement by Department of Agriculture -- Retention of percentage of per pack revenue and fines
- KRS 438.337— Responsibilities of Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control in enforcement of KRS 438.305 to 438.350 -- Disposition of revenue and fines collected under KRS 138.140 and 438.305 to 438.350 -- Statistics -- Enforcement plan -- Publication of list of licensees
- KRS 438.340— Authority for administrative regulations
- KRS 438.343— Prohibition on sale of nitrous oxide -- Definition -- Exceptions -- Penalties
- KRS 438.345— Renumbered as KRS 158.149
- KRS 438.350— Prohibition against possession or use of tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, or vapor products by persons under age 21 -- Exceptions -- Penalties
- KRS 438.3055— Division of Tobacco, Nicotine, and Vapor Product Licensing -- Duties -- Administrative regulations
- KRS 438.3061— Tobacco, nicotine, and vapor product license requirement -- Penalties
- KRS 438.3063— Tobacco, nicotine, or vapor product license -- Application procedures -- Fees -- Renewal
- KRS 438.3065— Transitional license
- KRS 438.3067— License application approval and denial -- Revocation -- Appeals
- KRS 438.3069— Basis for license revocation or suspension
- KRS 438.3071— Inspection of premises without search warrant -- Confiscation of contraband property