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KRS 61.300

Nonelective peace officer or deputy -- Qualifications

Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case City of Ashland v. Ashland F.O.P. 3, Inc. (1994)

Most recently applied in Blevins v. Commonwealth (June 2014)

Effective: January 1, 2023 History: Amended 2022 Ky

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No person shall serve as a deputy sheriff, patrol or other nonelective peace officer, or deputy peace officer, unless:

(1) He or she is a citizen of the United States and is twenty-one (21) years of age or over;

(2) A sheriff may require his or her deputies to reside in the county in which they serve. Any deputy sheriff appointed pursuant to this section who has not been a resident of the county in which he or she serves for a period of at least two (2) years shall not be an active participant in any labor dispute and shall immediately forfeit his or her position if he violates this provision;

(3) He or she has never been convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude;

(4) He or she has not within a period of two (2) years hired himself or herself out, performed any service, or received any compensation from any private source for acting, as a privately paid detective, policeman, guard, peace officer, or otherwise as an active participant in any labor dispute, or conducted the business of a private detective agency or of any agency supplying private detectives, private policemen, or private guards, or advertised or solicited any such business in connection with any labor dispute; and (5) He or she has complied with the provisions of KRS 15.334.

Official source: Kentucky General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Kentucky statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.