Kentucky Revised Statutes
Includes enactments through the 2024 Regular Session
Chapter titles, centered headings, section catchlines, and explanatory notes are for informational purposes only and do not constitute any part of the law. For general laws governing construction of statutes, see KRS Chapter 446.
The KRS database was last updated on 11/21/2024
.010 Definitions for chapter.
.015 Construction of chapter -- Applicability.
.020 Board of Physicians and Advisors -- Membership -- Duties -- Reporting requirements.
.025 Registered and visiting qualified patients -- Designated caregivers -- Exemption from prosecution -- Limitations on amount of cannabis to be in possession. (Effective January 1, 2025)
.030 Seizure and forfeiture -- Probable cause -- Rebuttable presumption of lawful use.
.035 Criminal prosecution and disciplinary actions not precluded -- Driving under the influence. (Effective January 1, 2025)
.040 Employer not required to permit or accommodate use. (Effective January 1, 2025)
.045 Patient rights under state and local law -- Visitation and parenting time -- Medical care -- Schools -- Local board of education to establish policies. (Effective January 1, 2025)
.050 Written certification form -- Application process -- Renewals -- Bona fide practitioner-patient relationship -- Procedures -- Administrative regulations.
.055 Registry identification card required -- Written certification -- Visiting qualified patient -- Information required. (Effective January 1, 2025)
.060 Registry identification card program -- Required information.
.065 Cabinet action required on application -- Registration for patients under age eighteen -- Application denial -- Administrative hearings. (Effective January 1, 2025)
.070 Cardholder required notifications to cabinet -- Return of unused cannabis -- Expiration of protections. (Effective January 1, 2025)
.075 Revocation of registration identification card -- Penalties -- Notification to cardholder -- Administrative hearing -- Judicial review. (Effective January 1, 2025)
.080 License required -- License types -- Initial one-year term -- Renewal.
.085 Uniform application form -- Information required.
.090 Cabinet action on business license application -- Denial -- Procedures upon approval -- Administrative hearing and judicial review -- Licensed cannabis business subject to local government regulation.
.095 Requirements for licensed businesses -- Prohibited activities -- Recordkeeping -- Transporting cannabis on behalf of business -- Cultivation in enclosed, locked facility -- Persons under age eighteen.
.100 Cannabis businesses subject to reasonable inspection by the cabinet to evaluate compliance -- License suspension or revocation -- Notice required -- Administrative hearing and judicial review -- Permissible activities during suspension.
.105 Cultivator and cultivator agent -- Permissible actions -- Cultivator tiers and square feet limitations.
.110 Dispensary and dispensary agent -- Permissible actions -- Requirements -- Liability in civil actions for failure to comply.
.115 Processor and processor agent -- Permissible actions.
.120 Producer and producer agent -- Permissible actions.
.125 Safety compliance facility and safety compliance facility agent -- Permissible actions.
.130 Local government -- Ordinances regulating or prohibiting cannabis -- Establishment of local fees -- City within a county that prohibits cannabis may enact ordinance to approve -- Public question -- Procedures -- Local government to notify cabinet of decision to prohibit cannabis business.
.135 Cabinet to maintain confidential list of cardholders -- Exemptions from Open Records Act -- Certain information not exempt – Penalty.
.140 Electronic monitoring system required capabilities -- Administrative regulations -- Medicinal cannabis adverse drug effects reporting system -- Medicinal Cannabis Advisory Pamphlet.
.145 Kentucky Center for Cannabis to make notifications regarding qualifying medical condition to be added.
.150 No requirement for reimbursement of medicinal cannabis use.
.155 KRS 138.870 to 138.889 inapplicable to medicinal cannabis in compliance with this chapter.