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 04/30/2025
.010 Repealed, 1976.
.020 Repealed, 1972.
.021 Repealed, 1976.
.030 Repealed, 1976.
.040 Repealed, 1976.
.050 Repealed, 1976.
.055 Repealed, 1976.
.056 Repealed, 1976.
.060 Repealed, 1976.
.070 Repealed, 1976.
.080 Repealed, 1976.
.085 Repealed, 1960.
.090 Repealed, 1976.
.100 Repealed, 1976.
.110 Repealed, 1950.
.120 Repealed, 1976.
.130 Repealed, 1976.
.135 Repealed, 1976.
.140 Repealed, 1976.
.150 Repealed, 1976.
.151 Repealed, 1960.
.155 Repealed, 1954.
.160 Repealed, 1976.
.170 Repealed, 1950.
.180 Repealed, 1976.
.190 Repealed, 1976.
.200 Repealed, 1976.
.210 Repealed, 1976.
.220 Repealed, 1960.
.230 Repealed, 1976.
.240 Repealed, 1968.
.250 Repealed, 1950.
.260 Repealed, 1976.
.270 Repealed, 1950.
.280 Repealed, 1950.
.290 Repealed, 1950.
.300 Repealed, 1950.
.305 Repealed, 1976.
.310 Repealed, 1950.
.320 Repealed, 1950.
.345 Definitions.
.347 Judicial Retirement Plan -- Judicial retirement fund -- Established.
.350 Establishment of system membership.
.355 Repealed, 1978.
.357 Summary plan description -- Publication -- Recipients.
.360 Election to participate -- Delayed election.
.365 Repealed, 1978.
.370 Term of service to qualify if member began participating before January 1, 2014 -- Transfer of service credit to Judicial Retirement Plan -- Purchase of service credit for service as police judge and for military service -- Special provisions for active members.
.372 Limitations and exclusions on increases in final compensation for members retiring on or after January 1, 2018 -- Exception for bona fide promotion or career development -- Exclusion -- Determination by board -- Administrative regulations -- Inapplicability to hybrid cash balance plan participants.
.374 Election by member participating in the Legislators' Retirement Plan or the Judicial Retirement Plan on or after September 1, 2008, but before January 1, 2014 -- Participation in hybrid cash balance plan -- Private letter ruling -- Administrative regulations.
.375 Vesting through combined service credit.
.380 Normal retirement age.
.385 Payment of benefits while continuing in service -- Options for member who began participating before January 1, 2014 -- Multiple retirements by one person.
.390 Renumbered as KRS 21.345(1).
.400 Computation of retirement allowance for member who began participating before January 1, 2014 -- Benefit reduction for early retirement.
.402 Hybrid cash balance plan for certain members of Legislators' Retirement Plan and Judicial Retirement Plan -- Member contributions and employer pay credits -- Interest credits -- Termination of employment -- Options upon retirement -- Individual members' accounts established by board of Judicial Form Retirement System.
.405 Increase of retirement benefits.
.410 Disability retirement -- Computation.
.415 Disability retirement benefits.
.420 Death benefits for members -- Designation of beneficiary to receive accumulated contributions or accumulated account balance.
.425 Benefits to surviving or disabled children of members who began participating before January 1, 2014 -- Designation of beneficiaries.
.427 Health insurance and benefits for recipients -- Premium reimbursement plan -- Coordination with all state-administered retirement systems or plans.
.430 Repealed, 1980.
.440 Duties of investment committee -- Duties of board -- Actuarial valuations, investigations, and analyses -- Audit.
.450 Funding of benefits -- Trustee -- Duties of board members, investment manager or other fiduciary, or proxy advisor -- Accrual of benefits -- Standards of conduct.
.455 Repealed, 1980.
.460 Refund of contributions or account balance for members who began participating before January 1, 2014 -- Purchase of service credit -- Interest on deferred refunds -- Repayment.
.470 Exemption from taxation, execution -- Taxability after December 31, 1997.
.480 KRS 21.350 to 21.510 creates vested interest for members who began participating before January 1, 2014 -- Exception -- Amendment of benefits and rights.
.490 Repealed, 1980.
.500 Repealed, 1984.
.510 Appropriation -- Transfer of funds to judicial retirement fund.
.520 Repealed, 1984.
.525 Contributions by state -- Normal cost and actuarially accrued liability contributions -- Employer costs for hybrid cash balance plan.
.530 Coordination of Legislators' Retirement and Judicial Retirement Plans -- Board.
.540 Duties of board of trustees -- Qualified domestic relations orders -- Intent to conform with federal law -- Availability of information on website -- Conflicts of interest -- Prohibition against fees for unregulated placement agents -- Investment procurement policy -- Release of certain information from accounts of current or former legislators -- Proxy voting guidelines.
.550 Investments, judicial retirement fund.
.560 Investments -- Legislative retirement fund.
.565 Administration and assets of plan created under KRS 21.567.
.567 Kentucky Judicial Retirement Plan excess benefit plan -- Excess benefit fund.
.570 Nonseverability of provisions.
.580 Repealed, 2007, but expiration of program extended by court order until January 31, 2009.
.990 Repealed, 1968.