Kentucky Revised Statutes
Includes enactments through the 2025 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 05/31/2025
.010 Repealed, 1975.
.020 Repealed, 1975.
.030 Repealed, 1975.
.040 Repealed, 1975.
.045 Renumbered as KRS 438.310.
.047 Prohibition against certain billboard advertising of tobacco products within five hundred feet of school -- Fine.
.050 Use of alternative nicotine products, tobacco products, and vapor products on school premises -- Exception.
.060 Contaminating watercourse.
.065 Advertising or soliciting by practitioner of healing arts -- Exceptions.
.070 Repealed, 1972.
.080 Repealed, 1975.
.090 Repealed, 1975.
.100 Repealed, 1980.
.110 Repealed, 1980.
.120 Repealed, 1980.
.130 Repealed, 1980.
.140 Repealed, 1980.
.143 Repealed, 1980.
.145 Repealed, 1975.
.150 Repealed, 1975.
.160 Definitions for KRS 438.170, 438.180 and 438.190.
.170 Emergency party line use.
.180 False representation of emergency.
.190 Warning publication.
.200 Repealed, 1975.
.210 Interfering with communications.
.220 Transmission of false or fraudulent communications over telegraph or telephone lines -- Delay of messages.
.230 Use of obscene language or proposals on telephone -- Notice of law on telephone books.
.240 Abandonment or discard of refrigerator, freezer, icebox or ice chest with door or lid attached -- Exception.
.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.
.280 Definitions for KRS 438.280 to 438.290
.282 Provision of services of personal emergency response system provider -- Prohibited acts.
.284 New contracts for personal emergency response system services -- Components -- Existing contracts.
.286 Inapplicability of KRS 438.282 and 438.284.
.288 Concurrent jurisdiction for enforcement of KRS 438.280 to 438.290 -- Violation of KRS 367.170.
.290 Penalty for violation of KRS 438.282 or 438.284.
.300 Legislative intent. (Effective until June 27, 2025)
.300 Legislative intent. (Effective June 27, 2025)
.305 Definitions for KRS 438.305 to 438.350.
.3055 Division of Tobacco, Nicotine, and Vapor Product Licensing -- Duties -- Administrative regulations. (Effective January 1, 2026)
.306 Retailer to disclose to Secretary of State whether it sells authorized nicotine vapor products -- Secretary of State to maintain list of retailers.
.3061 Tobacco, nicotine, and vapor product license requirement -- Penalties. (Effective January 1, 2026)
.3063 Tobacco, nicotine, or vapor product license -- Application procedures -- Fees -- Renewal. (Effective January 1, 2026)
.3065 Transitional license. (Effective January 1, 2026)
.3067 License application approval and denial -- Revocation -- Appeals. (Effective January 1, 2026)
.3069 Basis for license revocation or suspension. (Effective January 1, 2026)
.307 Enforcement by Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control -- Online publication of list of retailers of authorized vapor products. (Effective until June 27, 2025)
.307 Repealed, 2025. (Effective June 27, 2025)
.3071 Inspection of premises without search warrant -- Confiscation of contraband property. (Effective January 1, 2026)
.308 Duties and responsibilities of manufacturers of nicotine vapor products.
.309 Duties and responsibilities of wholesalers of nicotine vapor products.
.310 Sale of tobacco products or alternative nicotine products to persons under age 21 prohibited -- Penalty. (Effective until June 27, 2025)
.310 Sale of tobacco products or alternative nicotine products to persons under age 21 prohibited -- Penalties. (Effective June 27, 2025)
.311 Unlawful acts by persons under 21 relating to purchase or receipt of tobacco product, alternative nicotine product, or vapor product -- Confiscation. (Effective until June 27, 2025)
.311 Unlawful acts by persons under age 21 relating to purchase or receipt of tobacco product, alternative nicotine product, or vapor product -- Confiscation. (Effective June 27, 2025)
.312 Prohibition on retailers distributing authorized nicotine vapor products to any person under age 21 -- Affirmative defense -- Penalties.
.313 Distribution of cigarettes, tobacco products, or alternative nicotine products to persons under age 21 prohibited -- Penalty -- Issuance of uniform citation. (Effective until January 1, 2026)
.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. (Effective January 1, 2026)
.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.
.316 Prohibition on sale of unauthorized nicotine vapor products -- Affirmative defense -- Penalties.
.317 Prohibitions against sale of or making available cigarettes packaged in units of fewer than twenty -- Penalties.
.320 Reports by wholesalers, nonresident wholesalers, and subjobbers.
.325 Notice to employee of prohibitions -- Penalty. (Effective until June 27, 2025)
.325 Notice to employee of prohibitions -- Penalty. (Effective June 27, 2025)
.330 Random inspections of retail establishment selling or distributing tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, or vapor products -- Preparation of federally required annual report. (Effective until June 27, 2025)
.330 Random inspections of retail establishment selling or distributing tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, or vapor products -- Preparation of federally required annual report. (Effective June 27, 2025)
.331 Enforcement by certified peace officers -- Citations. (Effective until June 27, 2025)
.331 Enforcement by certified peace officers -- Citations. (Effective June 27, 2025)
.335 Enforcement by Department of Agriculture -- Retention of percentage of per pack revenue and fines. (Effective until June 27, 2025)
.335 Enforcement by Department of Agriculture -- Retention of percentage of per pack revenue and fines. (Effective June 27, 2025)
.337 Responsibilities of Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control in enforcement of KRS 438.305 to 438.340 -- Disposition of revenue and fines collected under KRS 138.140 and KRS 438.305 to 438.340 -- Statistics -- Enforcement plan. (Effective until January 1, 2026)
.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. (Effective January 1, 2026)
.340 Authority for administrative regulations. (Effective until June 27, 2025)
.340 Authority for administrative regulations. (Effective June 27, 2025)
.343 Prohibition on sale of nitrous oxide -- Definition -- Exceptions -- Penalties. (Effective June 27, 2025)
.345 Renumbered as KRS 158.149.
.350 Prohibition against possession or use of tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, or vapor products by persons under 21 -- Exceptions. (Effective until June 27, 2025)
.350 Prohibition against possession or use of tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, or vapor products by persons under age 21 -- Exceptions -- Penalties. (Effective June 27, 2025)