As used in KRS § 141.410 to KRS § 141.414, unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) “Approved costs” means the costs incurred during the taxable year by a qualified farming operation for training and improving the skills of managers and employees involved in a networking project.

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 141.410

  • Individual: means a natural person. See Kentucky Statutes 141.010
  • Livestock: means cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, alpacas, llamas, buffaloes, or any other animals of the bovine, ovine, porcine, caprine, equine, or camelid species. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Taxable year: means the calendar year or fiscal year ending during such calendar year, upon the basis of which net income is computed, and in the case of a return made for a fractional part of a year under the provisions of this chapter or under administrative regulations prescribed by the commissioner, "taxable year" means the period for which the return is made. See Kentucky Statutes 141.010
  • Year: means calendar year. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010

(2) “Business network” means a formalized, collaborative mechanism organized by and operating among three (3) or more qualified farming operations, industrial entities, business enterprises, or private sector firms for the purposes of, but not limited to: pooling expertise; improving responses to changing technology or markets; lowering the risks to individual entities of accelerated modernization; encouraging new technology investments, new market development, and employee skills improvement; and developing a system of collective intelligence among participating entities.
(3) “Food producing facilities” means establishments that manufacture or process foods and beverages for human consumption, and which are included under the three (3) digit NAICS code three hundred eleven (311).
(4) “Networking project” means a project by which farmers and other entities involved in the production of food join together to form a network approved by the Cabinet for Economic Development for the purpose of producing or expanding the production of crops or livestock necessary for the establishment or expansion of secondary food-producing facilities in Kentucky.
(5) “Qualified farming operation” means an individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, joint venture, trust, unincorporated organization, association, corporation, or institution, engaged in farming in Kentucky that provides raw materials for food- producing facilities in Kentucky, and that purchases new buildings or equipment, or that incurs training expenses, to support its participation in a networking project.
(6) “NAICS code” means the classification system grouping business operations or enterprises as published in the North American Industry Classification System United States Manual published by Convergence Working Group and the United States Office of Management and Budget, 2002 edition.
(7) “Kentucky gross receipts” means Kentucky gross receipts as defined in KRS
141.0401.
(8) “Kentucky gross profits” means Kentucky gross profits as defined in KRS
141.0401.
Effective: June 28, 2006
History: Amended 2006 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 2, sec. 28, effective June 28,
2006. — Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch 252, Pt. XIII, sec. 11, effective April 25, 2006. – Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 168, sec. 29, effective March 18, 2005. — Created 1994
Ky. Acts ch. 390, sec. 16, effective July 15, 1994.
Legislative Research Commission Note (6/28/2006). 2006 (1st Extra Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 2, sec. 73, provides that “unless a provision of this Act specifically applies to an earlier tax year, the provisions of this Act shall apply to taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2007.”
Legislative Research Commission Note (3/18/2005). 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 168, sec. 165,
provides that this section shall apply to tax years beginning on or after January 1,
2005.