(1) The commissioner shall promulgate administrative regulations for the enlistment, training, code of ethics, discipline, and conduct of officers of the department and individuals employed as a Trooper R Class or CVE R Class, and the commissioner may promulgate administrative regulations for the governing and operation of the department as appear to him or her reasonably necessary to carry out the provisions of KRS § 16.010 to KRS § 16.170.
(2) The commissioner may require any officer, individual employed as a Trooper R Class or CVE R Class, or civilian who receives or disburses public funds in the course of his or her duties to file a bond, conditioned that he or she will honestly, correctly, and according to law, receive, disburse, and account for all public moneys coming into his or her hands. The commissioner, each officer, and each individual employed as a Trooper R Class or CVE R Class, shall execute a bond to the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the sum of not less than two thousand dollars ($2,000), conditioned upon the faithful discharge of his or her duties. The premium on the bonds shall be paid by the department. The commissioner, each officer of the department, and each individual employed as a Trooper R Class or CVE R Class shall, before entering upon the discharge of their official duties, take the constitutional oath of office.

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 16.080

  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • public funds: means sums actually received in cash or negotiable instruments from all sources unless otherwise described by any state agency, state- owned corporation, university, department, cabinet, fiduciary for the benefit of any form of state organization, authority, board, bureau, interstate compact, commission, committee, conference, council, office, or any other form of organization whether or not the money has ever been paid into the Treasury and whether or not the money is still in the Treasury if the money is controlled by any form of state organization, except for those funds the management of which is to be reported to the Legislative Research Commission pursuant to KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • real estate: includes lands, tenements, and hereditaments and all rights thereto and interest therein, other than a chattel interest. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010

(3) Subject to the provisions of KRS § 56.440 to KRS § 56.550, the commissioner, with the approval of the Governor and the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet, may acquire real estate or interests therein, by purchase, lease, or otherwise, necessary for the purposes of the department, and, with like approval, provide for the acquisition or construction of necessary buildings and other permanent structures and facilities. Title to any real estate acquired shall be taken in the name of the Commonwealth.
(4) Subject to the provisions of KRS § 16.583 and KRS § 16.584, the commissioner shall direct the department to reduce sick leave balances of officers subject to the provisions of KRS § 16.583 and KRS § 16.584 by the amount of sick leave credited to the hybrid cash balance plan for State Police Retirement System members under KRS § 16.583 and
16.584.
Effective: April 1, 2023
History: Amended 2022 Ky. Acts ch. 181, sec. 5, effective April 1, 2023. — Amended
2017 Ky. Acts ch. 186, sec. 4, effective April 11, 2017. — Amended 2013 Ky. Acts ch. 64, sec. 12, effective June 25, 2013. — Amended 2009 Ky. Acts ch. 59, sec. 6, effective June 25, 2009. — Amended 2007 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 62, effective June
26, 2007. — Amended 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 39, sec. 2. — Amended 1966 Ky. Acts ch.
255, sec. 14. — Amended 1952 Ky. Acts ch. 57, sec. 3. — Created 1948 Ky. Acts ch.
80, sec. 8.