For the purposes of KRS § 18A.375 to KRS § 18A.385, the term “state employee” shall mean all persons, including elected public officials, who are regularly employed by the executive, judicial, and legislative departments of government, except employees of the Transportation Cabinet and the University of Kentucky who have their own self- insurance fund. The term “state employee” shall also include volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance personnel; persons who are regularly employed by the Fayette County Health Department; and persons who are regularly employed by court clerks and sheriffs of counties with a population of seventy thousand (70,000) or more. If a county’s population that equaled or exceeded seventy thousand (70,000) is less than seventy thousand (70,000) after the most recent federal decennial census, then the provisions of KRS § 64.368 shall apply.
Effective: July 15, 2002
History: Amended 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 71, sec. 9, effective July 15, 2002. — Amended
1992 Ky. Acts ch. 220, sec. 2, effective January 1, 1994. — Created 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 490, sec. 1, effective July 13, 1990.