As used in KRS § 260.850 to KRS § 260.869:
(1) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of the Kentucky Department of

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 260.850

  • Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Agriculture. See Kentucky Statutes 260.010
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.

Agriculture;
(2) “Cultivating” means planting, growing, and harvesting a plant or crop; (3) “Department” means the Kentucky Department of Agriculture;
(4) “Handling” means possessing or storing hemp for any period of time on premises owned, operated, or controlled by a person licensed to cultivate or process hemp. “Handling” also includes possessing or storing hemp in a vehicle for any period of time other than during its actual transport from the premises of a licensed person to cultivate or process hemp to the premises of another licensed person;
(5) “Hemp” or “industrial hemp”:
(a) Means the plant Cannabis sativa L. and any part of that plant, including the seeds thereof and all derivatives, extracts, cannabinoids, isomers, acids, salts, and salts of isomers, whether growing or not, with a delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration of not more than three-tenths of one percent (0.3%) on a dry weight basis; and
(b) Does not include medicinal cannabis as defined in KRS § 218B.010; (6) “Hemp products” or “industrial hemp products”:
(a) Means products derived from, or made by, processing hemp plants or plant parts; and
(b) Does not include medicinal cannabis products as defined in KRS § 218B.010;
(7) “Licensee” means an individual or business entity possessing a license issued by the department under the authority of this chapter to grow, handle, cultivate, process, or market hemp or hemp products;
(8) “Marketing” means promoting or selling a product within the Commonwealth, in another state, or outside of the United States. “Marketing” includes efforts to advertise and gather information about the needs or preferences of potential consumers or suppliers;
(9) “Processing” means converting an agricultural commodity into a marketable form;
and
(10) “University” means an accredited institution of higher education located in the
Commonwealth.
Effective: June 29, 2023
History: Amended 2023 Ky. Acts ch. 146, sec. 40, effective June 29, 2023. — Amended 2020 Ky. Acts ch. 1, sec. 3, effective February 10, 2020. — Amended 2019
Ky. Acts ch. 39, sec. 1, effective June 27, 2019. — Repealed and reenacted 2017 Ky. Acts ch. 45, sec. 1, effective March 20, 2017. — Amended 2013 Ky. Acts ch. 134, sec. 1, effective June 25, 2013. — Created 2001 Ky. Acts ch. 138, sec. 1, effective June 21, 2001.
Legislative Research Commission Note (3/20/2017). 2017 Ky. Acts ch. 45 replaced and restructured the industrial hemp program which was codified in 2001 as KRS
260.850 to 260.869. Section 1 of that Act (this statute) contains definitions for that range of statutes, and in the drafting of that section, “As used in KRS § 260.850 to
260.869:” concerning the application of the defined terms in that section was changed to read, “As used in Sections 1 to 13 of this Act:”. Sections 1 to 10 of that Act contained the restructured sections concerning the research program, and Sections 11, 12, and 13 amended or created statutes in other KRS chapters and repealed some statutes contained within the range of KRS § 260.850 to KRS § 260.869. It is clear from the context that retaining the original reference to “KRS § 260.850 to
260.869″ in this statute was necessary and proper, and the Reviser of Statutes has corrected this manifest clerical or typographical error under the authority of KRS
7.136(1)(h).