The commissioner may levy a civil penalty against a person that violates any provision of or administrative regulation promulgated under this subtitle or order issued by the commissioner under this subtitle. The civil penalty shall be not less than one thousand dollars ($1,000) nor more than five thousand dollars ($5,000) per day for each day the violation is outstanding, plus the state‘s costs and expenses for the examination, investigation, and prosecution of this matter, including reasonable attorney‘s fees and court costs.
Effective: July 15, 2010

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 286.11-047

  • Attorney: means attorney-at-law. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of the Department of Financial
    Institutions. See Kentucky Statutes 286.1-010
  • Person: means any individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, organization, joint venture, government and any subdivision, agency or instrumentality thereof, or any other legal or commercial
    entity. See Kentucky Statutes 286.11-003
  • State: means a state or commonwealth of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession that is subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Kentucky Statutes 286.11-003
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.

History: Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 852, effective July 15, 2010. — Created
2006 Ky. Acts ch. 247, sec. 24, effective April 24, 2006.
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/12/2006). This section was created in 2006
Ky. Acts ch. 247 as a new section of KRS Chapter 366A. Sec. 38 of that same bill also required that all sections of KRS Chapters 287, 288, 290, 291, 294, 366, 366A, and 368 be renumbered as sections of a single KRS chapter entitled the “Kentucky Financial Services Code.” Therefore, the Statute Reviser, acting under KRS § 7.136(1), has codified this section as a new section of KRS Chapter 286.