In this chapter:
(1) “Person” includes one (1) or more individuals, labor organizations, joint apprenticeship committees, partnerships, associations, corporations, legal representatives, mutual companies, joint-stock companies, trusts, unincorporated organizations, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy, fiduciaries, receivers, or other legal or commercial entity; the state, any of its political or civil subdivisions or agencies.

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 344.010

  • Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
  • branch budget: means an enactment by the General Assembly which provides appropriations and establishes fiscal policies and conditions for the biennial financial plan for the judicial branch, the legislative branch, and the executive branch, which shall include a separate budget bill for the Transportation Cabinet. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Company: may extend and be applied to any corporation, company, person, partnership, joint stock company, or association. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • 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
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • real estate: includes lands, tenements, and hereditaments and all rights thereto and interest therein, other than a chattel interest. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Treatment: when used in a criminal justice context, means targeted interventions
    that focus on criminal risk factors in order to reduce the likelihood of criminal behavior. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010

(2) “Commission” means the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights. (3) “Commissioner” means a member of the commission.
(4) “Disability” means, with respect to an individual:
(a) A physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one (1) or more of the major life activities of the individual;
(b) A record of such an impairment; or
(c) Being regarded as having such an impairment.
Persons with current or past controlled substances abuse or alcohol abuse problems and persons excluded from coverage by the Americans with Disabilities Act of
1990 (P.L. 101-336) shall be excluded from this section.
(5) “Discrimination” means any direct or indirect act or practice of exclusion, distinction, restriction, segregation, limitation, refusal, denial, or any other act or practice of differentiation or preference in the treatment of a person or persons, or the aiding, abetting, inciting, coercing, or compelling thereof made unlawful under this chapter.
(6) “Real property” includes buildings, structures, real estate, lands, tenements, leaseholds, cooperatives, condominiums, and hereditaments, corporeal and incorporeal, or any interest in the above.
(7) “Housing accommodations” includes improved and unimproved property and means any building, structure, lot or portion thereof, which is used or occupied, or is intended, arranged, or designed to be used or occupied as the home or residence of one (1) or more families, and any vacant land which is offered for sale or lease for the construction or location thereon of any such building or structure.
(8) “Real estate operator” means any individual or combination of individuals, labor organizations, joint apprenticeship committees, partnerships, associations, corporations, legal representatives, mutual companies, joint-stock companies, trusts, unincorporated organizations, trustees in bankruptcy, receivers, or other legal or commercial entity, the county, or any of its agencies, that is engaged in the business of selling, purchasing, exchanging, renting, or leasing real estate, or the improvements thereon, including options, or that derives income, in whole or in part, from the sale, purchase, exchange, rental, or lease of real estate; or an individual employed by or acting on behalf of any of these.
(9) “Real estate broker” or “real estate salesman” means any individual, whether licensed or not, who, on behalf of others, for a fee, commission, salary, or other valuable consideration, or who with the intention or expectation of receiving or collecting the same, lists, sells, purchases, exchanges, rents, or leases real estate, or
the improvements thereon, including options, or who negotiates or attempts to negotiate on behalf of others such an activity; or who advertises or holds himself out as engaged in these activities; or who negotiates or attempts to negotiate on behalf of others a loan secured by mortgage or other encumbrance upon a transfer of real estate, or who is engaged in the business of charging an advance fee or contracting for collection of a fee in connection with a contract whereby he undertakes to promote the sale, purchase, exchange, rental, or lease of real estate through its listing in a publication issued primarily for this purpose; or any person employed by or acting on behalf of any of these.
(10) “Financial institution” means bank, banking organization, mortgage company, insurance company, or other lender to whom application is made for financial assistance for the purchase, lease, acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, repair, maintenance, or improvement of real property, or an individual employed by or acting on behalf of any of these.
(11) “Licensing agency” means any public or private organization which has as one (1) of its duties the issuing of licenses or the setting of standards which an individual must hold or must meet as a condition to practicing a particular trade or profession or to obtaining certain employment within the state or as a condition to competing effectively with an individual who does hold a license or meet the standards.
(12) “Credit transaction” shall mean any open or closed end credit transaction whether in the nature of a loan, retail installment transaction, credit card issue or charge, or otherwise, and whether for personal or for business purposes, in which a service, finance, or interest charge is imposed, or which provides for repayment in scheduled payments, when such credit is extended in the course of the regular course of any trade or commerce, including but not limited to transactions by banks, savings and loan associations, or other financial lending institutions of whatever nature, stock brokers, or by a merchant or mercantile establishment which as part of its ordinary business permits or provides that payment for purchases of property or services therefrom may be deferred.
(13) “To rent” means to lease, to sublease, to let, or otherwise to grant for a consideration the right to occupy premises not owned by the occupant.
(14) “Family” includes a single individual.
(15) (a) “Familial status” means one (1) or more individuals who have not attained the age of eighteen (18) years and are domiciled with:
1. A parent or another person having legal custody of the individual or individuals; or
2. The designee of a parent or other person having custody, with the written permission of the parent or other person.
(b) The protection afforded against discrimination on the basis of familial status shall apply to any person who is pregnant or is in the process of securing legal custody of any individual who has not attained the age of eighteen (18) years.
(16) “Discriminatory housing practice” means an act that is unlawful under KRS
344.360, 344.367, 344.370, 344.380, or 344.680.
Effective: July 14, 1992
History: Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 282, sec. 1, effective July 14, 1992. — Amended
1980 Ky. Acts ch. 245, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1980. — Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 104, sec. 1. — Amended 1972 Ky. Acts ch. 255, sec. 1. — Amended 1968 Ky. Acts ch. 167, sec. 1. — Created 1966 Ky. Acts ch. 2, Art. 2, sec. 201.
2022-2024 Budget Reference. See State/Executive Branch Budget, 2022 Ky. Acts ch.
199, Pt. I, A, 8, (1) at 1638.