(1) The Crime Victims Compensation Board may award a lump-sum payment not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) to the family of a police officer employed by a city, county, or urban-county government who is killed in the line of duty as a police officer for such city, county, or urban-county and who is not eligible to receive death or disability benefits under a pension plan of the city, county, or urban-county.
(2) This section shall apply to any officer killed in the line of duty since January 1,
1986.
Effective: June 29, 2021
History: Amended 2021 Ky. Acts ch. 185, sec. 49, effective June 29, 2021. — Repealed, reenacted, renumbered, and amended 2017 Ky. Acts ch. 74, sec. 43, effective June 29, 2017. — Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 409, sec. 9, effective July 13,
1990. — Created 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 324, sec. 1, effective April 14, 1986.
Formerly codified as KRS § 346.155.