(1) Any public police department, sheriff’s office, or the Department of Kentucky State Police may, upon written agreement with a residential property owner or a residential property owners’ association, patrol the roadways and parking lots of private residential communities within the jurisdiction of the public police department, sheriff’s office, or the Department of Kentucky State Police and enforce the traffic and motor vehicle laws of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and local traffic and motor vehicle ordinances, on that residential private property.
(2) This section shall not permit a public police department, sheriff’s office, or the Department of Kentucky State Police to enforce the private rules or regulations of the residential property owner.

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 61.362

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Owner: when applied to any animal, means any person having a property interest in such animal. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010

(3) This section shall not limit any peace officer from coming on residential private property for the enforcement of the law, provided that the entry upon residential private property is consistent with the provisions of the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of Kentucky, the Kentucky Revised Statutes, and applicable court decisions.
Effective: June 26, 2007
History: Amended 2007 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 129, effective June 26, 2007. — Created
1998 Ky. Acts ch. 587, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1998.

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