§ 18A.005 Definitions for chapter
§ 18A.010 General purpose of KRS 18A.005 to 18A.200 — Total number of employees limited
§ 18A.015 Creation of Personnel Cabinet — Provision for administrative costs
§ 18A.020 Records of Personnel Cabinet subject to open records law — Employee access to personnel files
§ 18A.025 Appointment of secretary of Personnel Cabinet — Responsibilities — Organization and duties of cabinet
§ 18A.030 Duties of secretary
§ 18A.032 Applicants to and eligibles for the classified service — Examination — Placement on and removal from registers — Certification for employment
§ 18A.035 Delegation of secretary’s powers — Assistance in testing — Membership on Kentucky Employees Retirement System board
§ 18A.037 New system of job classification and compensation
§ 18A.040 Compliance with federal standards
§ 18A.043 Administrative regulations to implement Federal Drug-Free Workplace Act
§ 18A.045 Creation of Personnel Board — Membership — Prohibited Acts
§ 18A.050 Personnel Board — Grandfather clause — Composition — Terms — Automatic termination
§ 18A.0551 Personnel Board elections — Procedures — Administrative regulations
§ 18A.060 Vacancies of elected board members to be filled by board
§ 18A.065 Oaths, testimony, and production of records
§ 18A.070 Personnel board — Organization — Meeting notices required — Records to be public
§ 18A.075 Duties of Personnel Board
§ 18A.0751 Personnel Board — Regulatory authority
§ 18A.080 Personnel Board — Compensation — Attendance
§ 18A.085 Removal of board members by Governor — Appeal
§ 18A.090 Personnel Board to hire full-time staff — General counsel may be designated assistant attorney general
§ 18A.095 Rights of executive branch employees
§ 18A.100 Appeal of final order of the Personnel Board
§ 18A.105 Compensation, retirement system contributions of employee ordered reinstated without loss of pay
§ 18A.110 Personnel secretary — Regulatory authority — Resolution of conflicting provisions of law
§ 18A.111 Probationary periods for classified service — Initial and promotional
§ 18A.113 Layoff, furlough, and reduction-in-hours rules — Notice — Reemployment — Administrative regulations
§ 18A.115 Employment exempted from classified service — Reversion rights of career employees promoted outside classified service — Transfer of employees to Kentucky Community and Technical College System — Change of personnel system for employees of Depart
§ 18A.120 Basis for hiring for classified service — Exception — Credit for sick leave
§ 18A.125 Control through payroll certification
§ 18A.130 Reemployment of career employee terminated on or after January 1, 1980
§ 18A.135 Reemployment of career employees
§ 18A.138 Affirmative action plan for state government
§ 18A.140 Prohibition against discrimination and political activities
§ 18A.145 Other acts prohibited
§ 18A.146 Felony conviction grounds for disciplinary action
§ 18A.150 Interview preference for current service members, honorably or generally discharged former service members, and members’ spouses, surviving spouses, and dependent parents — Required interviews
§ 18A.155 Rules for unclassified employees
§ 18A.160 Use of public buildings, property, and facilities
§ 18A.165 Administration of KRS 18A.005 to 18A.200
§ 18A.170 Certification of division directors who do not make policy
§ 18A.175 Evaluation of duties of division directors or heads — Procedure when duties have become policy making
§ 18A.180 Extension of system to other governmental units
§ 18A.185 Service as elected official deemed full-time employment for specified purpose
§ 18A.190 Holidays for state personnel — Military spouses to receive paid deployment and return days off
§ 18A.194 Living Organ Donor Leave Program
§ 18A.195 Compensatory time — Payment upon leaving state service
§ 18A.196 Definitions for KRS 18A.197
§ 18A.197 Sick-leave sharing program
§ 18A.200 Per diem salaries for state officers or employees serving on boards or commissions prohibited during regular working hours — Reimbursement of expenses authorized
§ 18A.201 Transportation Engineering Assistant I experience requirements
§ 18A.202 Work-related incentive programs for state employees
§ 18A.203 Annual-leave sharing program
§ 18A.204 Waiver of educational requirement in Highway Equipment Operator series for employees hired before July 1, 1999
§ 18A.205 Life insurance for public employees and certain retirees — Definitions
§ 18A.210 Payment of premiums
§ 18A.215 Provisions authorized
§ 18A.220 Authority of secretary
§ 18A.225 Health care insurance coverage — Requirements of prospective carriers — Analysis of carrier coverage data — Agency’s termination of participation — Provision of amount of employer contribution — Lapse of excess flexible spending account funds –
§ 18A.225 v2 Health care insurance coverage — Requirements of prospective carriers — Analysis of carrier coverage data — Agency’s termination of participation — Provision of amount of employer contribution — Lapse of excess flexible spending account funds –
§ 18A.2251 State employee health care plan buy-in. (Expired July 14, 1995)
§ 18A.2253 Self-insurance for area development district employees
§ 18A.2254 Self-insured plan for public employees — Contract for third-party administrator — Formulary change — Health reimbursement account, health flexible spending account, or health savings account — Public employee health insurance trust fund — Annua
§ 18A.2255 Health benefit plans and other information to be submitted to Advisory Committee of State Health Insurers — Approval or recommendations for changes — Committee to advise on options, bids, administration, and drug formulary — Written report or tes
§ 18A.2256 TRICARE supplement insurance for public employees
§ 18A.2258 Pharmacy and health care benefit claims monitoring — Contract provisions — Requirements — Administrative regulations
§ 18A.2259 Mail-order drug option for maintenance drugs
§ 18A.226 Group Health Insurance Board — Members — Duties
§ 18A.227 Flexible benefits plan for employees and retirees
§ 18A.2271 Unused funds in flexible spending accounts may be carried forward to next plan year
§ 18A.228 “State employee” defined
§ 18A.2286 Continuation coverage for member retired for disability
§ 18A.2287 Availability of state health insurance plan coverage for certain former legislators
§ 18A.230 Definitions
§ 18A.235 System established — Corporate powers
§ 18A.240 Trust fund
§ 18A.245 Board of trustees — Membership, terms, meetings — Powers — Executive director — Annual financial report
§ 18A.250 Deferred compensation system — Automatic enrollment of employees hired after July 1, 2019 — Automatic enrollment of justices, judges, and members of the General Assembly elected or appointed after July 1, 2021
§ 18A.252 Inviolability of employee deferred compensation contributions to trust fund
§ 18A.255 Investments — Limitation of liability
§ 18A.260 Regulations of investments
§ 18A.262 Conflicts of interest for Kentucky Public Employees Deferred Compensation Authority employees and trustees
§ 18A.265 Deferred compensation program to be in addition to retirement or benefit programs — Coordination of programs
§ 18A.270 Local programs
§ 18A.275 Custodian of funds
§ 18A.350 Definition of employee
§ 18A.355 Formula for increasing base salary or wages of state employees — Percentage of annual increment may be reduced
§ 18A.370 Definitions for KRS 18A.375 to 18A.385 — Applicability of KRS 64.368 if population decreases below 70,000
§ 18A.375 State employee workers’ compensation fund
§ 18A.380 Administrative regulations
§ 18A.385 Actuarial analysis of fund
§ 18A.990 Penalties

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes > Chapter 18A - State Personnel

  • Action: includes all proceedings in any court of this state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Affiliate: means any person who directly or indirectly through one (1) or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with another person. See Kentucky Statutes 286.8-010
  • Affiliate: means a person who directly or indirectly through one (1) or more intermediaries controls or is controlled by, or is under common control with, a licensee. See Kentucky Statutes 286.9-010
  • Agent: means a person authorized by written agreement and designated by the licensee to act on behalf of a licensee under the provisions of this subtitle. See Kentucky Statutes 286.11-003
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • any other state: includes any state, territory, outlying possession, the District of Columbia, and any foreign government or country. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Applicant: means a person filing an application or renewal application for a license under this subtitle. See Kentucky Statutes 286.11-003
  • Appointing authority: means the agency head or any person whom he or she has authorized by law to designate to act on behalf of the agency with respect to employee appointments, position establishments, payroll documents, register requests, waiver requests, requests for certification, or other position actions. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Appropriation: means an authorization by the General Assembly to expend, from public funds, a sum of money not in excess of the sum specified, for the purposes specified in the authorization and under the procedure prescribed in KRS Chapter 48. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Attorney: means attorney-at-law. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • 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.
  • Base salary or wages: means the compensation to which an employee is entitled under the salary schedules adopted pursuant to the provisions of KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • Board: means the Personnel Board created by KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Borrower: means any person that seeks, applies for, or obtains a mortgage loan. See Kentucky Statutes 286.8-010
  • 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
  • Business trust: includes , except when utilized in KRS Chapter 386, a "statutory trust" as organized under KRS Chapter 386A. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Cabinet: means the Personnel Cabinet provided for in KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Career employee: means a state employee with sixteen (16) or more years of permanent full-time state service, or the part-time employment equivalent of at least sixteen (16) years of full-time state service. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Cashing: means providing currency for a payment instrument. See Kentucky Statutes 286.9-010
  • Certified mail: means any method of governmental, commercial, or electronic delivery that allows a document or package to have proof of:
    (a) Sending the document or package. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Check: means any check, draft, money order, personal money order, travelers' check, or other demand instrument for the transmission or payment of money. See Kentucky Statutes 286.9-010
  • Check cashing license: means a license issued pursuant to this subtitle by the commissioner to conduct the business of cashing checks in this Commonwealth. See Kentucky Statutes 286.9-010
  • City: includes town. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Class: means a group of positions sufficiently similar as to duties performed, scope of discretion and responsibility, minimum requirements of training, experience, or skill, and such other characteristics that the same title, the same tests of fitness, and the same schedule of compensation have been or may be applied to each position in the group. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Classified employee: means an employee appointed to a position in the classified service under this chapter whose appointment and employment are subject to the classified service provisions of this chapter and the administrative regulations promulgated under this chapter. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • classified position: is a position in the classified service. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Classified service: includes all the employment subject to the terms of this chapter except for those positions expressly cited in KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Classroom: means a physical classroom environment in which teachers and participants are physically present for the teaching of a course. See Kentucky Statutes 286.8-010
  • clerical or support duties: means administrative functions such as gathering information, requesting information, word processing, sending correspondence, or assembling files, and may include:
    1. See Kentucky Statutes 286.8-010
  • close: means that one (1) of the following has occurred in connection with a deferred deposit service transaction concerning the customer's payment instrument:
    (a) The payment instrument is redeemed by the customer by payment to the licensee of the face amount of the payment instrument in cash. See Kentucky Statutes 286.9-010
  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of the Department of Financial
    Institutions. See Kentucky Statutes 286.1-010
  • Committee amendment: An amendment recommended by a committee in reporting a bill or other measure.
  • Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
  • Company: may extend and be applied to any corporation, company, person, partnership, joint stock company, or association. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Consideration: means any premium or fee charged of any kind for the sale of goods or services in excess of the cash price of the goods or services. See Kentucky Statutes 286.9-010
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Control: means the power, directly or indirectly, to direct the management or policies of a company, whether through ownership of securities, by contract, or otherwise. See Kentucky Statutes 286.8-010
  • Control: means :
    (a) Ownership of, or the power to vote, directly or indirectly, twenty-five percent (25%) or more of a class of voting securities or voting interests of a licensee or applicant, or the person in control of a licensee or applicant. See Kentucky Statutes 286.9-010
  • Control: means :
    (a) Ownership of, or the power to vote, directly or indirectly, twenty-five percent (25%) or more of a class of voting securities or voting interests of a licensee or applicant, or person in control of a licensee or applicant. See Kentucky Statutes 286.11-003
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Corporation: may extend and be applied to any corporation, company, partnership, joint stock company, or association. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Credit report: A detailed report of an individual's credit history prepared by a credit bureau and used by a lender in determining a loan applicant's creditworthiness. Source: OCC
  • Customer: means a person who inquires into the availability of or applies for a
    deferred presentment service transaction or a person who enters into a deferred presentment service transaction. See Kentucky Statutes 286.9-010
  • Customer transaction data: means all data reported to the database pertinent to a particular customer transaction, including the date of the transaction, identification of the licensee and location, the sum of money involved, the time payment is deferred, fees charged, any alleged violations of this subtitle, and any identifying customer information. See Kentucky Statutes 286.9-010
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Database: means the database described in KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 286.9-010
  • Database provider: means one (1) of the following:
    (a) A third-party provider selected by the commissioner in accordance with KRS
    286. See Kentucky Statutes 286.9-010
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Deferred deposit service business license: means a license issued in accordance with this subtitle by the commissioner to conduct check cashing and deferred deposit service business in this Commonwealth. See Kentucky Statutes 286.9-010
  • deferred presentment service transaction: means , for consideration, accepting a payment instrument, and holding the payment instrument for a period of time prior to deposit or presentment in accordance with an agreement with or any representation made to the customer whether express or implied. See Kentucky Statutes 286.9-010
  • Delete: means to erase data by overwriting the data. See Kentucky Statutes 286.9-010
  • Demotion: means a change in the rank of an employee from a position in one (1) class to a position in another class having a lower minimum salary range and less discretion or responsibility. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Department: means the Kentucky Department of Financial Institutions. See Kentucky Statutes 286.11-003
  • Department: means the Department of Financial Institutions. See Kentucky Statutes 286.1-010
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Depository institution: means a depository institution as defined in the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, 12 U. See Kentucky Statutes 286.8-010
  • Directors: when applied to corporations, includes managers or trustees. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • Domestic: when applied to a corporation, partnership, business trust, or limited liability company, means all those incorporated or formed by authority of this state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Donor: The person who makes a gift.
  • Electronic funds transfer: The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than by check or cash. (Wire transfers, checks, drafts, and paper instruments do not fall into this category.) Source: OCC
  • Electronic instrument: means a card or other tangible object for the transmission or payment of money, including a stored value card or device, which contains a microprocessor chip, magnetic stripe, or other means for storage of information, that is prefunded and for which the value is decremented upon each use, but does not include a card or other tangible object that is redeemable by the issuer in the issuer's goods and services. See Kentucky Statutes 286.11-003
  • Eligible: refers to a person who has made a passing score on any examination required under KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Employ or use: means to employ, utilize, or contract with a person or the person's employees for the purpose of participating in the mortgage lending process,
    including the servicing of mortgage loans. See Kentucky Statutes 286.8-010
  • Employee: means a person regularly appointed to a position in the state service for which he or she is compensated on a full-time, part-time, or interim basis. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
  • Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
  • Fair Credit Reporting Act: A federal law, established in 1971 and revised in 1997, that gives consumers the right to see their credit records and correct any mistakes. Source: OCC
  • Federal: refers to the United States. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Federally funded position: means a full-time or a part-time position in which the unclassified employee is eligible for benefits at the same level as a classified employee in a permanent position. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Federally funded time-limited employee: means an employee in the unclassified service, appointed to a position that is funded one hundred percent (100%) by a federal grant or grants. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Financial institution: means any person doing business under the laws of any state or commonwealth or the United States relating to banks, bank holding companies, savings banks, savings and loan associations, trust companies, or credit unions. See Kentucky Statutes 286.11-003
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
  • Foreign: when applied to a corporation, partnership, limited partnership, business trust, statutory trust, or limited liability company, includes all those incorporated or formed by authority of any other state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Full-time employee: means an employee in a full-time position. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Full-time position: means a position, other than an interim position, requiring an employee to work at least thirty-seven and one-half (37. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Identifying customer information: means the name of the customer, his or her Social Security number, driver license number, or other state-issued identification number, address, any account numbers or information specific to a payment instrument provided by a customer to a licensee, a bank, savings bank, savings and loan association, or credit union, and any other nonpublic, personal financial information of a customer entered into the database or that comes into the possession of the database provider through customer or licensee inquiry or report. See Kentucky Statutes 286.9-010
  • Immediate family member: means a spouse, child, sibling, parent, grandparent, or grandchild. See Kentucky Statutes 286.8-010
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. Source: OCC
  • Interim position: means a position established to address a one-time or recurring need of less than nine (9) months duration and exempt from the classified service under KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Licensee: means a person to whom a license has been issued. See Kentucky Statutes 286.8-010
  • Licensee: means a person who has been issued either a check cashing license or a deferred deposit service business license by the commissioner in accordance with this subtitle to conduct check cashing or deferred deposit service business in the Commonwealth. See Kentucky Statutes 286.9-010
  • Licensee: means a person licensed under this subtitle. See Kentucky Statutes 286.11-003
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Managing principal: means a natural person who:
    (a) Meets the requirements of KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 286.8-010
  • Maturity date: means the date on which a payment instrument is authorized to be redeemed or presented for payment. See Kentucky Statutes 286.9-010
  • Monetary value: means a medium of exchange whether or not redeemable in money. See Kentucky Statutes 286.11-003
  • Money: means a medium of exchange that is authorized or adopted by the United States or a foreign government or other recognized medium of exchange, including a monetary unit of account established by an intergovernmental organization or by agreement between two (2) governments. See Kentucky Statutes 286.11-003
  • Money transmission: means engaging in the business of receiving money or monetary value to transmit, deliver, or instruct to be transmitted or delivered, money or monetary value to another location inside or outside the United States by any and all means, including but not limited to wire, facsimile, electronic transfer, or issuing stored value. See Kentucky Statutes 286.11-003
  • Month: means calendar month. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Mortgage loan: means any loan primarily for personal, family, or household use that is secured by a mortgage, deed of trust, or other equivalent consensual security interest on residential real property or any loan primarily for personal, family, or household use that is secured by collateral that has a mortgage lien interest in residential real property. See Kentucky Statutes 286.8-010
  • Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. Source: OCC
  • Mortgage loan broker: means any person who for compensation or gain, or in the expectation of compensation or other gain, received directly or indirectly, serves as an agent for any borrower in an attempt to obtain a mortgage loan, or holds oneself out as being able to do so. See Kentucky Statutes 286.8-010
  • Mortgage loan company: means any person who directly or indirectly:
    (a) Makes, purchases, or sells mortgage loans, or holds oneself out as being able to do so. See Kentucky Statutes 286.8-010
  • Mortgage loan originator: means a natural person who:
    (a) 1. See Kentucky Statutes 286.8-010
  • Mortgage loan processor: means a natural person who performs only clerical or support duties at the direction of and subject to the supervision and instruction of a mortgage loan originator. See Kentucky Statutes 286.8-010
  • National Credit Union Administration: The federal regulatory agency that charters and supervises federal credit unions. (NCUA also administers the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, which insures the deposits of federal credit unions.) Source: OCC
  • Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Originate: means to solicit, place, negotiate, offer to make, or broker a mortgage loan. See Kentucky Statutes 286.8-010
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Owner: when applied to any animal, means any person having a property interest in such animal. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Part-time position: means a position, other than an interim position, requiring an employee to work less than one hundred (100) hours per month. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Partnership: includes both general and limited partnerships. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Payment instrument: means a check, draft, money order, or traveler's check, for the transmission or payment of money sold or issued to one (1) or more persons, whether or not such instrument is negotiable. See Kentucky Statutes 286.9-010
  • Payment instrument: means :
    1. See Kentucky Statutes 286.11-003
  • 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
  • Person: means a natural person, or any type or form of corporation, company, partnership, proprietorship, association, or other legal entity. See Kentucky Statutes 286.1-010
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Physical location: means any location where the mortgage lending process, including the servicing of mortgage loans, is conducted. See Kentucky Statutes 286.8-010
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • Position: means an office or employment in an agency (whether part-time, full- time, or interim, occupied, or vacant) involving duties requiring the services of one (1) person. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. Source: OCC
  • Preliminary hearing: A hearing where the judge decides whether there is enough evidence to make the defendant have a trial.
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • Promotion: means a change of rank of an employee from a position in one (1) class to a position in another class having a higher minimum salary or carrying a greater scope of discretion or responsibility. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Promotional probation: means the period of service, consistent with the length of the initial probationary period, following the promotion of an employee with status which must be successfully completed in order for the employee to retain the position to which he or she has been promoted. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • 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.
  • Reallocation: means the correction of the classification of an existing position by placement of the position into the classification that is appropriate for the duties the employee has been and shall continue to perform. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Reclassification: shall mean the change in the classification of an employee when a material and permanent change in the duties or responsibilities of that employee has been assigned in writing by the appointing authority. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Record: means any books of account or other books, papers, journals, ledgers, statements, instruments, documents, files, messages, writings, correspondence, or other internal data or information, made or received in the regular course of business or otherwise, regardless of the mode in which it is recorded. See Kentucky Statutes 286.8-010
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium, or that is stored in an electronic or other medium, and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Kentucky Statutes 286.11-003
  • Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. Source: FDIC
  • Reemployment: shall mean the rehiring of an employee with status who has been laid off. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Register: means any official list of eligibles for a particular class and, except as provided in this chapter, placed in rank order according to the examination scores maintained for use in making original appointments or promotions to positions in the classified service. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Registrant: means a person to whom a registration has been issued. See Kentucky Statutes 286.8-010
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Residential mortgage loan application: means the submission of a borrower's financial information in anticipation of a credit decision, whether written or computer-generated, relating to a mortgage loan. See Kentucky Statutes 286.8-010
  • Residential real property: means a dwelling as defined in the Federal Truth in Lending Act, 15 U. See Kentucky Statutes 286.8-010
  • Responsible individual: means an individual who is employed by a licensee and has principal managerial authority over the provision of money transmission by the licensee in this state. See Kentucky Statutes 286.11-003
  • Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
  • Reversion: means either the returning of a status employee to his or her last position held in the classified service, if vacant, or the returning of a status employee to a vacant position in the same or similar job classification as his or her
    last position held in the classified service. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Secretary: means the secretary of the Personnel Cabinet as provided for in KRS
    18A. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Seniority: means the total number of months of state service. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
  • servicing: means :
    (a) Receiving any scheduled periodic mortgage loan payments from a borrower, including amounts for escrow accounts or other fees or obligations related to the mortgage loan, and making or crediting the payments to the mortgage loan account, owner of the loan, or a third party assigned to receive said payments. See Kentucky Statutes 286.8-010
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • 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
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Status: means the acquisition of tenure with all rights and privileges granted by the provisions of this chapter after satisfactory completion of the initial probationary period by an employee in the classified service. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Stored value: means monetary value that is evidenced by an electronic record. See Kentucky Statutes 286.11-003
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Sworn: includes "affirmed" in all cases in which an affirmation may be substituted for an oath. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
  • transacting business in Kentucky: means to participate in any meaningful way in the mortgage lending process, including the servicing of mortgage loans, with respect to any residential real property located in Kentucky. See Kentucky Statutes 286.8-010
  • Transfer: means a movement of any employee from one (1) position to another of the same grade having the same salary ranges, the same level of responsibility within the classified service, and the same salary received immediately prior to transfer. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • 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
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Unique identifier: means a number or other identifier assigned by protocols established by the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System and Registry. See Kentucky Statutes 286.8-010
  • Usury: Charging an illegally high interest rate on a loan. Source: OCC
  • Veto: The procedure established under the Constitution by which the President/Governor refuses to approve a bill or joint resolution and thus prevents its enactment into law. A regular veto occurs when the President/Governor returns the legislation to the house in which it originated. The President/Governor usually returns a vetoed bill with a message indicating his reasons for rejecting the measure. In Congress, the veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and the House.
  • Violate: includes failure to comply with. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Wholly owned subsidiary: means a subsidiary that is entirely owned or controlled by another person. See Kentucky Statutes 286.8-010
  • Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
  • Year: means calendar year. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010