§ 330.010 Title
§ 330.020 Definitions for chapter
§ 330.030 Auctioneer’s license required — When auction house operator’s license required — When escrow account required
§ 330.032 License required for real estate sales at auction — Collaboration between auctioneer and real estate broker
§ 330.040 Exceptions to KRS 330.030
§ 330.050 Board of Auctioneers — Membership — Supplies and conveniences — Insurance — Fees and charges — Fund — List of licensees — Administrative regulations — Removal of members — Compensation
§ 330.060 Requirements for licensure — Examination, fee, exception — Service of process
§ 330.070 Apprentice auctioneer requirements — Issuance of license — Fees — Continuing education requirement — Pocket license — Duty of auctioneer upon termination of apprentice employment — Placement of licenses in escrow — Notice of change of address
§ 330.095 Reciprocal licensing without examination — Continuing education requirements
§ 330.100 Place of business — Sign to be erected, requirements, exception — Claims and disputes
§ 330.110 License suspension, revocation, and other penalties — Grounds — Emergency orders and hearings
§ 330.115 Complaints against licensee — Answer by licensee
§ 330.120 Investigation of complaint — Conditions — Authorized board actions for investigation — Disposition hearing
§ 330.130 Hearing before imposition of disciplinary action — Notice — Final order — Appeal
§ 330.170 Duration and effect of revocation of license
§ 330.180 Seal — Records, as evidence, public
§ 330.190 Proof of license required to recover fees by court action — No right of recovery by apprentice auctioneer, exception
§ 330.192 Auctioneer’s education, research, and recovery fund — Annual fees, charges, and assessments — Purpose — Use — Statement of income and expenses — Coverage of licensees
§ 330.200 Municipal right to license auctioneers and auction house operators
§ 330.210 Sale of horses by auction
§ 330.220 Lots or parcels subjects of separate sales — When auction is complete — Absolute auction — Presumption of reserve auction — Bids by seller — Avoidance of sale — Prohibitions
§ 330.230 Auction advertising
§ 330.990 Penalties

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes > Chapter 330 - Auctioneers and Auction House Operators

  • Action: includes all proceedings in any court of this state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Advertisement: means any written, oral, or electronic communication that:
    (a) Offers real or personal property or any combination thereof by or at auction. See Kentucky Statutes 330.020
  • 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.
  • Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • 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.
  • Apprentice auctioneer: means any person who is employed or supervised, directly or indirectly, by an auctioneer to deal or engage in any activity in subsection (6) of this section, excluding the authority to enter into an auction listing contract or to independently maintain an auction escrow account. See Kentucky Statutes 330.020
  • Attorney: means attorney-at-law. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Auction: means any method of sale, lease, or exchange of real property, personal property, or any combination thereof, by means of competitively increasing or decreasing bids. See Kentucky Statutes 330.020
  • Auction house: means any fixed-base commercial establishment at which personal property is regularly or customarily offered at auction, or at which personal property is customarily or regularly deposited and accepted, on consignment or otherwise, for sale at auction at a fixed location. See Kentucky Statutes 330.020
  • Auction house operator: means the individual principally or ultimately responsible for the operation of an auction house, or in whose principal interest the establishment is operated. See Kentucky Statutes 330.020
  • 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.
  • Board: means the Board of Auctioneers. See Kentucky Statutes 330.020
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Corporation: may extend and be applied to any corporation, company, partnership, joint stock company, or association. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • 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.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
  • Escrow account: means an account, separate from the auctioneer's individual or office account, in which all money belonging to others is held for the preservation
    and guarantee of funds until disbursement to the appropriate party. See Kentucky Statutes 330.020
  • 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.
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Federal: refers to the United States. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • 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.
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Intangible property: Property that has no intrinsic value, but is merely the evidence of value such as stock certificates, bonds, and promissory notes.
  • 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
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Limited livestock auctioneer: means any auctioneer whose professional activities are limited to the calling of bids at the sale of livestock at fixed-based livestock yards operating under the control and guidance of the United States Department of Agriculture. See Kentucky Statutes 330.020
  • Livestock: means cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, alpacas, llamas, buffaloes, or any other animals of the bovine, ovine, porcine, caprine, equine, or camelid species. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Month: means calendar month. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
  • Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
  • principal auctioneer: means any person who offers, solicits, negotiates, or attempts to offer, solicit, or negotiate an auction listing contract, sale, lease, or exchange of real property, personal property, or any other item of value, or any combination thereof, which may lawfully be kept or offered for sale, lease, or exchange, or any combination thereof, by or at auction, or who offers the same at auction and who is allowed to supervise and accepts the responsibility of sponsoring one (1) or more apprentice auctioneers. See Kentucky Statutes 330.020
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • 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.
  • Real property: means real estate in its ordinary meaning, including but not limited to timeshares, options, leaseholds, and other interests less than leaseholds of any form or type which may be lawfully kept or offered for sale, exchange, or lease. See Kentucky Statutes 330.020
  • 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.
  • 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: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Year: means calendar year. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010