§ 40.005 Authorization to enact veterans’ bonus
§ 40.010 Definitions for chapter
§ 40.020 Legislative intent
§ 40.030 Direction that bonus be paid
§ 40.040 Service for which no allowance shall be made
§ 40.050 Computation of bonus
§ 40.060 Applications
§ 40.070 Time of filing applications — Extension — Return of late applications
§ 40.080 Supporting documents — Discretionary hearing
§ 40.100 Burden of proof
§ 40.110 Prompt determination to be made
§ 40.120 Notice of disapproval of claim to be sent to claimant — Review procedure
§ 40.130 Effect of final disapproval — Procedure
§ 40.140 Setting off tax delinquency against bonus
§ 40.150 Board of review — Appointment — Only three members to act in any matter — Compensation — Dissolution
§ 40.160 Claims and payments nonassignable, exempt from taxation and from claims of creditors and process of courts until received
§ 40.170 Forfeiture of right to bonus
§ 40.180 Estimates of sums required to finance bonus
§ 40.190 Issuance of bonds by State Property and Buildings Commission
§ 40.200 Commission’s power to fix details of bonds
§ 40.210 Tax-exempt character of bonds — Signatures — Temporary and replacement bonds
§ 40.220 “Veterans’ Bonus Fund.”
§ 40.230 Construction of chapter — Administrator’s power to make regulations
§ 40.300 Department of Veterans’ Affairs attached to Office of Governor — Organization
§ 40.305 Governor’s Advisory Board for Veterans’ Affairs — Membership — Meetings — Duties of board and commissioner of Department of Veterans’ Affairs
§ 40.310 Duties of Department of Veterans’ Affairs
§ 40.315 State veterans’ cemeteries — Administrative regulations — Funding
§ 40.317 Veterans’ benefits regional administrators and field representatives — Duties
§ 40.320 Purpose of KRS 40.325
§ 40.325 Definition of “nurse aide” — Veterans’ nursing homes — Office of Kentucky Veterans’ Centers — Administrative regulations — Funding — Contracts to hire licensed nurses and nurse aides to provide long-term care
§ 40.327 Loan repayment program for registered nurses and licensed practical nurses employed by Department of Veterans’ Affairs — KHEAA to administer program — Funding
§ 40.330 Authorization to apply for issuance of revenue bonds — Other financial arrangements
§ 40.335 Revenue bonds — Provisions — Exempt from taxation — Negotiability — Conditions in authorizing resolution — Sale of bonds — Prior consent not required
§ 40.340 Kentucky Homeless Veterans Program — Homeless Veterans Service Coordinating Committee
§ 40.345 Private employer may have voluntary veterans’ preference employment policy — Registry of employers — Administrative regulations
§ 40.350 Kentucky Wounded or Disabled Veterans Program — Powers and duties — Components of program — Data-sharing agreements — Confidentiality of veterans’ personal information — Administrative regulations — Authority to accept and expend moneys
§ 40.353 Kentucky Medal for Freedom — Eligibility — Administrative regulations — Funds to defray costs
§ 40.355 Indigent Veterans’ Burial Program — Funding — Administration
§ 40.357 Administrative regulations implementing Indigent Veterans’ Burial Program
§ 40.360 Veterans’ Service Organization Burial Honor Guard Program
§ 40.362 Veterans’ Service Organization Burial Honor Guard trust fund
§ 40.364 Duties of Department of Veterans’ Affairs
§ 40.366 Student participation in program — Excused absences
§ 40.400 Definitions for KRS 40.410 to 40.560
§ 40.410 Legislative intent
§ 40.420 Determination and declaration that bonus be paid
§ 40.430 Service for which no allowance shall be made
§ 40.440 Computation of bonus
§ 40.450 Powers and duties of Department of Military Affairs — Administration of veterans’ program trust fund by Department of Veterans’ Affairs
§ 40.460 Applications for bonus
§ 40.470 Time of filing applications — Return of late applications
§ 40.480 Discretionary hearing
§ 40.500 Burden of proof
§ 40.510 Prompt determination to be made
§ 40.520 Notice of disapproval of claim to be sent to claimant — Review procedure
§ 40.530 Effect of final disapproval — Procedure
§ 40.540 Setting off tax delinquency against bonus
§ 40.550 Claims and payments nonassignable — Exemptions applicable to payments
§ 40.560 Board of review — Appointment — Manner of deciding each claim — Compensation — Dissolution
§ 40.600 Kentucky Women Veterans Program — Administrative regulations
§ 40.650 Veterans’ Personal Loan Program
§ 40.990 Penalties
§ 40.991 Penalties for violation of laws relating to bonus paid veterans defined in KRS 40.400

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes > Chapter 40 - Veterans

  • Administrator: means the adjutant general of the Commonwealth. See Kentucky Statutes 40.010
  • 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.
  • agent: includes managing general agent unless the context requires otherwise. See Kentucky Statutes 304.9-085
  • 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.
  • Armed Forces: means the United States Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard, including the reserve components thereof on active duty. See Kentucky Statutes 40.010
  • 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
  • Base premium rate: means , for each class of business as to a rating period, the lowest premium rate charged or that could have been charged under the rating system for that class of business by the insurer to the individual or small group, or employer as defined in KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 304.17A-005
  • Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
  • Basic health benefit plan: means any plan offered to an individual, a small group, or employer-organized association that limits coverage to physician, pharmacy, home health, preventive, emergency, and inpatient and outpatient hospital services in accordance with the requirements of this subtitle. See Kentucky Statutes 304.17A-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
  • Beneficiary: means , in this order, widow, child or children (sharing equally), mother, father, and no other. See Kentucky Statutes 40.010
  • Bonus claim: means a claim or potential claim for a veterans' bonus. See Kentucky Statutes 40.010
  • Child: means a person:
    (a) Who is under the age of eighteen (18). See Kentucky Statutes 40.010
  • Church plan: means a church plan as defined in 29 U. See Kentucky Statutes 304.17A-005
  • City: includes town. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Claimant: means one who seeks to obtain payment of a bonus claim. See Kentucky Statutes 40.010
  • COBRA: means any of the following:
    (a) 26 U. See Kentucky Statutes 304.17A-005
  • Company: may extend and be applied to any corporation, company, person, partnership, joint stock company, or association. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Donor: The person who makes a gift.
  • Eligible individual: means an individual:
    (a) For whom, as of the date on which the individual seeks coverage, the aggregate of the periods of creditable coverage is eighteen (18) or more months and whose most recent prior creditable coverage was under a group health plan, governmental plan, or church plan. See Kentucky Statutes 304.17A-005
  • Employee benefit plan: means an employee welfare benefit plan or an employee pension benefit plan or a plan which is both an employee welfare benefit plan and an employee pension benefit plan as defined by ERISA. See Kentucky Statutes 304.17A-005
  • Employer-organized association: means any of the following:
    (a) Any entity that was qualified by the commissioner as an eligible association prior to April 10, 1998, and that has actively marketed a health insurance program to its members since September 8, 1996, and which is not insurer- controlled. See Kentucky Statutes 304.17A-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.
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Excepted benefits: means benefits under one (1) or more, or any combination of the following:
    (a) Coverage only for accident, including accidental death and dismemberment, or disability income insurance, or any combination thereof. See Kentucky Statutes 304.17A-005
  • Father: means a father, a father through adoption, or a man who for a period of not less than one (1) year stood in the relationship of a father to a qualified veteran before his or her entry into active service in the Armed Forces, or if two (2) persons stood in such relationship for one (1) year or more, the person who last stood in such relationship before the veteran's last entry into active service in the Armed Forces. See Kentucky Statutes 40.010
  • 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.
  • Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Governmental plan: means a governmental plan as defined in 29 U. See Kentucky Statutes 304.17A-005
  • Group health plan: means a plan, including a self-insured plan, of or contributed to by an employer, including a self-employed person, or employee organization, to provide health care directly or otherwise to the employees, former employees, the employer, or others associated or formerly associated with the employer in a business relationship, or their families. See Kentucky Statutes 304.17A-005
  • Guaranteed acceptance plan supporting insurer: means either an insurer, on or before December 31, 2000, that is not a guaranteed acceptance plan participating insurer or is a stop loss carrier, on or before December 31, 2000, provided that a guaranteed acceptance plan supporting insurer shall not include an employer- sponsored self-insured health benefit plan exempted by ERISA. See Kentucky Statutes 304.17A-005
  • Guaranteed acceptance program qualified individual: means an individual who, on or before December 31, 2000:
    (a) Is not an eligible individual. See Kentucky Statutes 304.17A-005
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • Health care service: means health care procedures, treatments, or services
    rendered by a provider within the scope of practice for which the provider is licensed. See Kentucky Statutes 304.17A-005
  • Index rate: means , for each class of business as to a rating period, the arithmetic average of the applicable base premium rate and the corresponding highest premium rate. See Kentucky Statutes 304.17A-005
  • Individual market: means the market for the health insurance coverage offered to individuals other than in connection with a group health plan. See Kentucky Statutes 304.17A-005
  • insured: as used in this subtitle , shall not be construed as preventing a person other than the insured with a proper insurable interest from making application for and owning a policy covering the insured or from being entitled under such a policy to any indemnities, benefits, and rights provided therein. See Kentucky Statutes 304.17-320
  • Insurer: means any insurance company. See Kentucky Statutes 304.17A-005
  • Insurer-controlled: means that the commissioner has found, in an administrative hearing called specifically for that purpose, that an insurer has or had a substantial involvement in the organization or day-to-day operation of the entity for the principal purpose of creating a device, arrangement, or scheme by which the insurer segments employer groups according to their actual or anticipated health status or actual or projected health insurance premiums. See Kentucky Statutes 304.17A-005
  • 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
  • Kentucky Access: has the meaning provided in KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 304.17A-005
  • Korean conflict: means the period beginning on June 27, 1950, and ending
    January 31, 1955. See Kentucky Statutes 40.010
  • Large group: means :
    (a) An employer with fifty-one (51) or more employees. See Kentucky Statutes 304.17A-005
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
  • Mother: means a mother, a mother through adoption, or a woman who for a period of not less than one (1) year stood in the relationship of a mother to a qualified veteran before his or her entry into active service in the Armed Forces, or if two (2) persons stood in such relationship for one (1) year or more, the person who last stood in such relationship before the veteran's last entry into active service in the Armed Forces. See Kentucky Statutes 40.010
  • 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.
  • Participant: means any employee or former employee of an employer, or any member or former member of an employee organization, who is or may become eligible to receive a benefit of any type from an employee benefit plan which covers employees of the employer or members of the organization, or whose beneficiaries may be eligible to receive any benefit as established in Section 3(7) of ERISA. See Kentucky Statutes 304.17A-005
  • provider: means any:
    (a) Advanced practice registered nurse licensed under KRS Chapter 314. See Kentucky Statutes 304.17A-005
  • Provider network: means an affiliated group of varied health care providers that is established to provide a continuum of health care services to individuals. See Kentucky Statutes 304.17A-005
  • Purchaser: means an individual, organization, employer, association, or the Commonwealth that makes health benefit purchasing decisions on behalf of a group of individuals. See Kentucky Statutes 304.17A-005
  • Qualified veteran: means a person answering to the specifications set forth in subsections (2) and (3), and who
    (a) Was a resident of the Commonwealth at the time of entry into active service in the Armed Forces and for at least six (6) months prior thereto. See Kentucky Statutes 40.010
  • Rating period: means the calendar period for which premium rates are in effect. See Kentucky Statutes 304.17A-005
  • real estate: includes lands, tenements, and hereditaments and all rights thereto and interest therein, other than a chattel interest. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • 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
  • Registered mail: means any governmental, commercial, or electronic method of delivery that allows a document or package to have:
    (a) Its chain of custody recorded in a register to enable its location to be tracked. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Self-insured plan: means a group health insurance plan in which the sponsoring organization assumes the financial risk of paying for covered services provided to its enrollees. See Kentucky Statutes 304.17A-005
  • 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.
  • Small employer: means , in connection with a group health plan with respect to a calendar year and a plan year, an employer who employed an average of at least two (2) but not more than fifty (50) employees on business days during the preceding calendar year and who employs at least two (2) employees on the first day of the plan year. See Kentucky Statutes 304.17A-005
  • Small group: means :
    (a) A small employer with two (2) to fifty (50) employees. See Kentucky Statutes 304.17A-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
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • uniformed services: means the Armed Forces and the Commissioned Corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and of the Public Health Service. See Kentucky Statutes 304.17A-005
  • Veteran: means a person who served in the active Armed Forces of the United States, during the Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, or the Korean conflict, for a period of ninety (90) days or more (exclusive of time spent AWOL. See Kentucky Statutes 40.010
  • Violate: includes failure to comply with. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Widow: means a woman who was the wife of a veteran at the time of his death, and who had not deserted him (except where there was a separation which was due to the misconduct of, or procured by, the veteran without the fault of the wife), and who had not remarried, (unless the purported remarriage was void or had been annulled). See Kentucky Statutes 40.010
  • World War II: means the period beginning December 7, 1941, and ending
    December 31, 1946. See Kentucky Statutes 40.010