Download pdfLoading PDF...
 
Page 1 of 1 
62.990   Penalties. 
(1)  Any person who violates KRS 62.010(1) or 62.050(1) on or after the date thirty (30) 
days after January 27, 1995, shall be fined not less than five hundred dollars ($500) 
nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000). 
(2)  (a)  If any person violates KRS 62.010(2) or (3) before January 1, 2010, his or her 
office shall be considered vacant. 
(b)  If any person violates KRS 62.010(2) or (3) on or after January 1, 2010, his 
office  shall  be  considered  vacant,  and  he  shall  not  be  eligible  for  the  same 
office for two (2) years. 
(3)  Any person convicted or removed from office under subsection (2) of this section 
prior  to  January  10,  1995,  may  apply  to  the  Circuit  Court  for  relief  from  the 
disability of being unable to serve in office. The Circuit Court, upon receipt of the 
application, shall modify the sentence to remove the disability of holding the office. 
This  subsection  shall  not  be  construed  to  require  the  removal  from  office  of  a 
person  who  has  been  appointed  to  fill  the  remainder  of  the  term  of  a  person 
removed from office under KRS 62.050 and 62.990. 
Effective:  March 13, 2009 
History:  Amended 2009 Ky. Acts ch. 7, sec. 1, effective March 13, 2009. -- Amended 
1995 (2d Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 4, sec. 3, effective January 27, 1995, retroactive 
to  November  1,  1991.  --  Amended  1966  Ky.  Acts  ch. 255,  sec. 66.  --  Recodified 
1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 3753, 
3755. 
Legislative  Research  Commission  Note  (3/13/2009).  The  Reviser  of  Statutes  has 
corrected a manifest clerical or typographical error in this statute under the authority 
of KRS 7.136(1)(h). 
Legislative Research Commission Note (1/27/95; modified 8/26/97).  The change in the 
fine for KRS 62.050 set out in subsection (1) of this statute is effective January 27, 
1995, and the other changes to this statute made by 1995 (2d Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts 
ch. 4, sec. 3 are  retroactively effective to November 1, 1991, pursuant to 1995 (2d 
Extra. Sess.) ch. 4, sec. 5. (This note was modified for clarification and to correct the 
reference to subsection (1) of this statute.)