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chapter-432•Kentucky Revised Statutes, Chapter 432 — Offenses Against the State and Public Justice
chapter-432KRS ch. 432Code14.07.2000
Title XL — Crimes and Punishments
Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session.
The KRS database was last updated on 2026-09-01.
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Any person who signs any name to a petition, memorial or remonstrance intended for presentation to the General Assembly, a county judge/executive or the Governor, without authority from the person whose name is signed or where there is no such person, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500).
Effective: June 17, 1978
History: Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 384, sec. 531, effective June 17, 1978. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 1345.
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Witnesses, jurors and officers of courts, for disobeying a summons of court, or neglecting to execute or make due return of a subpoena or order of court or other judicial officer, may be punished for contempt.
Effective: January 2, 1978
History: Amended 1976 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 14, sec. 442, effective January 2, 1978. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 1293.
No court or judge shall proceed by process of contempt or impose a fine against any person who animadverts upon or examines into the proceedings or conduct of such court or judge, by words spoken or writing published, not in the presence of the court or judge in the courthouse during the sitting of the court.
Effective: October 1, 1942
History: Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 1295.
(1) Upon a capias or other original process against a person charged with a contempt, the court awarding it shall direct in what penalty the accused shall give bond, with good surety, for his appearance at the time and place named in the process, which order shall be endorsed on the process. If the bond given is violated, proceedings shall be instituted by the attorney for the Commonwealth to recover the penalty.
(2) If the person arrested by virtue of the process fails to give bond as required, the officer making the arrest shall forthwith remove and lodge him in the jail of the county from which the process issued.
Effective: October 1, 1942
History: Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 1297, 1298.
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A person committed to prison for contempt shall not be admitted to bail.
Effective: October 1, 1942
History: Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 1296.
Nothing in KRS 432.230 to 432.270 shall prevent any court or judge from proceeding against any person writing or publishing a libel or slanderous words concerning such court or judge in relation to his judicial conduct in court by indictment, nor prevent any court from punishing any person guilty of a contempt in resisting or disobeying any judicial order or process issued by or under the authority of such court.
Effective: October 1, 1942
History: Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 1299.
In all trials by jury arising under KRS 432.230 to 432.280, the truth of the matter may be given in evidence.
Effective: October 1, 1942
History: Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 1292.
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Any member of the General Assembly or any other executive, judicial, ministerial or legislative officer of this state or of any county or city, including members of boards of education and subdistrict trustees, who takes or agrees to take any bribe to do or omit to do any act in his official capacity shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from the right of suffrage for ten (10) years.
History: Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 406, sec. 317. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 1366.
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(1) Any person having custody of a person charged with a public offense shall summon to his aid as many of the able-bodied male citizens of his county between the ages of twenty-one (21) and fifty (50) years as may be necessary for the protection of the person in his custody. Any person so summoned who fails to obey the summons or verbal notice of the officer shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500).
(2) Any officer having knowledge or reasonable grounds to believe that an effort will be made to rescue, injure or kill any person in his custody charged with a public offense shall immediately provide the means necessary to prevent such an act.
(3) Any officer in charge of a jail who has reasonable grounds to believe that the jail will be attacked by a mob or persons confederated or banded together to inflict violence upon any inmate, may arm the threatened inmates for their own protection.
Effective: October 1, 1942
History: Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 1241a-4.
In any prosecution under KRS 432.510, no witness shall be excused from testifying on the ground that his testimony may incriminate himself. But, no such testimony shall be used against him in any prosecution except for perjury, and he shall be discharged from all liability for any violation of KRS 432.510 necessarily disclosed in his testimony.
Effective: October 1, 1942
History: Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 1241a-7.
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No person shall, except with the consent of the General Assembly or of the Governor when the General Assembly is not in session, bring or cause to be brought into this state any armed person, not a citizen of this state, to preserve the peace, suppress domestic violence or to serve as a deputy of any officer or as a member of a posse comitatus, nor shall any officer knowingly summon any such person or any other person who has come into the state for that purpose to aid in suppressing violence. Any person who violates this section shall be fined not less than one thousand dollars ($1,000) nor more than five thousand dollars ($5,000), or imprisoned for not less than six (6) nor more than twelve
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Effective: October 1, 1942
History: Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 1376.
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(1) It shall be unlawful for any person except a member of a police department or police force or an official with written authorization from the head of a department which regularly maintains a police radio system authorized or licensed by the Federal Communications Commission, to have in his or her possession, or in an automobile or other vehicle, or to equip or install in or on any automobile or other vehicle, any mobile radio set or apparatus capable of either receiving or transmitting radio or other messages or signals within the wave length or channel now or which may hereafter be allocated by the Federal Communications Commission, or its successor, for the purpose of police radios, or which may in any way intercept or interfere with the transmission of radio messages by any police or other peace officers. It shall be unlawful for any car, automobile, or other vehicle other than one publicly owned and entitled to an official license plate issued by the state issuing a license for the car, to have, or be equipped with the sets or apparatus even though the car is owned by an officer. This section shall not apply to any automobile or vehicle owned or operated by a member of a sheriff's department authorized by the fiscal court to operate a radio communications system that is licensed by the Federal Communications Commission or other federal agency having the authority to license same. Nothing in this section shall preclude a probation and parole officer employed by the Department of Corrections from carrying on his person or in a private vehicle while conducting his official duties an authorized, state-issued portable radio apparatus capable of transmitting or receiving signals.
(2) Any person guilty of violating any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50) and not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500), or imprisonment not exceeding twelve (12) months, or both so fined and imprisoned.
(3) It shall be the duty of any and all peace officers to seize and hold for evidence any and all equipment had or used in violation of the provisions of this section, and, upon conviction of the person having, equipping or using such equipment, it shall be the duty of the trial court to order such equipment or apparatus destroyed, forfeited, or escheated to the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and said property may be ordered destroyed, forfeited, or escheated as above provided without a conviction of the person charged with violating this section.
(4) Nothing contained in this section shall prohibit the possession of a radio by:
(a) An individual who is a retailer or wholesaler and in the ordinary course of his business offers such radios for sale or resale;
(b) A commercial or educational radio or television station, licensed by the Federal Communications Commission, at its place of business; or
(c) An individual who possesses such a radio, provided it is capable of receiving radio transmissions only and is not capable of sending or transmitting radio messages, at his place of residence; licensed commercial auto towing trucks; newspaper reporters and photographers; emergency management agency personnel authorized in writing by the director of the division of emergency management (for state personnel) or chief executive of the city or county (for their respective personnel); a person holding a valid license issued by the Federal Communications Commission in the amateur radio service; peace officers authorized in writing by the head of their law enforcement agency, Commonwealth's attorneys and their assistants, county attorneys and their assistants, except that it shall be unlawful to use such radio to facilitate any criminal activity or to avoid apprehension by law enforcement officers. Violation of this section shall, in addition to any other penalty prescribed by law, result in a forfeiture to the local law enforcement agency of such radio.
(5) The provisions of this section shall not apply to a paid or volunteer member of a fire department or a paid or volunteer member of a public ambulance service licensed in Kentucky who has been given permission in writing by the chief of the fire department and the chief of each law enforcement agency whose frequency is to be monitored, or the director of the ambulance service and the chief of each law enforcement agency whose frequency is to be monitored, to possess a radio capable of receiving on a frequency allocated to a police department or law enforcement agency, whether the radio is in a vehicle or not.
(6) The secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet is hereby empowered by issuance of a secretary's order to exempt from the prohibitions and penalties of this section the possession and use of any and all radio communication equipment that he finds is necessary to be owned and used by members of the general public and other nonpolice persons for utilization in the N.O.A.A. weather radio system.
Effective: July 14, 2000
History: Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 176, sec. 1, effective July 14, 2000. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 226, sec. 111, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 418, sec. 9, effective July 15, 1994. – Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 110, sec. 1, effective July 14, 1992. -- Amended 1986, Ky. Acts ch. 241, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1986. -- Amended 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 137, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1980. -- Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 435, sec. 1, effective June 17, 1978. -- Amended 1976 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 14, sec. 443, effective January 2, 1978. -- Amended 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 166, sec. 1 -- Created 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 66, sec. 1.
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Whoever willfully sells, trades, barters, gives away or makes, or assists in making any unauthorized disposition of any food commodity donated under any program of the state or federal government, or shall withhold or threaten to withhold from or offer to provide the commodities to any person in order to influence the vote of any person at an election of public office, or whoever, not being an authorized recipient thereof, willfully converts to his own use or benefit any such food commodity, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than $100 or more than $500, or by imprisonment for not less than thirty (30) days or more than six (6) months, or both.
History: Created 1964 Ky. Acts ch. 38, sec. 1.
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