61.900 Definitions for KRS 61.902 to 61.930.

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61.900 Definitions for KRS 61.902 to 61.930. As used in KRS 61.902 to 61.930: <br>(1) &quot;Commission&quot; means a commission issued to an individual by the secretary of justice and public safety, entitling the individual to perform special law enforcement <br>duties on public property; (2) &quot;Council&quot; means the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council; <br>(3) &quot;Cabinet&quot; means the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet; <br>(4) &quot;Public property&quot; means property currently owned or used by any organizational unit or agency of state, county, city, metropolitan government, or a combination of <br>these. The term shall include property currently owned or used by public airport <br>authorities; (5) &quot;Secretary&quot; means the secretary of the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet; <br>(6) &quot;Special law enforcement officer&quot;: (a) Means one whose duties include the protection of specific public property from intrusion, entry, larceny, vandalism, abuse, intermeddling, or trespass; (b) Means one whose duties include the prevention, observation, or detection of, or apprehension for, any unlawful activity on specific public property; (c) Means one whose special duties include the control of the operation, speed, and parking of motor vehicles, bicycles, and other vehicles, and the movement <br>of pedestrian traffic on specific public property; (d) Means one whose duties include the answering of any intrusion alarm on specific public property; (e) Shall include the Capitol police, the Capital Plaza police, public school district security officers, public airport authority security officers, and the <br>officers of the other public security forces established for the purpose of <br>protecting specific public property; and (f) Shall not include members of a lawfully organized police unit or police force of state, county, city, or metropolitan government, or a combination of these, <br>who are responsible for the detection of crime and the enforcement of the <br>general criminal law enforcement of the state; it shall not include any of the <br>following officials or officers: <br>1. Sheriffs, sworn deputy sheriffs, city marshals, constables, sworn deputy <br>constables, and coroners; 2. Auxiliary and reserve police appointed under KRS 95.160 or 95.445, or <br>citation and safety officers authorized by KRS 83A.087 and 83A.088; 3. State park rangers and officers of the Division of Law Enforcement <br>within the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources; 4. Officers of the Transportation Cabinet responsible for law enforcement; 5. Officers of the Department of Corrections responsible for law <br>enforcement; 6. Fire marshals and deputy fire marshals; 7. Other officers not mentioned above who are employed directly by state <br>government and are responsible for law enforcement; 8. Federal peace officers; 9. Those campus security officers who are commissioned under KRS <br>164.950; 10. Private security guards, private security patrolmen, and investigators licensed pursuant to state statute; and 11. Railroad policemen covered by KRS 277.270 and 277.280; and (7) &quot;Sworn public peace officer&quot; means one who derives plenary or special law enforcement powers from, and is a full-time employee of, the federal government, <br>the Commonwealth, or any political subdivision, agency, department, branch, or <br>service of either, or of any municipality. Effective: June 26, 2007 <br>History: Amended 2007 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 132, effective June 26, 2007. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 23, sec. 13, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1992 Ky. Acts <br>ch. 48, sec. 4, effective July 14, 1992; ch. 211, sec. 13, effective July 14, 1992; and <br>ch. 435, sec. 2, effective July 14, 1992. -- Amended 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 331, sec. 15, <br>effective July 15, 1986. -- Amended 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 188, sec. 20, effective July <br>15, 1980. -- Created 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 178, sec. 2, effective January 1, 1977.