Section 338.061 - Occupational safety and health standards - Suspension, delay, or alteration in enforcement of administrative regulation(1) Occupational safety and health standards may be adopted, modified, or repealed by the board through the administrative regulation process of KRS Chapter 13A as it shall deem necessary, except the secretary may through an administrative order suspend, delay, or alter enforcement of a promulgated occupational safety and health administrative regulation if the federal government has suspended, delayed, or enjoined the corresponding federal regulation or suspended, delayed, enjoined, or altered the enforcement thereof. Any action taken by the secretary to suspend, delay, or alter the enforcement of an occupational safety and health administrative regulation pursuant to this subsection shall be consistent with those taken by the federal government, except that the secretary may enforce an administrative regulation or standard which immediately preceded the administrative regulation whose enforcement is amended, delayed, or altered.(2) Established federal standards and national consensus standards may be adopted by reference.Amended by 2018 Ky. Acts ch. 8,§ 1, eff. 3/8/2018.Effective:7/12/2006
Amended 2006, Ky. Acts ch. 89, sec. 2, effective7/12/2006. -- Created 1972 Ky. Acts ch. 251, sec. 7.