Section 61.300 - Nonelective peace officer or deputy - QualificationsNo person shall serve as a deputy sheriff, patrol or other nonelective peace officer, or deputy peace officer, unless:
(1) He or she is a citizen of the United States and is twenty-one (21) years of age or over;(2) A sheriff may require his or her deputies to reside in the county in which they serve. Any deputy sheriff appointed pursuant to this section who has not been a resident of the county in which he or she serves for a period of at least two (2) years shall not be an active participant in any labor dispute and shall immediately forfeit his or her position if he violates this provision;(3) He or she has never been convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude;(4) He or she has not within a period of two (2) years hired himself or herself out, performed any service, or received any compensation from any private source for acting, as a privately paid detective, policeman, guard, peace officer, or otherwise as an active participant in any labor dispute, or conducted the business of a private detective agency or of any agency supplying private detectives, private policemen, or private guards, or advertised or solicited any such business in connection with any labor dispute; and(5) He or she has complied with the provisions of KRS 15.334.Amended by 2022 Ky. Acts ch. 90,§ 4, eff. 1/1/2023.Amended by 2019 Ky. Acts ch. 110,§ 2, eff. 6/26/2019.Effective:6/20/2005
Amended 2005, Ky. Acts ch. 132, sec. 30, effective6/20/2005. -- Amended 2000, Ky. Acts ch. 416, sec. 1, effective 7/14/2000. -- Amended 1998, Ky. Acts ch. 98, sec. 1, effective 7/15/1998. -- Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 134, sec. 1, effective 7/13/1990; and ch. 443, sec. 64, effective 7/13/1990. -- Amended 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 1, effective 7/15/1980. -- Amended 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 19, sec. 1. -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 308, sec. 25. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective 10/1/1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 3766a-5a, 3766a-5b, 3766a-5d, 3766a-5e.