§ 13b-010

13B.010 Definitions for chapter. As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) 'Administrative agency' or 'agency' means each state board, bureau, cabinet, commission, department, authority, officer, or other entity in the executive branch of state government authori zed by law to conduct administrative hearings; (2) 'Administrative hearing' or 'hearing' means any type of formal adjudicatory proceeding conducted by an agency as required or permitted by statute or regulation to adjudicate the legal rights, duties, privi leges, or immunities of a named person; (3) 'Agency head' means the individual or collegial body in an agency that is responsible for entry of a final order; (4) 'Final order' means the whole or part of the final disposition of an administrative hearing, w henever made effective by an agency head, whether affirmative, negative, injunctive, declaratory, agreed, or imperative in form; (5) 'Hearing officer' means the individual, duly qualified and employed pursuant to this chapter, assigned by an agency head as presiding officer for an administrative hearing or the presiding member of the agency head; (6) 'Office' means the Office of

ified and employed pursuant to this chapter, assigned by an agency head as presiding officer for an administrative hearing or the presiding member of the agency head; (6) 'Office' means the Office of Administrative Hearings in the Office of the Attorney General created pursuant to KRS 15.111; (7) 'Party' means: (a) The named per son whose legal rights, duties, privileges, or immunities are being adjudicated in the administrative hearing; (b) Any other person who is duly granted intervention in an administrative hearing; and (c) Any agency named as a party to the adjudicatory proceeding or entitled or permitted by the law being enforced to participate fully in the administrative hearing; and (8) 'Recommended order' means the whole or part of a preliminary hearing report to an agen cy head for the disposition of an administrative hearing. Effective: April 5, 2024 History: Amended 2024 Ky. Acts ch. 112, sec. 3, effective April 5, 2024. -- Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 318, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1996. -- Created 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 382, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1996. Legislative Research Commission Note (4/5/2024).

e April 5, 2024. -- Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 318, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1996. -- Created 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 382, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1996. Legislative Research Commission Note (4/5/2024). Under the authority of KRS 7.136, the reviser of statutes has renumbered the subsections in this statute during codification to place the terms in alphabetical order. The wo rds in the text were not changed.