211.7 55 Breast -feeding permitted -- Municipal ordinances not to prohibit or restrict -- Interference prohibited. (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of the law, a mother may breast -feed her baby or express breast milk in any location, public or private, w here the mother is otherwise authorized to be. Breast -feeding a child or expressing breast milk as part of breast -feeding shall not be considered an act of public indecency and shall not be considered indecent exposure, sexual conduct, lewd touching, or ob scenity. (2) A municipality may not enact an ordinance that prohibits or restricts a mother breast -feeding a child or expressing breast milk in a public or private location where the mother and child are otherwise authorized to be. In a municipal ordinance , indecent exposure, sexual conduct, lewd touching, obscenity, and similar terms do not include the act of a mother breast -feeding a child in a public or private location where the mother and child are otherwise authorized to be. (3) No person shall interf ere with a mother breast -feeding her child in any location, public or private, where the mother is otherwise authorized to be. er and child are otherwise authorized to be. (3) No person shall interf ere with a mother breast -feeding her child in any location, public or private, where the mother is otherwise authorized to be. Effective: July 12, 2006 History: Created 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 80, sec. 1, effective July 12, 2006.
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