§ 61.300

61.300 Nonelective peace officer or deputy -- Qualifications. No 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 deputie s 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, perfo rmed 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

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. Effective: January 1, 2023 History: Amended 2022 Ky. Acts ch. 90, sec. 4, effective January 1, 2023. -- Amended 2019 Ky. Acts ch. 110, sec. 2, effective June 27, 2019. -- Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 132, sec. 30, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 416, s ec. 1, effective July 14, 2000. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 98, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 134, sec. 1, effective July 13, 1990; and ch. 443, sec. 64, effective July 13, 1990. -- Amended 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 1, effective July 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 October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 3766a -5a, 3766a -5b, 3766a -5d, 3766a -5e.