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 authorized 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, privileges, 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, whenever 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 Administrative Hearings in the Office of the Attorney
General created pursuant to KRS 15.111;
(7) "Party" means:
(a) The named person 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 agency 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). 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 words in the text were not
changed.
Notes of Decisions
Gary West v. Ky. Horse Racing Comm'n (2020)
ca6 · cites it 6×
“” See KRS § 13B.010(2), (6). Second, the stewards’ call was not a “final order” because it was not “made effective by an agency head,” as is necessary to issue a final administrative order.”
Thomas v. Cabinet for Families & Children (2001)
ky · cites it 3×
“” According to the definitions of KRS 13B.010, a final order is “the whole or part of the final disposition of an administrative hearing, whenever made effective by an agency head, whether affirmative, negative, injunctive, declaratory, agreed, or imperative in form.”
Kentucky Retirement Systems v. Lewis (2005)
ky
“The Board of Trustees of Kentucky Retirement Systems is responsible for entry of final administrative orders and is the agency head as defined by KRS 13B.010(4). Upon request, claimants are assigned a hearing officer to consider administrative appeals.”
Kipling v. City of White Plains (2001)
kyctapp · cites it 2×
“850(16) does not define “hearing,” the procedure before the Board was a “hearing” as defined by KRS 13B.010(2) and that the City’s failure to avail itself of the appeal process set forth in KRS 13B.”
Gallien v. Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure (2011)
kyctapp
“” Based on this language, the circuit court reasoned: As a matter of first impression, and with no input from the parties, this Court construes KRS 13B.010(6) as meaning that a final order need not dispose of all issues in a case so long as the action taken conclusively imposes…”
Sara v. Saint Joseph Healthcare System, Inc. (2015)
kyctapp
“” KRS 13B.010(1) defines an administrative agency as “each state board, bureau, cabinet, commission, department, authority, officer, or other entity in the executive branch of state government authorized by law to conduct administrative hearings.”
— Ky. Rev. Stat. § 13B.010(1) — 1 case
Sara v. Saint Joseph Healthcare System, Inc. (2015)
kyctapp
“” KRS 13B.010(1) defines an administrative agency as “each state board, bureau, cabinet, commission, department, authority, officer, or other entity in the executive branch of state government authorized by law to conduct administrative hearings.”
— Ky. Rev. Stat. § 13B.010(2) — 9 cases
Gary West v. Ky. Horse Racing Comm'n (2020)
ca6
“” See KRS § 13B.010(2), (6). Second, the stewards’ call was not a “final order” because it was not “made effective by an agency head,” as is necessary to issue a final administrative order.”
Thomas v. Cabinet for Families & Children (2001)
ky
“” According to the definitions of KRS 13B.010, a final order is “the whole or part of the final disposition of an administrative hearing, whenever made effective by an agency head, whether affirmative, negative, injunctive, declaratory, agreed, or imperative in form.”
Kipling v. City of White Plains (2001)
kyctapp
“850(16) does not define “hearing,” the procedure before the Board was a “hearing” as defined by KRS 13B.010(2) and that the City’s failure to avail itself of the appeal process set forth in KRS 13B.”
— Ky. Rev. Stat. § 13B.010(3) — 1 case
— Ky. Rev. Stat. § 13B.010(4) — 2 cases
Kentucky Retirement Systems v. Lewis (2005)
ky
“The Board of Trustees of Kentucky Retirement Systems is responsible for entry of final administrative orders and is the agency head as defined by KRS 13B.010(4). Upon request, claimants are assigned a hearing officer to consider administrative appeals.”
— Ky. Rev. Stat. § 13B.010(6) — 6 cases
Gary West v. Ky. Horse Racing Comm'n (2020)
ca6
“” See KRS § 13B.010(2), (6). Second, the stewards’ call was not a “final order” because it was not “made effective by an agency head,” as is necessary to issue a final administrative order.”
Thomas v. Cabinet for Families & Children (2001)
ky
“” According to the definitions of KRS 13B.010, a final order is “the whole or part of the final disposition of an administrative hearing, whenever made effective by an agency head, whether affirmative, negative, injunctive, declaratory, agreed, or imperative in form.”
Gallien v. Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure (2011)
kyctapp
“” Based on this language, the circuit court reasoned: As a matter of first impression, and with no input from the parties, this Court construes KRS 13B.010(6) as meaning that a final order need not dispose of all issues in a case so long as the action taken conclusively imposes…”
— Ky. Rev. Stat. § 13B.010(8) — 1 case
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