Any notice required to be given under this chapter shall be considered properly given and
served when deposited in the mail in a registered letter or package properly stamped and
addressed to the person to whom notice is to be given at his last known address and in
time to reach him in due time to act thereon. Notice may also be given and served like
notices in civil actions. Any notice given and served as provided in this section to the
consular representative of the nation of which any nonresident dependent of a deceased
employee is a citizen or subject, or to the authorized agent or representative of any such
official residing in this state, shall be deemed to have been properly given and served
upon such dependent.
Effective: October 1, 1942.
History: Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky.
Stat. sec. 4904.
Notes of Decisions
Akers v. Pike Cnty. Bd. of Educ., 171 S.W.3d 740 (Ky. 2005).
· cites it 6× “The claimant appealed, but the Workers’ Compensation Board (Board) and the Court of Appeals rejected arguments that KRS 342.135 required the Department to use registered mail and that the evidence was insufficient to prove it had complied with KRS 342.”
Uninsured Employers Fund v. Jose Acahua, 537 S.W.3d 316 (Ky. 2017).
· cites it 57× “As the UEF notes, the service provision of the preceding regulation app~ars to be at odds with KRS 342.135, which states in pertinent part that: Any notice required to be given under this chapter shall be considered properly given and served when deposited in the mail in a…”
Nat. Resources & Env't Prot. Cabinet v. Pinnacle Coal Corp., 729 S.W.2d 438 (Ky. 1987).
“In worker’s compensation matters, KRS 342.135, enacted in 1916, provides how notice is to be served: Any notice required to be given under this chapter shall be considered properly given and served when deposited in the mail in a registered letter or package properly stamped and…”
Amy Arndt v. Jefferson Cnty. Pub. Schs. (Ky. 2024).
· cites it 3× “In our 2005 Akers opinion, supra, this Court looked to KRS 342.135 to determine whether or not the DWC was required to “advise” a claimant in a 7 manner that would prove actual receipt by the claimant.”
Uninsured Employers' Fund v. Brewster, 818 S.W.2d 602 (Ky. 1991).
“195 and KRS 342.135 had been returned and the statutes’ provisions that notice be considered served when deposited in the mail did not afford due process to Energy Works, Inc.”
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