Ky. Rev. Stat. § 35.679 (2026)

Any person subject to this code is guilty of sexual harassment and shall be punished as a court-martial may direct who:

(1) Influences, offers to influence, or threatens the career, reputation, pay, or job of another person in exchange for sexual favors;

(2) Makes deliberate or repeated unwanted offensive comments or gestures of a sexually explicit nature toward, or in the presence of, another person; or

(3) Displays or transmits to another person, without legal justification or lawful authorization, imagery of a sexually explicit nature. Effective: July 15, 2016 History: Created 2016 Ky. Acts ch. 75, sec. 6, effective July 15, 2016. Legislative Research Commission Note (7/15/2016). 2016 Ky. Acts ch. 75, sec. 6 provided that a new section of KRS Chapter 35 was created to be numbered as KRS 35.680. However, a statute had previously been numbered as KRS 35.680 when it was created in 1970 and then renumbered as KRS 35.730 in 2013. Since the designation of "35.680" had been applied to an earlier statute and should not be assigned to a different statute because it would create confusion, the Reviser of Statutes has numbered 2016 Ky. Acts ch. 75, sec. 6 (this statute) as KRS 35.679 instead under the authority of KRS 7.136(1)(a).