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15.605 Definitions.

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15.605 Definitions. As used in KRS 15.610 to 15.635 unless the context requires otherwise: <br>(1) &quot;Inspection&quot; means any regular, on-site investigation periodically conducted, or any request for information periodically solicited in lieu of an on-site investigation, by <br>or on behalf of any public agency for the purpose of determining whether to award, <br>renew, alter, suspend or revoke a license, permit, accreditation or rating of a public <br>or private organization, or of any property employed by a public or private <br>organization in conducting its business, in the Commonwealth. The term shall not <br>include inspections conducted by or on behalf of an urban-county department of <br>health or special investigations conducted by law enforcement officers or grand <br>juries, or, upon specific complaint, by public agencies with competent jurisdiction <br>of the subject matter of the complaint, or by members of legislative bodies. (2) &quot;Duplicative inspection&quot; or &quot;an inspection that duplicates&quot; means one of two or more inspections that are conducted at different times during the same calendar year <br>and that inquire into the same condition of the premises of, or business conducted <br>by, the same public or private organization. (3) &quot;Inspecting agency&quot; means any agency of the state government or of a political subdivision of the state, other than an urban-county department of health, that <br>conducts inspections within the Commonwealth. (4) &quot;Conflicting standard&quot; or &quot;a standard that conflicts&quot; means one of two or more standards relating to the quality of a public or private organization, or of the <br>business conducted by such organization, or of property used by such organization <br>in conducting its business, that are employed in the same inspection or in <br>duplicative inspections and which cannot be met simultaneously. Effective: June 17, 1978 <br>History: Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 242, sec. 1,, effective June 17, 1978. -- Created 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 46, sec. 1.