45A.480 Compliance with workers' compensation insurance and unemployment insurance laws required -- Penalty.
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45A.480 Compliance with workers' compensation insurance and unemployment
insurance laws required -- Penalty.
(1) No state contract for building, construction, reconstruction, renovation, demolition,
or maintenance, or for any activity related to building, construction, reconstruction, <br>renovation, demolition, or maintenance shall be awarded by any agency, <br>department, or office of the Commonwealth of Kentucky or any political <br>subdivision of the Commonwealth of Kentucky to any person until that person shall <br>assure, by affidavit, that all contractors and subcontractors employed, or that will be <br>employed, under the provisions of the contract shall be in compliance with <br>Kentucky requirements for workers' compensation insurance according to KRS <br>Chapter 342 and unemployment insurance according to KRS Chapter 341.
(2) Any person who fails to comply with the assurances required under subsection (1)
of this section, upon such finding by a court of competent jurisdiction, shall be fined <br>an amount not to exceed four thousand dollars ($4,000), or an amount equal to the <br>sum of uninsured and unsatisfied claims brought under the provisions of KRS <br>Chapter 342 and unemployment insurance claims for which no wages were reported <br>as required by KRS Chapter 341, whichever is greater.
(3) The penalty imposed in subsection (2) of this section shall be enforced by the
county attorney for the county in which the violation occurred.
Effective: July 13, 1990 <br>History: Created 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 174, sec. 2, effective July 13, 1990.
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