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199.400 Security for care and custody of nonresident child accepted for boarding or lodging in this state.

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199.400 Security for care and custody of nonresident child accepted for boarding or lodging in this state. Whenever the county judge/executive of any county, in his discretion, deems it necessary <br>that a person accepting a nonresident child for boarding or lodging in this Commonwealth <br>shall satisfy him that such a nonresident child shall never become a charge upon the <br>Commonwealth or any subdivision thereof, he may require that the proper public <br>authorities of the state or county in which the nonresident child resides, furnish security, <br>to his satisfaction, that they will assume the care and custody of such child in the event <br>such child becomes a charge upon this Commonwealth or any subdivision thereof. <br>Whenever any county judge/executive shall enter an order that such security shall be <br>furnished for all nonresident children boarded or lodged in his county, no child shall <br>thereafter be accepted for boarding or lodging in said county until such security is <br>furnished. Any person who accepts a nonresident child under the age of sixteen (16) years <br>for boarding or lodging, in any county, without the furnishing of the security provided for <br>herein, after the county judge/executive of the county has provided by order for the <br>furnishing of such security, shall be guilty of an offense and punished as provided in <br>subsection (3) of KRS 199.990. History: Amended 1970 Ky. Acts ch. 92, sec. 64. -- Created 1946 Ky. Acts ch. 13, sec. 3. Note: This section was amended by 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 280, sec. 143, which was to have become effective July 1, 1982. Thereafter, 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 284 changed the <br>effective date of that act to July 15, 1984. Then, 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 184 repealed both <br>1980 Ky. Acts ch. 280, and 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 284.