329A.070 Scope of KRS 329A.010 to 329A.090

The provisions of KRS 329A.010 to 329A.090 do not apply to: (1) An officer or employee of the United States, this state, another state, or any political subdivision thereof, performing his or her official duties within the course and scope of his or her employment; (2) A public accountant, certified public accountant, or the bona fide employee of either, performing duties within the scope of public accountancy; (3) A person engaged exclusively in the business of obtaining and furnishing information regarding the financial rating or standing and credit of persons; (4) An attorney-at-law, or an attorney's bona fide employee, performing duties within the scope of the practice of law or authorized agent with duties limited to document and record retrieval or witness interviews; (5) An insurance company, licensed insurance agent, staff or independent adjuster if authorized to do business in Kentucky, or an individual employed by an insurance company or licensed insurance agent to investigate suspected fraudulent insurance claims, but who does not adjust losses or determine claims payments, performing investigative duties limited to matters strictly pertaining to an insurance transaction; (6) A person engaged in compiling genealogical information, or otherwise tracing lineage or ancestry, by primarily utilizing public records and historical information or databases; (7) A private business employee conducting investigations relating to the company entity by which he or she is employed; (8) An individual obtaining information or conducting investigations on his or her own behalf; (9) An employee of a private investigator or a private investigating firm who works under the direction of the private investigator or the private investigating firm for less than two hundred forty (240) hours per year. The board shall promulgate administrative regulations to establish a method of verification of the number of hours worked; (10) A professional engineer, a professional land surveyor, or a professional engineer's or professional land surveyor's bona fide employee, performing duties within the scope of practice of engineering or land surveying; or (11) A secured creditor, or person acting on behalf of a secured creditor, engaged in the repossession of the creditor's collateral pursuant to KRS 355.9-609

Effective:June 29, 2017 History: Amended 2017 Ky. Acts ch. 34, sec. 1, effective June 29, 2017. -- Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 81, sec. 1, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended 2004 Ky. Acts ch. 38, sec. 1, effective July 13, 2004; and 186, sec. 5, effective April 21, 2004. -- Created 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 269, sec. 13, effective July 15, 2002