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Kentucky regulations: details

Copied from the state’s website on September 20 and 21, 2026. Check the official page before you rely on a rule.

What is here

  • 11,274 entries, one for each regulation page the Legislative Research Commission lists on its website, across 135 titles. Every page loaded.
  • THE COMMISSION SAYS THIS WEB TEXT IS UNOFFICIAL. Under KRS 13A.050(1) the official publication is the Kentucky Administrative Regulations Service. We copied the web text, and nothing here is the official version.
  • 4,229 entries carry rule text: pages the state prints with no status notice. 291 entries across the whole set are emergency regulations, the ones with an E after the number.
  • The other 7,045 carry no text here. 6,817 show a repealed, inactive, recodified, expired, withdrawn or superseded notice, 35 print text under an amendment label that is still going through filing, 2 print nothing, and 191 are pages for a proposed change. Each comes back with its number, heading and status, and says why there is no text.
  • Each rule’s 7-year expiration date (KRS 13A.3102) is shown exactly as the page prints it. It is not a statement that the rule is valid until then. On 141 entries with text it had already passed when we copied them.

How we checked it

  • Two programs written separately read all 11,274 pages and agreed on every entry’s status.
  • We drew 395 entries at random under a plan frozen before the test. Every check it named passed, and all 406 entries it re-read matched exactly.
  • 150 entries with text were compared against the commission’s own PDF of the same rule. All 150 matched. That PDF comes from the same publisher and is also unofficial.
  • A person read 150 entries against their pages and found none wrong. At that sample size the true error rate could still be as high as 2.5%.

What it can't tell you

  • Whether a rule is current, valid or in force. The date on each entry is the day we copied the page, nothing more.
  • Whether this web text matches the official Kentucky Administrative Regulations Service.
  • What a passed expiration date means for a rule the state still prints. We show the date and make no judgment.

Known gaps

  • Text the state prints on a page that also shows a status notice (496 pages), or on a proposed-change page (191), is not served as the rule.
  • 36 entries, 9 of them with text, carry a data-invalid mark on some sections that changes nothing visible on the page. The text is copied as shown and each of the 9 says so.
  • Images are not copied (28 entries with text have one), and superscript and subscript are not marked (126 entries).
  • The site publishes no robots file; we re-checked before every run and took one page every two seconds under a name that identifies GLO.

Notes you may see on an entry

  • 6,854 status entries: “No rule text is served for this entry. The state’s page shows it as repealed, expired or similar, or it is still in filing.”
  • 191 proposed-change pages: “This is the state’s page for a proposed change. Proposed text is not served here.”
  • 291 emergency entries: “The state marks this as an emergency regulation. An emergency and an ordinary regulation can share a number; both are returned.”
  • Entries whose expiration date has passed: “The 7-year expiration date the state prints is already past. We show it as printed and do not judge what it means.”
  • 9 entries with text: “The page marks some sections with a data-invalid attribute that changes nothing visible. We do not know what it means.”
  • A lookup of KRS: “That is Kentucky statute law, not the Administrative Regulations. The lookup says so rather than returning nothing.”
  • A lookup of a chapter number: ““501 KAR 1” is a chapter, not a regulation. The lookup says so rather than returning nothing.”

Nothing here is legal advice or a judgment that a rule is in force. Full counts for software: the defect_floor field on every Kentucky result (source=ky).

Kentucky regulations in GLO: what is here and how it was checked