183.881 Powers and duties of safety and security officers -- Employment contract
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(1)Safety and security officers so appointed shall be peace officers and conservators of
the peace. They shall have general police powers to arrest, without process, all
persons who within their view commit any crime or misdemeanor. They shall
possess all of the common law and statutory powers, privileges, and immunities of
sheriffs, except that they shall be empowered to serve civil process to the extent
authorized by the employing airport board. Without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, such safety and security officers are hereby specifically authorized and
empowered, and it shall be their duty:
(a)To preserve the peace, maintain order and prevent unlawful use of force or
violence or other unlawful conduct on the airport facility of their respective
airport board, and to protect all persons and property located thereon from
injury, harm, and damage; and
(b)To enforce, and to assist officials of their respective airport boards in the
enforcement of the lawful rules and regulations of said airport board, and to
assist and cooperate with the law enforcement agencies and officers.
Provided, however, that such safety and security officers shall exercise the powers
herein granted upon any real property owned or occupied by their respective airport
boards, including the streets passing through and adjacent thereto. Said powers may
be exercised in any county of the Commonwealth where the airport board owns,
uses, or occupies property. Additional jurisdiction may be established by agreement
with the chief of police of the municipality or sheriff of the county or the
appropriate law enforcement agency in which such property is located, dependent
upon the jurisdiction involved.
(2)Safety and security officers may exercise their powers away from the locations
described in subsection
(1)of this section only upon the following conditions:
(a)When in hot pursuit of an actual or suspected violator of the law;
(b)When authorized to do so pursuant to the agreement authorized by subsection
(1)of this section;
(c)When requested to act by the chief of police of the city or county in which the
airport board's property is located;
(d)When requested to act by the sheriff of the county in which the airport board's
property is located;
(e)When requested to act by the commissioner of the Department of Kentucky
State Police;
(f)When requested to act by the authorized delegates of those persons or
agencies listed in paragraph (c), (d), or
(e)of this subsection;
(g)When requested to assist a state, county, or municipal police officer, sheriff,
or other peace officer in the performance of his or her lawful duties; or
(h)When operating under an interlocal cooperation agreement pursuant to KRS
Chapter 65.
(3)Safety and security officers appointed pursuant to KRS 183.110 and 183.880 to
183.886 shall have, in addition to the other powers enumerated herein, the power to
conduct investigations anywhere in this Commonwealth, provided such
investigation relates to criminal offenses which occurred on property owned, leased,
or controlled by the airport board. Where desirable and at the discretion of the
airport board's police officials, the airport board's safety and security department
may coordinate said investigations with any law enforcement agency of this
Commonwealth or with agencies of the federal government.
(4)Safety and security departments created and operated by the airport boards shall, for
all purposes, be deemed public police departments and the sworn safety and
security officers thereof are, for all purposes, deemed public police officers.
(5)Nothing in KRS 183.110 and 183.880 to 183.886 shall be construed as a diminution
or modification of the authority or responsibility of any city or county police
department, the Department of Kentucky State Police, sheriff, constable granted
police powers, or other peace officer either on the property of an airport board or
otherwise. Nor shall anything in KRS 183.110 and 183.880 to 183.886 be construed
as a diminution or modification of the authority or responsibility of any constable.
(a)Public airport boards may, as a condition of employment, require a newly
appointed safety and security officer who will participate in the Kentucky
Law Enforcement Foundation Program Fund, authorized by KRS 15.410 to
15.510, to enter into an employment contract for a period of no longer than
five
(5)years from the date of graduation from the Department of Criminal
Justice Training or other training approved by the Kentucky Law Enforcement
Council.
(b)If a safety and security officer who entered into a contract authorized under
this subsection accepts employment as a peace officer with another law
enforcement agency, that law enforcement agency, including a local school
board that has established a police department under KRS 158.471, shall
reimburse the law enforcement agency that initially hired the safety and
security officer for the actual costs incurred and expended by the law
enforcement agency that initially hired the safety and security officer that are
associated with the initial hiring of that officer, including but not limited to
the application process, training costs, equipment costs, salary, and fringe
benefits. The law enforcement agency that initially hired the safety and
security officer shall be reimbursed for the costs from the time of the safety
and security officer's initial application until graduation from the Department
of Criminal Justice Training.