207.140 Preemployment inquiry -- Basis for rejection of applicant for employment

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or housing.

(1)Nothing contained in KRS 207.130 to 207.240 shall be construed to prevent an

employer from making any preemployment inquiry about the existence of an

applicant's disability and about the extent to which that disability has been

overcome by treatment, medication, appliances, or other rehabilitation.

(2)Nothing contained in KRS 207.130 to 207.240 shall be construed to prohibit the

rejection of an applicant for employment or housing on the basis of:

(a)A physical disability which interferes with a person's ability to adequately

perform assigned job duties;

(b)Any disability which is not demonstrable by medically accepted clinical or

laboratory diagnostic techniques, including, but not limited to, alcoholism,

drug addiction, and obesity; or

(c)Any communicable disease, either carried by, or afflicting the applicant.