61.362 Agreement permitting peace officers to patrol private residential property
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to enforce state and local traffic and motor vehicle laws.
(1)Any public police department, sheriff's office, or the Department of Kentucky State
Police may, upon written agreement with a residential property owner or a
residential property owners' association, patrol the roadways and parking lots of
private residential communities within the jurisdiction of the public police
department, sheriff's office, or the Department of Kentucky State Police and enforce
the traffic and motor vehicle laws of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and local
traffic and motor vehicle ordinances, on that residential private property.
(2)This section shall not permit a public police department, sheriff's office, or the
Department of Kentucky State Police to enforce the private rules or regulations of
the residential property owner.
(3)This section shall not limit any peace officer from coming on residential private
property for the enforcement of the law, provided that the entry upon residential
private property is consistent with the provisions of the Constitution of the United
States, the Constitution of Kentucky, the Kentucky Revised Statutes, and applicable
court decisions.