329.010 Definitions.

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As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1)"Detection of deception examiner," referred to in this chapter as "examiner," means

any person, other than a trainee, who uses any device or instrument to test or

question individuals for the purpose of detecting deception. Before a person may be

licensed as an examiner, he or she must have at least one

(1)year's experience in

detection of deception. Before an examiner may supervise a trainee, he or she must

have at least two

(2)years' experience in detection of deception;

(2)"Trainee" means any person who has successfully completed a polygraph

examiner's course at a polygraph examiner's school approved by the cabinet, but

who has not been awarded the final certificate of proficiency or graduate certificate

from the school, or any person, not a licensed examiner, who administers detection

of deception examinations under the direct, personal supervision and control of a

licensed examiner who is licensed by this state. No examiner may have more than

two

(2)trainees under his or her supervision and control at any one

(1)time;

(3)"Person" means any natural person, partnership, association, corporation, or trust;

(4)"Cabinet" means the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet of the Commonwealth of

Kentucky;

(5)"Secretary" means the secretary of the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet of the

Commonwealth of Kentucky;

(6)"Polygraph" means an instrument which records permanently and simultaneously a

subject's cardiovascular and respiratory patterns and other physiological changes

pertinent to the detection of deception; and

(7)"Polygraph examiner" means the same as detection of deception examiner.