615.990 Penalties

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KY Code › Title LI › Chapter 615 › Section 615.990

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615.990 Penalties.

(1) Any person who violates KRS 615.040(4) shall be imprisoned in the county jail not

less than ten (10) nor more than sixty (60) days, or fined not less than twenty-five

dollars ($25) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200), or both.

(2) Any person who upon thirty (30) days' notice fails to remove a child from the state

when required to do so under a bond as provided in KRS 615.040(5)(c) or (d) shall

forfeit one thousand dollars ($1,000), to be recovered upon the bond by a suit in the

name of the county in which the bond is filed.

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