RELATES TO:

KRS 16.040

STATUTORY AUTHORITY:

KRS 16.040, 16.080

NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY:

KRS 16.040 requires that officers be in good health and also requires the commissioner to prescribe minimum physical requirements for appointment as an officer, to conduct such tests, and to require physical examinations to determine the fitness of each applicant. This administrative regulation establishes the tests and examinations that shall be conducted.

1. Section 1. Applicants selected to be cadet troopers and offered probationary employment as trainees shall be required to submit to medical examinations to determine fitness to safely perform essential job tasks with or without reasonable accommodation. The medical examination shall be conducted after an offer of employment has been made but before applicants report for training. The offer of employment shall be conditioned upon successful completion of the medical examination.
2. Section 2. Medical examinations shall be conducted by physicians selected by the department. The examinations shall include hearing and visual examinations, and a determination as to whether the applicant is color blind. The physicians shall render opinions to the department as to whether applicants who have been offered employment are physically fit to safely perform essential job tasks, with or without reasonable accommodation, and as to whether applicants have any medical condition which, during the performance of duty as a state trooper, and with or without reasonable accommodation, would endanger the applicant or others.
3. Section 3. As part of the medical examination, applicants shall be required to provide complete medical history information and to answer questions related to the examination. Information and records related to the medical examinations shall be confidential and retained in a file separate from the applicants personnel file.
4. Section 4. The medical examination may include tests conducted by an occupational therapist under the direction of the examining physician, if necessary to determine an applicant's ability to safely perform essential job tasks with or without reasonable accommodation.

History

(19 Ky.R. 2184; eff. 5-10-1993; Am. 22 Ky.R. 962; 1306; eff. 1-8-1996; 48 Ky.R. 1334, 2410; eff. 5-31-2022.)

FILED WITH LRC: February 7, 2021

CONTACT PERSON: Amy Barker, Assistant General Counsel, 125 Holmes Street, Frankfort, Kentucky 40601, phone (502) 564-8207, fax (502) 564-6686, email Justice.RegsContact@ky.gov.