As used in KRS 217.650 to 217.710 unless the context indicates otherwise: "Secretary" means the secretary for health and family services;
- (1) "Cabinet" means the Cabinet for Health and Family Services;
- (2) "Person" includes any individual, partnership, corporation, firm, or association;
- (3) "Hazardous substance" means any substance or mixture of substances which is:
(4)
- (a) "Toxic" and has the inherent capacity to produce bodily injury to man through ingestion, inhalation, or absorption through any body surface, including toxic substances which are poisonous; "Corrosive" on contact with living tissue causing substantial destruction of tissue by chemical action, but does not refer to action on inanimate surfaces; "Irritant" and not corrosive within the meaning of paragraph (b), which on immediate, prolonged, or repeated contact with normal living tissue will induce a local inflammatory reaction; "Strong sensitizer" and will cause on normal living tissue through an allergic or photodynamic process a hypersensitivity which becomes evident on reapplication of the same substance and which is designated as such by the secretary; "Flammable" with a flashpoint of eighty (80) degrees Fahrenheit or below; "Radioactive" as a result of disintegration of unstable atomic nuclei and emits energy;
- (b)
- (c)
- (d)
- (e)
- (f)
- (g) Capable of generating pressure through decomposition, heat, or other means;
- (h) Capable of causing substantial personal injury or illness during any customary or reasonably anticipated handling or use; and
- (5) "Label" means a display of written, printed, or graphic matter upon the immediate container of any substance, or that is easily legible through the outside container or wrapper.
Effective: June 20, 2005
History: Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 518, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 426, sec. 462, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 74, Art VI, sec. 107(1), (10) and (11). -- Created 1960 Ky. Acts ch. 244, sec. 2, effective June 16, 1960.