260.852 Commonwealth's industrial hemp policy

It is the declared policy of the Commonwealth that industrial hemp is a viable agricultural crop in the Commonwealth. The purposes of KRS 260.850 to 260.869 are to: (1) Promote the research and study methods of cultivating, processing, and marketing industrial hemp; (2) Promote the expansion of the Commonwealth's industrial hemp industry to the maximum extent permitted by federal law, in anticipation of a change in federal law allowing citizens of the Commonwealth to cultivate, handle, or process industrial hemp and industrial hemp products for commercial purposes without participating in research pilot programs; and (3) Move the Commonwealth and its citizens to the forefront of the industrial hemp industry

Effective:March 20, 2017 History: Created 2017 Ky. Acts ch. 45, sec. 2, effective March 20, 2017

Legislative Research Commission Note (3/20/2017). 2017 Ky. Acts ch. 45 contained 13 sections. Sections 1 to 10 of that Act amended, repealed and reenacted, or created statutes relating to the industrial hemp research program found in the statutory range of KRS 260.850 to 260.869. Sections 11 and 12 amended or created statutes in other KRS chapters, and Section 13 repealed some statutes within KRS 260.850 to 260.869. The correct reference should have been to only Sections 1 to 10 of this Act, the relevant range affecting the industrial hemp research program, and in codification the Reviser of Statutes has codified that language in this statute accordingly under the authority of KRS 7.136(1)(h) to correct manifest clerical or typographical errors