342.240 Office -- Equipment -- Seal -- Sessions -- Venue of certain proceedings.

KY Rev Stat § 342.240 (2019) (N/A)
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342.240 Office -- Equipment -- Seal -- Sessions -- Venue of certain proceedings. The department shall maintain its main office in Frankfort, Kentucky, using suitable rooms and offices belonging to this state, and shall be provided necessary office furniture to be paid for by the state. The commissioner shall provide necessary supplies, books, periodicals, and maps and shall provide a seal for the authentication of orders, awards, or proceedings of the administrative law judges, on which shall be inserted the words "Department of Workers' Claims, State of Kentucky, official seal." The board and the administrative law judges may hold sessions at any place within the state where necessary and shall have power to sue or institute legal proceedings in any court of this state, under existing laws as to jurisdiction of actions. Unless consented to by the commissioner, all actions or proceedings against the board or a member in his or her official capacity, or against an administrative law judge or the commissioner in his or her official capacity, shall be brought in the courts of Franklin County. Effective: July 15, 2010 History: Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 1805, effective July 15, 2010. -- Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 514, sec. 13, effective July 14, 2000. -- Amended 1996 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 1, sec. 58, effective December 12, 1996. -- Amended 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 181, Part 15, sec. 80, effective April 4, 1994. -- Amended 1987 1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 1, sec. 26, effective January 4, 1988. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 4926.