Skip to content
The COVID Project
  1. Library
  2. State corrections, emergency management and Guard
  3. AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-040

Ex. AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD-040 Order Primary source read

Executive Order 2020-245

State of Emergency Relating to the Prohibition Against Price Gouging (renewing the implementation of KRS 367.372 et seq.)

Governor Andy Beshear · Kentucky (Governor); State level (State)

The COVID Project

The record

Jurisdiction
Kentucky (Governor); State level · Kentucky
Level
State
Authority
KRS Chapter 367; KRS 367.374
Issued
2020-03-20 Mar. 20, 2020
Effective
2020-03-20
End
Renewed by successive orders during the state of emergency (KRS 367.374 implementation periods); the Kentucky state of emergency continued through 2021 (read as 2021-09-30)
In force
Mar. 20, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
Limitation types
Supply chainOther
Addressees
  • every person within the meaning of KRS 446.010 selling goods or services delineated in KRS 367.374(1)(b) (consumer food, medical supplies, emergency and building supplies, fuel, and others)
Functions reached
  • SF pricing of medical supplies, PPE and consumer goods
  • SC
  • CB
Collection
State corrections, emergency management and Guard AGY-ST-CORRECTIONS-EMA-GUARD

Operative words

1. No person, within the meaning of KRS 446.010, shall sell or offer to sell any good or service delineated in KRS 367.374(1)(b) at a price grossly in excess of the price prior to the declaration by Executive Order 2020-215 on March 6, 2020, that a Statewide State of Emergency exists in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. 2. The foregoing is subject to the qualifications and limitations set forth otherwise in KRS 367.372, et seq., with regard to increased cost to sellers inter alia. 3. Any person who violates the provisions of KRS 367.372, et seq., as implemented by this Order, shall be subject to the penalties set forth in KRS 367.378 or other applicable law.

Enforcement

KRS 367.378 (Attorney General enforcement; civil penalties)

Notes

KRS 367.374(1)(b) reaches medical supplies, emergency supplies and building materials; the order governed every seller in Kentucky through the six quarters.

Retrieval note

Recital: EO 2020-216 (Mar. 7, 2020) first 'implemented the provisions of KRS 367.372, et seq., as to the sale of goods and services, to prohibit price gouging.'.