Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, March 1, 2024
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY:
KRS
39F.180(2)(e) requires the
duty officer of the Division of Emergency Management to provide notice to the
Transportation Cabinet of certain missing persons in order to carry out prompt
publication by message boards on all interstates and parkways in the
Commonwealth of Kentucky.
KRS
39F.180(6) requires the
Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations relating to
reporting requirements from the Division of Emergency Management to the
Transportation Cabinet. This administrative regulation establishes the
requirements to request the use of interstate and parkway signs related to
missing persons.
Section 1.
Definitions.
(1) "Duty officer" means an
officer on duty at the Division of Emergency Management, Emergency
Communications Information Center or ECIC, at the time the notice of missing
person is received.
(2) "Missing
person" means a person missing, lost, or overdue as established in
KRS
39F.180(1) and
(2).
(3) "Missing person report" means, pursuant
to
KRS
39F.180(2)(a) through (d), a
written or electronic report containing information to appropriately identify
the missing person if the person is seen or discovered by a third
party.
(4) "Notice" means
information provided at the point in time a local search and rescue coordinator
contacts the Division of Emergency Management with a request and required
information to establish the basis for a missing person report.
Section 2. Reporting Requirements.
(1) As established in
KRS
39F.180(2)(a) through (d),
the missing person report shall contain the name, age, gender, county last
seen, and how traveling. If the traveling method is by automobile, the report
shall include, if available, license plate, year, make, model, and color of
automobile. Other known information that may be reasonably calculated to assist
in the rescue effort shall also be noted in the report.
(2) Request shall be by and through a local
search and rescue coordinator as established by
KRS
39F.200, the county emergency management
agency as defined in
KRS
39A.020(16), Kentucky State
Police, or local law enforcement.
(3) If the local search and rescue
coordinator makes a request of a duty officer of the Division of Emergency
Management and fails to provide information required by this administration,
the request shall be considered insufficient notice to the duty officer of the
Division of Emergency Management, and the duty officer shall not notify the
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet.
(4) Upon receipt of a request, the duty
officer shall contact the Transportation Cabinet if the local search and rescue
coordinator determines pursuant to
KRS
39F.180 that at any time during a search the
use of electronic highway signs will aid in the search and is in the best
interest of the missing person. Electronic highway signs that may be utilized
shall include those located on the interstates and parkways.
(5) Upon request by a duty officer, the
Transportation Cabinet shall publish information on available message boards
permanently located on both interstates and parkways.
(6) Message options for interstate message
boards may include:
(a) Option 1 " Interstate
message board; or
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(b)
Option 2 " Interstate message board.
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(7) Messages for parkway message boards may
be formatted as in this example:
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(8)
The missing person message shall be discontinued by the Transportation Cabinet:
(a) Upon notice to the cabinet that the
missing person has been found;
(b)
Upon notice to the cabinet that an AMBER alert or other higher priority
incident has been issued;
(c) Upon
notice to the cabinet that a subsequent missing person notice has been issued
for either a new notice for the same missing person or a new notice for a new
missing person; or
(d) If the
County search and rescue coordinator provides no further update to the cabinet
after a period of four (4) hours.
