Section 211.470 - Definitions for KRS 211.470 to 211.478As used in KRS 211.470 to 211.478:
(1) "Board" means the Traumatic Brain Injury Trust Fund Board created pursuant to KRS 211.472;(2) "Cabinet" means the Cabinet for Health and Family Services;(3) "Traumatic brain injury" means a partial or total disability caused by injury to the central nervous system from physical trauma, damage to the central nervous system from anoxia, hypoxic episodes, allergic conditions, toxic substances, or other acute medical clinical incidents resulting in impaired cognitive abilities or impaired physical functioning. "Traumatic brain injury" does not include:(a) Strokes that can be treated in nursing facilities providing routine rehabilitation services;(b) Spinal cord injuries for which there are no known or obvious injuries to the intracranial central nervous system;(c) Progressive dementias and other mentally impairing conditions;(d) Depression and psychiatric disorders in which there is no known or obvious central nervous system damage;(e) An intellectual disability and birth defect related disorders of long standing nature; or(f) Neurological degenerative, metabolic, and other medical conditions of a chronic, degenerative nature; and(4) "Trust fund" means the traumatic brain injury trust fund created pursuant to KRS 211.476.Amended by 2012 Ky. Acts ch. 146,§ 99, eff. 7/11/2012. Amended 2005, Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 359, effective 6/20/2005. -- Amended 2000, Ky. Acts ch. 124, sec. 1, effective 7/14/2000. -- Created 1998, Ky. Acts ch. 124, sec. 1, effective 7/15/1998.