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<br><br> <br>Page 1 of 1 <br>61.362 Agreement permitting peace officers to patrol private residential property <br>to enforce state and local traffic and motor vehicle laws. <br>(1) Any public police department, sheriff's office, or the Department of Kentucky State <br>Police may, upon written agreement with a residential property owner or a <br>residential property owners' association, patrol the roadways and parking lots of <br>private residential communities within the jurisdiction of the public police <br>department, sheriff's office, or the Department of Kentucky State Police and enforce <br>the traffic and motor vehicle laws of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and local <br>traffic and motor vehicle ordinances, on that residential private property. <br>(2) This section shall not permit a public police department, sheriff's office, or the <br>Department of Kentucky State Police to enforce the private rules or regulations of <br>the residential property owner. <br>(3) This section shall not limit any peace officer from coming on residential private <br>property for the enforcement of the law, provided that the entry upon residential <br>private property is consistent with the provisions of the Constitution of the United <br>States, the Constitution of Kentucky, the Kentucky Revised Statutes, and applicable <br>court decisions. <br>Effective: June 26, 2007 <br>History: Amended 2007 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 129, effective June 26, 2007. -- Created <br>1998 Ky. Acts ch. 587, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1998. <br><br>