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Kentucky Criminal Law FAQs

• Q: Is It Illegal For An Hiv Positive Person To Donate Blood Or Organs?
  A: Kentucky Revised Statutes Annotated Section 311.990 provides that: Any person infected with HIV, knowing that he is infected and having been informed that he may communicate the infection by donating human organs, skin or tissues, who donates organs, skin or other human tissue is guilty of a class D felony.
• Q: Are There Harsher Penalties For A Prositute Who Has Hiv?
  A: Kentucky Revised Statutes Annotated Section 529.090 proivdes that: Any person who commits, offers, agrees to commit or procures another to commit prostitution by engaging in sexual activity in a manner likely to transmit HIV and who, prior to the commission of the crime, had tested positive for HIV and knew or had been informed that he had tested positive and that he could possibly communicate the disease to another through sexual activity is guilty of a class D felony.

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