Kentucky Revised Statutes Title III. Executive Branch § 18A.228.“State employee” defined

For purposes of KRS 18A.228 to 18A.2286, the term “state employee” shall mean a person, including an elected public official, who is regularly employed by any department, board, agency, or branch of state, municipal, urban-county, charter county, or county government, and who is a contributing member of any of the retirement systems administered by the state and including any federally-funded time-limited employee. It shall also include a person who must fulfill the requirements established by the State Board of Education for eligibility and a person who is a present or future recipient of a retirement allowance from any of the Kentucky Retirement Systems who either satisfies the requirements of KRS 61.559 or who is board-authorized under KRS 61.702(1), including a beneficiary of a retired employee as defined in KRS 61.542 who is receiving a retirement allowance from any of the Kentucky Retirement Systems and shall include a member of the Legislators' Retirement Plan as provided in KRS 18A.2287.