Date Revised: 01/10/2024
Youth camps in Kentucky are permitted by the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services Environmental Management Branch. Day, resident and primitive camps require permitting. Permits are issued and inspections carried out by local health departments. Camps must also meet food preparation and service standards, Kentucky building codes, federal flammability standards and more per Title 902 | Chapter 010 | Regulation 040 of the Kentucky Administrative Regulations.
Day Camps and Residential Camps:
Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Environmental Management Branch | Youth Camp Permits
- $20.00 each check
Driver History Records may be requested online, in person or by mail | Driver History Record and Clearance - DRIVE (ky.gov)
- $3.00
- $6.00 if accessing electronically
Covers all employees unless specifically exempt.
Exemptions: employees of legislative research commissions, state police, judicial support agencies, courts, or the state; employees of an organized nonprofit camp, religious, or nonprofit educational conference center that does not operate more than 7 months in a calendar year; bona fide executives, administrators, and professionals (includes computer-related professionals);
Learners, apprentices, the disabled, sheltered workshop employees, and students may be paid less than the minimum wage for a fixed period under certificates issued by the labor commissioner.
1½ times regular rate after 40-hour week. Covered employees who work 7 days in one week must be paid 1½ times the regular rate for work done on the 7th day.
Those employees exempt from the state minimum wage; Exemptions to 7th day requirement: those who cannot work more than 40 hours a week (employers may credit overtime paid under other laws or by contract against 7th day of overtime); those whose duties are mainly limited to directing or supervising other employees; those operating boats or other water transportation; and certain nurses.
Meal period: reasonable amount of time taken within 3-5 hours after start of shift; at least 30 minutes for minors under age 18 if working at least 5 hours.
Rest period: 10 minutes for every 4 hours worked (in addition to regularly scheduled meal period).
CO-OP students are exempt as long as they are enrolled in school and are receiving academic credit for the work performed. A co-op student who continues to work between school terms will not be exempt during those periods.
Details.
K.R.S. §§337.010(2)(a),337.050, 337.285, 337.355, 337.365, 339.270
