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KRE 201 JUDICIAL
NOTICE OF ADJUDICATIVE FACTS
(a) Scope of rule. This rule governs only judicial notice of
adjudicative facts.
(b) Kinds of facts. A judicially noticed fact must be one not
subject to reasonable dispute in that it is either:
(1) Generally known within the county from which the jurors are
drawn, or, in a nonjury matter, the county in which the venue of the
action is fixed; or
(2) Capable of accurate and ready determination by resort to sources
whose accuracy cannot reasonably be questioned.
(c) When discretionary. A court may take judicial notice, whether
requested or not.
(d) When mandatory. A court shall take judicial notice if requested
by a party and supplied with the necessary information.
(e) Opportunity to be heard. A party is entitled upon timely request
to an opportunity to be heard as to the propriety of taking judicial
notice and the tenor of the matter noticed. In the absence of prior
notification, the request may be made after judicial notice has been
taken.
(f) Time of taking notice. Judicial notice may be taken at any stage
of the proceeding.
(g) Instructing the jury. The court shall instruct the jury to
accept as conclusive any fact judicially noticed.
1992 c 324,
section 34, eff. 7-1-92; 1990 c 88, section 8
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