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2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 249 TREES, PLANTS, WEEDS, AND PESTS
249.190 Entry and cutting of thistles on failure of landholder -- Exemption.
Download pdfof Agriculture pursuant to subsection (2) of KRS 249.183, shall give fifteen (15)
days' notice in writing to the person who holds the land, to cut and destroy the
Canada or nodding thistles. On the neglect or refusal of the person who holds the
land to cut and destroy them at the end of fifteen (15) days, the Commissioner of
Agriculture may enter upon or hire other persons to enter upon the land and cut
down and destroy the Canada or nodding thistles. The Commissioner of Agriculture
may recover from the person who holds the land the reasonable costs of the
eradication. (2) Land on which conventional farm machinery cannot be safely operated shall be exempt from this section. Effective: April 10, 1990
History: Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 433, sec. 1, effective April 10, 1990. -- Amended 1968 Ky. Acts ch. 11, sec. 8. -- Amended 1956 Ky. Acts ch. 247, sec. 1. --
Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat.
sec. 201.
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