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2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 262 SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION
262.350 Land-use regulations, what they may include.
Download pdfregulations governing the use of lands within the district in the interest of
conserving soil and soil resources and preventing and controlling soil erosion. The
board may conduct such public meetings and public hearings upon tentative
regulations as may be necessary to assist it in this work. (2) Land-use regulations may include: (a) Requirements for the carrying out of necessary engineering operations, including the construction of terraces, terrace outlets, check dams, dikes,
ponds, ditches and other necessary structures; (b) Requirements for the observance of particular methods of cultivation, including contour cultivating, contour furrowing, lister furrowing, sowing,
planting, strip cropping, seeding and planting of lands to water-conserving and
erosion-preventing plants, trees and grasses, forestation and reforestation; (c) Specifications of cropping programs and tillage practices to be observed;
(d) Requirements for the retirement from cultivation of highly erosive areas or of areas on which erosion may not be adequately controlled if cultivation is
carried on; and (e) Provisions for such other measures and programs as may assist conservation of soil resources and prevent or control soil erosion in the district, with regard
to KRS 262.020. Effective: October 1, 1942
History: Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 42i-9.
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