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2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 269 MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS AS TO DITCHES, DRAINAGE, AND RECLAMATION
269.210 Powers of corporation as to ditches -- Condemnation of property.
Download pdfstream and straighten or cut across any curve to facilitate drainage, and, when necessary,
take the lands of private persons. The corporation is vested with the right and power of
eminent domain for the condemnation of land that may be necessary, which remedy shall
be pursued as provided by the Eminent Domain Act of Kentucky, the proceedings to be
brought by the corporation in the Circuit Court, providing due compensation to the
owners of land. Effective: January 2, 1978
History: Amended 1976 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 14, sec. 258, effective January 2, 1978. -- Amended 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 140, sec. 107. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts
ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 2417a-14.
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