2012 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 438 OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY
438.060 Contaminating watercourse.

Download as PDF 438.060 Contaminating watercourse. (1) (2) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section any person who places or causes to be placed in any stream, dam, pool or pond any substance that renders the water unfit for use or produces a stench shall be fined not less than ten dollars ($10) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100) and imprisoned for not less than thirty (30) days nor more than six (6) months. Any person who places the carcass of any beast in any watercourse or within twenty-five (25) yards of a watercourse, or casts it into any spring or pond shall be fined not less than five dollars ($5) nor more than twenty dollars ($20) for the first offense and for every subsequent offense not less than twenty dollars ($20) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100). Effective: October 1, 1942 History: Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 1253, 1278.