2016 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 280 - PRIVATE TOLL BRIDGES AND FERRIES
.240 County judge/executive to prescribe number and kind of boats and number of hands.

Download as PDF 280.240 County judge/executive to prescribe number and kind of boats and number of hands. At the time of granting any ferry privilege, the county judge/executive shall prescribe the number and kind of boats to be kept, the number of hands to be employed, and how the boats shall be propelled, and may, once in each year thereafter, change the same, after notice to the person granted the privilege. Where the rapidity of the current does not require the ferry boat to be propelled by poles, the court shall prescribe that the boat shall have a substantial railing at least two (2) feet high on its sides. Effective: June 17, 1978 History: Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 384, sec. 460, effective June 17, 1978. -Amended 1976 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 14, sec. 263, effective January 2, 1978. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 1809.