.770   Willfully removing or damaging boundary marker.


433.770 Willfully removing or damaging boundary marker.
(1)
Any person who fraudulently and willfully removes, defaces, cuts down, or destroys
a cornertree, post, cornerstone, or any monument erected to designate the boundary
of this state, or of any county or city, or the boundary of any tract or lot of land,
shall be guilty of a Class D felony and shall cause the marker, at his or her own
expense, to be reestablished by a professional land surveyor.
(2)
Any person who willfully and knowingly, but without a felonious intent, removes,
defaces, cuts down, or destroys a tree, post, stone, or any monument erected to
designate the boundaries of this state or of any county or city, or the boundaries of
any tract or lot of land, shall cause the marker, at his or her own expense, to be
reestablished by a professional land surveyor.
Effective: January 1, 1999
History: Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 214, sec. 42, effective January 1, 1999. --
Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 463, sec. 46, effective July 14, 1992. -- Recodified 1942
Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 1228, 1256.