249.195 Thistle eradication on highway and utility rights-of-way.
All public utilities, the State Highway Department, the county judge/executive, railroads,
drainage districts, school districts, road districts, game preserves, and other public and
quasi-public corporations and every landowner in thistle eradication areas shall:
(1) Take action to control and eradicate Canada and nodding thistles and prevent their
regrowth and reinfestation on all lands, rights-of-way and easements owned,
occupied, or controlled by them;
(2) Employ methods of control and eradication and for the prevention of the regrowth
and reinfestation of thistles by April 15 of each year in those counties in the Central
Time Zone and by April 25 of each year in those counties in the Eastern Time Zone
as directed by the Commissioner of Agriculture or the county thistle control board;
and
(3) Comply with all orders, rules and regulations promulgated by the Commissioner of
Agriculture pursuant to KRS 249.183 to 249.195 and 249.991.
Effective: April 10, 1990
History: Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 433, sec. 2, effective April 10, 1990. -- Amended
1978 Ky. Acts ch. 384, sec. 383, effective June 17, 1978. -- Created 1968 Ky. Acts
ch. 11, sec. 7.
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