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2012 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 96 UTILITIES IN CITIES
96.070 Fourth-class city may grant rights-of-way to utilities -- Conditions.


KY Rev Stat § 96.070 (2012) What's This?

Download as PDF 96.070 Fourth-class city may grant rights-of-way to utilities -- Conditions. The legislative body of any city of the fourth class may grant rights-of-way over the public streets or public grounds of the city to any utility company, on such conditions as seem proper, shall have a supervising control over the use of same, and shall regulate the speed of cars and signals and fare on street cars. The legislative body may compel any railroad company to erect and maintain gates at street crossings and prevent railroads from obstructing public ways of the city, and fix penalties for the violation of these provisions. Nothing in this section shall prevent any property owner whose property abuts on a street on which a railroad is granted a right-of-way from recovering from the railroad any damage done to his property by the occupation or use of the street by the railroad. Effective: July 15, 1980 History: Amended 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 188, sec. 92, effective July 15, 1980. -Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 3490-25.

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