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2018 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 149 - FORESTRY
.375 Setting fire on own land regulated.

Universal Citation: KY Rev Stat § 149.375 (2018)
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149.375 Setting fire on own land regulated. It shall be unlawful, within or adjacent to timberland, for any person to set fire to, or to procure another to set fire to, any flammable material upon land owned or leased by him unless he previously shall have taken all reasonable care and precaution, by carefully clearing around the flammable material as necessary to prevent the escape or spread of fire to lands other than those owned or leased by him. It shall also be unlawful for any employee of any such owner or lessee of land to set fire to any flammable material, upon such land unless he shall have taken similar precautions to prevent the spread of such fire to any other land. All fires shall be attended until extinguished. Effective: July 15, 1998 History: Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 169, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 142, sec. 6, effective July 15, 1982. -- Amended 1966 Ky. Acts ch. 23, sec. 44. -- Created 1964 Ky. Acts ch. 158, sec. 4.
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