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2019 Kentucky Revised Statutes
Chapter 269 - Miscellaneous provisions as to ditches, drainage, and reclamation
269.070 County may drain land -- Payment of cost -- Acquisition of necessary land.

Universal Citation: KY Rev Stat § 269.070 (2019)
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269.070 County may drain land -- Payment of cost -- Acquisition of necessary land. Any county may remove any ponds, pools, or swamp marshes, or reclaim swamp land that may cause sickness in the county, by ditching, leveeing, or cleaning out logs and brush that may cause any creek to scatter or form pools of stagnant water. The cost shall be paid for out of the county levy or by taxation of the property in the county subject to taxation for state purposes. When the fiscal court undertakes such a project, it may acquire for the county by contract or condemnation any land necessary to carry out the project. If condemnation proceedings are necessary, they shall be conducted in the manner provided in the Eminent Domain Act of Kentucky. Effective: October 1, 1942 History: Amended 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 140, sec. 106. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 2413.
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