Title I, Sovereignty and Jurisdiction of the Commonwealth

It is the intent of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky that KRS 1.020 shall not eliminate the existing methods of describing points on, within, or above the surface of the earth, as in metes and bounds or, in western Kentucky, the public land system, but rather …

(1) The Kentucky State Plane Coordinate System, which is hereby adopted, means a system of plane coordinates which have been established by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, through its National Geodetic Survey, for defining and stating the geographic positions…

The boundary with Virginia and West Virginia begins at the point where the Carolina, now Tennessee, line crosses the top of the Cumberland Mountain, near Cumberland Gap; thence it runs northeastwardly along the top, or highest part of the said Cumberland Mountain, keeping between…

(1) The boundary with Indiana begins at the point on the Ohio River common to the boundary lines for the States of Ohio, Indiana, and the Commonwealth of Kentucky, thence southwesterly, along the boundary line common to the States of Indiana and Kentucky, the boundary line being …

The boundary with Missouri runs down the middle of the Mississippi River, from a point where a line extended from the low water mark on the northwestern bank of the Ohio River intersects the middle of the Mississippi, to a point where the Kentucky-Tennessee line intersects the mi…

The boundary with Tennessee begins at a point in the middle of the Mississippi River near Compromise, Kentucky, in latitude 36 deg. 29 min. 57 sec. .7, and runs S. 89 deg. 15 min. 18 sec. E.--passing a large set rock at station 0+456, and passing a small set rock at station 12+84…