Title XII, Conservation and State Development

The state Department of Highways is authorized to purchase and erect warning signs along the roads and highways of this state advising the public of the provisions of subsection (1) of KRS 149.370 and the penalty for violation thereof.

damages. (1) If any forest fire shall originate as a result of the violation by any person of any provision of KRS 149.360 to 149.430, such person shall be, in addition to the penalty prescribed under KRS 149.991, liable to the state and to each county for the full amount of all …

As used in KRS 149.510 to 149.600, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) "Secretary" means the secretary for energy and environment; (2) "Cabinet" means the Energy and Environment Cabinet; (3) "Timberland" means any land which has enough timber or woody brush, standing or do…

(1) It shall be the duty of the cabinet to establish and maintain a statewide system of forest fire prevention, detection and suppression. (2) The cabinet shall formulate a plan and program subject to the approval of the secretary for energy and environment to extend forest fire …

participate -- Adjustments in acreage. (1) After January 1, 1959, all counties receiving state forest fire protection and all counties having received notice of the intended establishment of such service shall annually pay to the cabinet a sum equivalent to two cents ($0.02) per …

(1) If the county governing body requires the owners to participate, it shall determine the amount of the assessment for each acre, and shall order the assessment to be paid into the county treasury by the owners of all timberland located in the county. (2) It shall be the duty o…

The property valuation administrator shall include on the regular property tax roll an accurate record of the acreage of timberland listed in the name of each owner in the county.

(1) When the property tax rolls are delivered to the county clerk by the property valuation administrator, as required by law, the county clerk shall compute the assessment due the county from each owner of timberland in accordance with the rate fixed by the county governing body…

(1) The sheriff shall collect the assessment at the same time and in the same manner in which he or she collects the state and county ad valorem tax. He or she shall issue a receipt to the taxpayer, report to the county judge/executive, and make his or her annual and final settle…

A separate fund shall be maintained by the county treasurer to be known as the county forest fire protection fund. The assessments collected from each timberland owner, together with penalties, shall constitute the fund and it shall be used only for making payments to the cabinet…

(1) Any person aggrieved by a listing of any portion of his property as timberland by the property valuation administrator may file a protest with the county judge/executive, provided the protest is in writing and is made within thirty (30) days of receipt of notice of the listin…

The purpose of KRS 149.610 to 149.680 is to place in the Energy and Environment Cabinet, the authority and responsibility to control infestations or infections by insects or disease, which are hereby declared to be a public nuisance, in order to protect and preserve forest resour…

The secretary for energy and environment shall make surveys and investigations to determine the threat or presence of infestations and control of forest pests. For this purpose duly designated representatives of the secretary may enter at reasonable times on public and private la…

Whenever the secretary for energy and environment finds that any forest area is infested, threatened to be infested, infected, or threatened to be infected with insects or disease, he shall determine whether measures of control are needed and are available and the area over which…

The secretary for energy and environment may apply measures of infestation and infection control on public and private forests and other lands anywhere in the Commonwealth, to any trees, timber, plants or shrubs thereon harboring or which may harbor any insects or disease. The se…

The secretary for energy and environment is authorized to carry out control work on other adjacent or interior holdings, which, if uncontrolled, would cause a reinfestation or reinfection of the controlled area, and to contract with owners of land in the affected area relative to…

The secretary for energy and environment may cooperate with the federal government or agencies thereof, other agencies of the Commonwealth, county or municipal governments, agencies of neighboring states, or other public or private organizations, or individuals and may accept suc…

All moneys collected under the provisions of KRS 149.610 to 149.680, including such as may be contributed or paid by the federal government or any other public or private agency, organization or individual, shall be placed in the State Treasury to the credit of a revolving, trust…

The secretary for energy and environment is authorized as required by law, to employ necessary personnel, procure necessary equipment, supplies and services; to enter into contracts in the name of the secretary and to provide funds to any agency of the United States for work or s…

(1) Any person who violates subsection (2) of KRS 149.040 shall be fined not less than five hundred dollars ($500), or confined in jail for not less than thirty (30) nor more than one hundred (100) days, or both. (2) Any physically able resident of this state above the age of eig…

(1) Any person who violates any of the provisions of KRS 149.360 to 149.430 except KRS 149.380 shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500) or imprisoned for not more than six (6) months, or both such fine and imprisonment. (2)…