Title XXI, Agriculture and Animals

KRS 256.030 and 256.042 shall be cited as the Kentucky Boundary Line Fence Act.

livestock. If any livestock enter into any land over or through a lawful fence, the owner or manager of the livestock shall for the first trespass be liable to the owner or occupant of that land for damages to his or her trees, grass, grain, crops, livestock or land as he or she …

land. If the owner or bailee of livestock has a lawful fence, and his or her livestock break through or over the fence and upon the premises of another which are not enclosed by a lawful fence, he or she shall not be responsible for the first trespass, but shall be liable for all…

A railroad shall be on equal terms and obligations with other landowners owning adjoining lands in this state.

Except as otherwise provided in KRS 256.130, 256.160 and 256.170, every railroad shall construct and maintain a good lawful fence on one-half (1/2) of the distance of the division line between its right-of-way and the adjoining lands, and every owner of lands adjoining the right-…

(1) When a railroad or the owner of lands adjoining the railroad right-of-way constructs a good lawful fence on the division line between the right-of-way and the lands adjoining the right-of-way for one-half (1/2) the length of the line, and the other party has not constructed t…

When the owner of any lands, or any immediate or remote grantor or vendor of the owner, has given to a railroad, after February 25, 1893, a right-of-way through the lands free of charge, the entire fencing on the division lines between such lands and the right- of-way of the rail…

Any landowner who has already erected a lawful fence along the whole distance of the division line between his land and the right-of-way of a railroad may, in the absence of any agreement to the contrary, move one-half (1/2) of the fence, after giving three (3) months' notice to …

All railroads shall erect and maintain cattle guards at all terminal points of fences constructed along their lines, except at points where the lines are not required to be fenced on both sides, and at public crossings. Where there is a private passway across the railroad, the la…

KRS 256.100 to 256.170 shall not: (1) Apply in any case where any railroad has furnished the material to construct a fence or condemned its right-of-way, and paid the owner or his vendor damages, in the estimation of which the cost of fencing was taken into consideration; (2) App…

Where the lands or rights-of-way of two (2) railroads adjoin and run parallel with no tillable or grazing lands between their rights-of-way, the railroad need not build any fence along its side next to the other railroad, unless the other railroad has first built its half along t…

Any person who violates subsection (3) of KRS 256.120 shall be fined one dollar ($1) for each day, after the expiration of the time in which the fence should have been constructed, until the fence is constructed.