Title XV, Roads, Waterways, and Aviation

recommended six (6) year road plan that identifies individual transportation projects -- Proposed biennial highway construction plan -- Factors to be considered in development of each project -- Monthly transmission of project data to General Assembly -- Cabinet may expend funds …

bridge related projects in each fiscal year -- Bidding process and basis of selection for projects -- Annual report to Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue. (1) (a) Notwithstanding any conflicting provisions of this chapter and KRS Chapters 45A and 177, each fisc…

contingency account. (1) The department shall transmit, on a quarterly basis, electronic data to the General Assembly through the Legislative Research Commission giving a fiscal-year-to-date funding status report on the highway construction contingency account established under K…

The Transportation Cabinet shall create a new funding code to be used in the six (6) year road plan to be known as state contingency funds and the abbreviation the cabinet shall use for this funding code shall be SC. The state contingency funding code shall be in addition to all …

legislator desires in six year road plan. The state highway engineer shall provide a cost estimate for any project that a member of the General Assembly desires to be considered for advancement or inclusion in the six (6) year road plan.

-- Reimbursement for expenses. (1) The Mississippi River Parkway Commission of Kentucky is hereby established to serve as the local coordinating agency for the development of the Great River Road along the Mississippi River from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. The commission shall …

(1) The Motorcycle Advisory Commission for Highway Safety is established as an advisory body to assist the Transportation Cabinet in ensuring that highway design, construction, and maintenance policies and procedures consider the specific needs of motorcyclists. (2) The commissio…

(1) The Motorcycle Advisory Commission for Highway Safety shall be composed of seven (7) members, appointed as follows: (a) One (1) representative of the Office of Project Delivery and Preservation within the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet's Department of Highways, appointed by …

regulations. (1) The Transportation Cabinet shall establish a motorcycle safety education program. The program shall provide for instructor training courses, instructor approval, and rider training courses for novice riders that shall be held at locations accessible to Kentucky r…

permit or operator's license. (1) The motorcycle safety education program shall offer motorcycle rider training courses designed to develop and instill the knowledge, attitudes, habits, and skills necessary for the proper operation of a motorcycle. The courses shall be taught by …

Review of status every two years. (1) The cabinet shall approve instructors for the motorcycle rider training courses. A person shall not be approved as an instructor unless the person meets the requirements of this section and administrative regulations of the cabinet and holds …

(1) The cabinet may enter into contracts with public or private entities for course delivery and for the provision of services or materials necessary for implementation of the program. (2) The cabinet may offer motorcycle rider training courses directly and may approve courses of…

(1) The motorcycle safety education program fund is established as a restricted fund in the State Treasury. Moneys in the fund are hereby appropriated for the purposes set forth in KRS 176.5061 to 176.5069. Moneys in the fund shall be utilized to provide motorcycle training cours…

The Transportation Cabinet shall report monthly to the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue on the revenues deposited into the motorcycle safety education program fund, the expenditures incurred, and the available balance in the fund. In addition, the cabinet sha…

Meetings -- Commission attached to Office of Highway Safety within the Department of Highways for administrative purposes. (1) The Motorcycle Safety Education Commission is established as an independent body to help foster the growth and development of the motorcycle safety educa…

The Motorcycle Safety Education Commission shall have the following responsibilities: (1) Approve any administrative regulation relating to the motorcycle safety education program promulgated by the cabinet prior to the administrative regulation being filed with the Legislative R…

Commission and available for public review. The cabinet shall prepare an annual report on the program to be submitted to the Governor and the Legislative Research Commission and made available to the public for review during the cabinet's normal business hours. The report shall i…

Waste sites identified in KRS 176.050 shall be on property owned by the state or a city, county, or other governmental agency and have the potential to be turned into industrial parks under the provisions of KRS 176.050.

- Deeding of site to local government -- Consultation with local government officials in site identification. (1) During the construction phase of a new road construction project, potential industrial park sites identified during the design phase shall be used as waste sites by t…

(1) Any person who violates the provisions of KRS 176.122 to 176.128 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500). Each day in which work is performed or materials furnished …

(1) Any person who willfully burns, defaces or destroys a covered bridge designated as a state shrine by the Kentucky Heritage Commission or by the heritage division shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500) or confined in the county jail for not less than thirty (…

As used in KRS 177.010 to 177.890, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Department" means Department of Highways of the Commonwealth of Kentucky; (2) "Construct" includes reconstruct and improve; (3) "Roads" includes rural roads; highways; bridges and bridge approaches; ci…

Highways -- Notice to fiscal court and affected citizens -- Rural secondary road system -- Maintenance -- Administrative regulations. (1) The state primary road system shall consist of such public roads and city streets within the state as the Department of Highways determines sh…

cities. The Department of Highways is authorized to acquire and bear the cost of new or additional rights-of-way needed for establishment, improvement, construction, reconstruction, maintenance or repair of a public road or a city street which has been designated by the Departmen…

county judge/executive. The provisions of KRS 67.078 and 67.710 notwithstanding, a county judge/executive may order county plows to remove snow from any state road the plow must travel on to reach a county road to be cleared. The county judge/executive shall not be required to de…

The cost of construction of the primary roads shall be borne entirely by the state, or by the state and federal government, where the roads are built in cooperation, and they shall be maintained entirely by the state, but any county, municipality or person may make donations to t…

appliances to be borne by department -- Conditions. (1) (a) If the department determines that it is necessary for any fireplugs, pipes, mains, conduits, cables, wires, towers, poles, and other equipment and appliances, belonging to any municipality or a municipally owned utility,…

unincorporated urban place. (1) The Department of Highways may install and maintain signs recognizing the boundary of a city, town, or community whether incorporated or unincorporated. These signs shall be installed regardless of whether the community has a post office, if the De…

Statement to city. The commissioner of highways on and after July 1, 1942, may designate such city streets or portions thereof, including viaducts and bridges, as in his discretion are connecting links of state or federal maintained highways or that he may in his discretion deter…

On and after July 1, 1942, the Department of Highways may maintain and repair, construct and reconstruct under its control and supervision such city streets so designated by the commissioner of highways, and may make appropriations and expenditures out of its fund for such purpos…

streets. Any city or person who enters upon such designated city connecting link streets or rights of way thereof, for the purpose of laying conduits, pipes, poles or wires therein, thereon or thereunder or makes any obstruction thereon or any excavation thereunder, which necessi…

If any county desires to construct any part of a public road before the state is prepared to construct it, such county shall ask the department for permission to do so. When such request is made the department shall immediately investigate the request, and if they find that the c…

(1) An incorporated area or unincorporated urban place may elect, with the concurrence of the Department of Highways, to construct, reconstruct, or maintain urban roads and streets which are included in the Department of Highways' state primary road system and are maintained by t…

school facility. A local school district shall not purchase property for the construction of any school facility until the district consults with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, Department of Highways, Frankfort Office, to determine if the property to be purchased currently …

(1) Except as otherwise provided in this section and in KRS 177.070, all cost of acquiring any necessary land or right-of-way for primary road purposes and all damages incurred shall be paid by the county. (2) Temporary rights-of-way and private surfaced roads, other than those o…

The United States Route 431 from the junction of the Wendell H. Ford Western Kentucky Parkway to the Kentucky and Tennessee border shall be designated as part of the National Truck Network established pursuant to the federal Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982.

(1) Except as provided in subsection (2), the department may agree with any landowner as to the value of a right-of-way and if the agreement is approved by the county attorney the fiscal court shall enter an order directing the payment of the amount agreed upon to the landowner, …

(1) As used in this section: (a) "Local government" means: 1. Any city organized and governed under KRS Chapter 83 or 83A; 2. Any urban-county government organized and governed under KRS Chapter 67A; 3. Any consolidated local government organized and governed under KRS Chapter 67…

The Department of Highways shall erect within six hundred and sixty (660) feet of the right-of-way of any interstate, limited access highway, federal-aid primary highway, or turnpikes official directional signs and notices pertaining to publicly and privately owned natural wonder…

As used in KRS 177.0734 and 177.0736, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) "Fully controlled access highways" means highways, limited to interstate and state parkways, that shall give preference to through traffic, shall have access only at selected public roads or streets,…

The commissioner of the Department of Highways shall promulgate administrative regulations, pursuant to KRS Chapter 13A, to provide for the erection of specific service signs on fully controlled access highways or at interchanges on partially controlled access highways. The admin…

(1) Any camping facility that has been authorized by the commissioner of the Department of Highways to attach its logo sign to the face of a specific service sign erected on a fully controlled access highway, pursuant to the Federal Highway Administration's Manual on Uniform Traf…

eligible to obtain specific service highway signs. All statutes to the contrary notwithstanding, the Transportation Cabinet shall amend its policies and administrative regulations in effect on June 24, 2003, governing highway signage, to include bed and breakfast establishments, …

(1) Every road which is part of the state primary system shall be identified by a specific route number. In addition to a route number, the secretary shall direct the placement of signage denoting the honorary naming of a bridge, a road, or a road segment to comply with the provi…

The Hillsboro Covered Bridge in Fleming County is renamed and designated the "Grange City Covered Bridge."

As used in KRS 177.076 to 177.079, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) "Historical site" means a cultural or educational site that is officially listed in the National Register of Historical Places; (2) "Fully controlled access highway" means a limited access highway, an i…

for approval -- Hearings -- Effect on pre-existing signs. (1) No later than February 1, 1999, the commissioner of the Department of Highways shall establish standards, procedures, and forms for the making and approval of applications for a limited supplemental guide sign by the p…

(1) An application from an historical site or from a tourist area or attraction for the erection of a limited supplemental guide sign shall be made to the commissioner of the Department of Highways. The application shall include, but not be limited to: (a) Evidence that demonstra…

experimental usage of signs. Pursuant to the requirements of the MUTCD Section 1A-6, the commissioner of the Department of Highways shall apply to the Federal Highway Administration, by no later than February 1, 1999, for permission to experiment with a new usage of post-intercha…

Title to property -- Conclusiveness of official order -- Duty of department to clear and maintain property. (1) The Commonwealth of Kentucky, Department of Highways, when it has, by official order, designated the route, location, or relocation of a highway, limited access highway…