Title VII, Public Property and Public Printing

To the maximum extent practicable all state agencies responsible for the maintenance of public lands in the Commonwealth shall do the following: (1) Compost on those public lands grass clippings, leaves, and other yard waste collected at state and local government facilities; (2)…

The Finance and Administration Cabinet shall institute civil proceedings in the name of the Commonwealth for any trespass or injury to state property under its control.

(1) The Secretary of State shall have custody of all records, judgments, deeds, maps and abstracts of title of land or buildings owned for governmental purposes by the state except deeds to rights-of-way for state or federal roads. In this section, "roads" does not include state-…

(1) Except as provided in KRS 177.060, 177.070 and 183.120, the Commonwealth shall be named as the grantee of any land given or devised to the state, or partly or wholly paid for out of state funds, and of any land or interest in land conveyed to it or for its use or for the use …

Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to provide for title examination and certification of land or interest in land paid for out of state funds. When any land or interest in land is to be paid for out of state funds, the Finance and Administration Cabinet, the Transportation…

recorded. When the state acquires title to any land or interest in land, as contemplated by KRS 56.020, by condemnation proceedings or through payment of damages for an injury to land, the Secretary of State shall be furnished a copy, certified by the clerk of the court, of the j…

(1) All deeds and judgments conveying to or from or vesting in or divesting the state of any land or interest in land shall be recorded in the office of the county clerk of the county where the land or the greater part of it lies. (2) In cases conveying to or vesting in the state…

(1) The cabinet shall cause an inspection to be made of all buildings owned, leased or operated by the Commonwealth for the presence of friable materials. If friable materials are found as a result of such inspection, the cabinet shall have samples of the friable materials analyz…

(1) As used in this section: (a) "Asset/liability commission" means the Kentucky Asset/Liability Commission established by KRS 56.861; (b) "Commission" means the State Property and Buildings Commission established by KRS 56.450; (c) "General fund" has the same meaning as in KRS 4…

As used in KRS 56.065 to 56.180, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) "Cabinet" means the Finance and Administration Cabinet; and (2) "Subject of risk" means any or all property reasonably considered to be subject to loss or damage by any single occurrence of any event insu…

insured through Commonwealth's property and casualty insurance fund -- Exceptions. (1) The cabinet shall: (a) Determine which state property shall be insured against loss by fire and other hazards; and (b) Insure with a responsible company or companies authorized to do business i…

Before July 1 of each year, the cabinet shall reconsider its appraisal and valuation of public buildings and personal property belonging to or under the control and use of the state or any state agency, and shall certify any changes in value to the agency that has the custody or …

Before July 1 of each year the cabinet shall fix, upon each public building and upon each class of personal property belonging to or controlled or used by the state or any agency of the state, the rate of premium that the cabinet deems to be the average rate charged by responsibl…

56.180. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, KRS Chapter 45A shall apply to insurance contracts entered into by the cabinet under KRS 56.065 to 56.180, except as provided in KRS 45A.022.

Limit on risk -- Certificate of terms and conditions. (1) (a) 1. Each fiscal year, the State Treasurer shall deduct from any funds in the Treasury payable to an agency for the care and maintenance of public buildings or property an amount equal to the premiums certified to him or…

In case any building or other property belonging to the state or a state agency is damaged by any of the perils insured against, except as otherwise provided in KRS 56.065 to 56.180, the agency having control or custody over the property shall within thirty (30) days certify the …

(1) (a) When the amount of damage has been determined, the State Treasurer shall debit the account of the Commonwealth's property and casualty insurance fund by that amount and credit with an equal amount the account of the agency that has control or custody of the property damag…

(1) If there is not in the account of the Commonwealth's property and casualty insurance fund an amount sufficient to cover the damage, the State Treasurer shall debit the fund only with the amount actually to its credit at the time, and shall continue, subject to prior claims, t…

(1) The State Treasurer, with approval of every investment by the cabinet, may invest the Commonwealth's property and casualty insurance fund in: (a) Obligations of the United States government, its agencies, and Kentucky cities of the first and home rule classes; (b) Warrants is…

(1) The cabinet and the State Treasurer may employ such assistance and incur such expenses as are necessary to carry out the purposes of KRS 56.065 to 56.180. (2) All such expenses may be debited against the Commonwealth's property and casualty insurance fund, and paid on warrant…

(1) (a) On and after March 31, 2025, until June 30, 2030, the Office of the Controller in the cabinet may contract with any responsible insurance or reinsurance company authorized to do business in Kentucky to reinsure any subject of risk of which the total valuation has been fix…

The cabinet shall annually have an inspection made of each building and its contents owned by the state or any agency thereof, for the purpose of determining the unnecessary causes of a fire hazard therein, and shall make recommendations to the agency having control or custody of…

(1) On and after March 31, 2025, until June 30, 2030, if at the end of any fiscal year the moneys and securities to the credit of the Commonwealth's property and casualty insurance fund exceed one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000), that excess shall be transferred to the gen…

requirements for new construction. (1) All state agencies shall comply with the requirements of the National Flood Insurance Program when constructing state buildings, structures, roads, or other facilities in a flood plain. (2) The Finance and Administration Cabinet shall issue …

patent. (1) Only vacant lands may be appropriated under KRS 56.200 to 56.240. Land that has escheated to the state, or has been forfeited for failure to list it for taxation or for nonpayment of taxes, or has been legally and validly patented before, is not vacant land. (2) Every…

An actual settler on any vacant and unappropriated land has a preemption right to any number of acres, not exceeding one hundred (100), to be laid-off as nearly as possible in a square, his improvements in the center. Before any other person shall locate the same land, three (3) …

Any person who wishes to appropriate any vacant and unappropriated land may, by applying to the county judge/executive of the county in which the land lies, and paying therefor a price fixed by the fiscal court at not less than five dollars ($5) per hundred (100) acres, obtain an…

All that portion of the bed of the Ohio River, lying north of the thread of the stream, except accretions to islands privately owned, is declared to be vacant and unappropriated land, and the county judge/executive of each county bordering on the Ohio River may use or lease the r…

(1) The surveyor shall survey the entries in the order in which they are made, bounding each entry by plainly marked trees, stones or stakes, noting where it binds on a watercourse or the marked line of another survey, and giving names. The survey shall be made in the presence of…

Before the surveyor permits the entry of any land for survey and patent, and before he surveys any land for the purpose of obtaining a patent thereon, he shall require the party desiring the entry and survey made to file with him an affidavit to the effect that the land has not, …

(1) If any person obtains a survey of land to which another claims a better right, such other may enter a caveat with the register to prevent the issuing of a grant until the right be determined. The caveat shall state the plaintiff's claim and the reasons why the grant should no…

No person shall knowingly enter or have surveyed for patent, and no surveyor shall knowingly survey or certify for patent, any land that has previously, in whole or part, been entered or surveyed for patent, or patented.

Plats and certificates of survey shall not be recorded, but the Secretary of State shall carefully preserve and systematically arrange them in his office, and keep a full and complete index of them.

The Secretary of State shall deliver to the owner any land warrant in his office only partially appropriated, with an indorsement showing how much remains to be appropriated.

(1) The Secretary of State shall supply upon his records the omission of the Governor's name from a patent, when the original patent, with the Governor's signature thereto, is produced to him, showing the omission, or when it appears from official indorsements on papers in the Of…

The words "A copy attest" are sufficient authentication of any record or paper in the land office, when signed by the officer in charge of the land office or his deputy.

The Secretary of State shall collect the following fees for services in connection with the land office: (1) For filing of a caveat .......................................................................................... $0.25 (2) Judgment in cases of caveat, mandamus or other …

The Secretary of State shall report to the Governor, on or before October 10 of each year, the number of patents issued and copies supplied, and the amount of fees received therefor and paid into the State Treasury. He shall take the Treasurer's receipt for the fees, and publish …

The Secretary of State shall not allow any of the books or papers of the land office to pass into the hands of any unauthorized person or permit anyone but his deputies to have access thereto.

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Commission" means the State Property and Buildings Commission; (2) "Real estate" includes lands together with improvements thereon and appurtenances thereto; (3) "Building" includes any structure or improvement …

(1) There is recognized, as an independent agency of the state within the meaning of KRS Chapter 12, and as a constituted authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, a state and a sovereign entity within the meaning of regulations of the United States Department of the Treasury, I…

The commission shall transfer to the cabinet any appropriation which may be made to it, to be expended for the purpose of acquiring real estate and for building projects for any state agency, and for matching federal funds available under 42 U.S.C. ch. 6A, subch. IV (secs. 291 et…

The cabinet shall maintain the records and perform the functions necessary and proper to accomplish the purposes of this chapter.

estate. The cabinet shall have the power and duty: (1) To determine the comparative needs and demands of the various state agencies for acquiring real estate and for building projects; (2) To purchase or otherwise acquire all real property determined to be needed for state use an…

In any case where the real property that is proposed to be sold pursuant to KRS 56.463 is in the custody of a state agency, the cabinet may submit to such agency a general description of the intended use of the land, along with such detailed information as the agency may require,…

The commission shall exercise the powers prescribed by KRS 162.520, 162.540, 162.550, 162.580, 162.590, 162.600, and 162.620 for the purpose of assisting boards of education of any county or independent school district in financing public school building projects and undertakings…

No state agency shall acquire any real property without first meeting the approval of the cabinet. The cabinet may approve, modify, or disapprove the proposed acquisition of real estate, and the finding of the cabinet shall be final, except in cases where the issuance and sale of…

estimates. The cabinet may appoint qualified licensed engineers and qualified graduate engineers may be appointed for a period not to exceed one (1) year without obtaining a license, who shall perform duties delegated to them from time to time by the secretary of the Finance and …

(1) No state agency shall have power or authority to make plans and specifications, provide public notice of invitations for bids, let contracts, or incur any financing commitments, either in the way of a charge against public funds or in the way of negotiations for issuance of r…

The boards of regents of the respective state universities and the Kentucky Community and Technical College System and the board of trustees of the University of Kentucky may issue, under the provisions of KRS 162.340 to 162.380, consolidated educational building revenue bonds or…