149.540 County payments to statewide system -- Power to require owners to participate -- Adjustments in acreage. - Kentucky Statutes

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149.540 County payments to statewide system -- Power to require owners to 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 acre of
privately owned timberlands according to the most current United States Forest
Service Survey of Kentucky subject to additions and deductions of acreage since the
making of such study. Such payments shall be due and payable on September 15
following the assessment. (2) Contributions may be met out of the general funds of the county and in addition the fiscal court may require each owner of timberland in the county to participate
directly by paying into a special county forest fire protection fund an assessment not
exceeding three cents ($0.03) per year for each acre of timberland of which he is the
owner. (3) In any case in which the cabinet and the governing body of any county cannot agree upon the additions or deductions to privately owned forest acreage in a particular
county, or to changes in forest acreage from year to year, the question shall be
submitted to the judge of the Circuit Court of the county by a summary and
informal proceeding, and a decision of the judge, certified to the governing body
and to the cabinet respectively, shall be conclusive and final. Effective: July 15, 1982
History: Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 142, sec. 10, effective July 15, 1982. -- Amended 1976 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 14, sec. 161, effective January 2, 1978. --
Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 74, Art. III, sec. 13(3). -- Amended 1966 Ky. Acts
ch. 23, sec. 49. -- Created 1958 Ky. Acts ch. 139, sec. 4.