149.640 Control measures may be applied -- Agreements with landowners -- Cost. - Kentucky Statutes

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149.640 Control measures may be applied -- Agreements with landowners -- Cost. 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 secretary may enter into agreements with owners of
such lands covering the control work on their lands, and fix the pro rata basis on which
the cost of such work will be shared between the Commonwealth and said owner;
provided, that the failure of the secretary to offer an agreement to or execute an
agreement with any owner shall not impair the right of the secretary's representatives to
enter on the lands of said owner to conduct control operations. Effective: July 15, 2010
History: Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 170, effective July 15, 2010. -- Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 142, sec. 13, effective July 15, 1982. -- Created 1960 Ky. Acts
ch. 95, sec. 4, effective June 16, 1960.