(1) After an engineering and traffic investigation and the receipt of recommendations by the county road engineer, a county through road or a portion thereof established or maintained as provided in KRS § 178.330 may be detached from the county through road system. The fiscal court or the consolidated local government shall cause the proposed deletion to be marked on a map to be deposited with county road engineer and to be open to public inspection. The same procedure set forth in KRS
178.330 for the establishment or maintenance of a county through road system shall be followed in the case of roads or portions of roads detached therefrom. Notice of the proposed deletion from the system shall conform to KRS § 424.130(1)(b). The fiscal court or the consolidated local government may in its discretion detach or retain the road as a part of the county through road system. The decisions of the fiscal court or the consolidated local government made in accordance with this section shall be final. Whenever any county through road has been added or detached from the county through road system in accordance with KRS § 178.330 to

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Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 178.337

  • City: includes town. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.

178.337, the county road engineer shall accordingly amend the map of the county through road system, which map shall at all times be available for public inspection in the office of the county road engineer. Nothing herein shall be construed as automatically deleting from the county through road system any portion of the system in territory which becomes incorporated as a city or which becomes annexed to a city.
(2) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to take from the jurisdiction or control of the legislative body of any incorporated city or consolidated local government, any road, bridge, landing, or wharf, or any other thing exclusively under the jurisdiction or control of such city or a consolidated local government. Provided, however, that roads within a city in a county containing a city of the first class or a consolidated local government may be made a part of the county through road system, in accordance with KRS § 178.330 or 178.333, or both, with the agreement of the legislative body of said city.
(3) Nothing in this chapter shall prevent any fiscal court or a consolidated local government from acquiring land by gift for public purposes.
Effective: January 1, 2015
History: Amended 2014 Ky. Acts ch. 92, sec. 251, effective January 1, 2015. — Amended 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 346, sec. 188, effective July 15, 2002. — Amended 1978
Ky. Acts ch. 384, sec. 313, effective June 17, 1978. — Created 1964 Ky. Acts ch. 80, sec. 3.