The corporation may extend its ditches, make other ditches, connect with any creek or stream and straighten or cut across any curve to facilitate drainage, and, when necessary, take the lands of private persons. The corporation is vested with the right and power of eminent domain for the condemnation of land that may be necessary, which remedy shall be pursued as provided by the Eminent Domain Act of Kentucky, the proceedings to be brought by the corporation in the Circuit Court, providing due compensation to the owners of land.
Effective: January 2, 1978

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Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 269.210

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Corporation: may extend and be applied to any corporation, company, partnership, joint stock company, or association. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010

History: Amended 1976 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 14, sec. 258, effective January
2, 1978. — Amended 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 140, sec. 107. — Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 2417a-14.