§ 178.010 Definitions — Construction of chapter — Minimum requirement for gift
§ 178.020 Roads, bridges, and landings continued — Removal from through road system
§ 178.025 Road presumed established — Presumption of width and area of public road right-of-way
§ 178.030 Transfers from state to county
§ 178.040 Change in width of county road or right-of-way — Minimum width of right-of-way — Acquisition of right-of-way
§ 178.050 Notice and advertisement of establishment, alteration or discontinuance, and of letting of contracts
§ 178.060 Changes in location of county road
§ 178.070 Discontinuance of county roads
§ 178.080 Establishment and alteration of public roads, bridges and landings, upon petition
§ 178.090 Conditions may be imposed upon petitioner
§ 178.100 Action to contest decision of fiscal court
§ 178.110 Condemnation of right-of-way — Temporary roads
§ 178.115 Power of fiscal court to open, establish or alter road — Procedure — Appeal
§ 178.116 Discontinuance of a road
§ 178.117 Private improvement of public road in unincorporated territory — When permitted — Procedure
§ 178.120 Condemnation of land by fiscal court
§ 178.125 Condemnation of additional land adjacent to existing road — Procedure
§ 178.140 Awarding of contracts — Rejection of bids
§ 178.150 Department of Highways to render assistance in certain cases
§ 178.170 Bonds for hard surface roads — Issuance
§ 178.180 Commissioners may be appointed to handle proceeds of bonds
§ 178.190 Duties of commissioners — Supervision
§ 178.200 Tax levy to retire bonds and pay interest
§ 178.210 Special tax for construction of roads — Submission to vote — Short-term bonds
§ 178.220 Vote on special tax — Form of question
§ 178.230 Collection of special tax — Sheriff’s fee
§ 178.240 Advertisement of special tax election — Conduct of election
§ 178.250 Joint bridges and roads between counties
§ 178.260 Contracts for work on joint bridges and roads
§ 178.270 Costs of joint roads and bridges
§ 178.290 Construction of sidewalks along public roads — School bus turn-around areas
§ 178.300 Road passing over or obstructed by dam
§ 178.310 County roads taken for railroad purposes — Correction of unsafe conditions
§ 178.320 Title to rights-of-way and records of discontinued roads to be filed in county clerk’s office
§ 178.330 County through road system for county containing city of first class or consolidated local government — Establishment — Effect
§ 178.333 Addition of roads to through road system for county containing city of first class or consolidated local government — New roads — Relocation
§ 178.337 Removal of road from system — When city streets in system
§ 178.350 Application of KRS 178.350 to 178.385 limited to counties containing city of first class or consolidated local government
§ 178.355 Procedure for ordering elimination of grade crossings or change of existing overhead or underpass structure crossing county road
§ 178.360 Grade separation of proposed railroad and county road crossings
§ 178.365 County road engineer to approve contracts
§ 178.370 Maintenance of roadway, sidewalks, bridge, structure and approaches
§ 178.375 Appeals to Circuit Court from final orders of fiscal court
§ 178.380 Appeals to Court of Appeals
§ 178.385 Enforcement of order or judgment
§ 178.400 Definitions for KRS 178.405 to 178.425
§ 178.405 Conditions requisite
§ 178.410 Fiscal court determination
§ 178.415 Fee simple title in county — Minimum width
§ 178.420 Maintenance by county works department
§ 178.425 Applicability to dead-end passways
§ 178.990 Penalties
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Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes > Chapter 178 - County Roads -- Grade Crossing Elimination

  • Action: includes all proceedings in any court of this state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
  • Attorney: means attorney-at-law. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Certified mail: means any method of governmental, commercial, or electronic delivery that allows a document or package to have proof of:
    (a) Sending the document or package. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • City: includes town. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Company: may extend and be applied to any corporation, company, person, partnership, joint stock company, or association. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Construction: includes reconstruction and improvement. See Kentucky Statutes 178.010
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • 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
  • County roads: includes necessary bridges, culverts, sluices, drains, ditches, waterways, embankments or retaining walls. See Kentucky Statutes 178.010
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Hard surface road: means a road the surface of which is asphalt, brick, stone block, macadam, concrete, gravel or other material of equal merit. See Kentucky Statutes 178.010
  • 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.
  • Month: means calendar month. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Owner: when applied to any animal, means any person having a property interest in such animal. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • real estate: includes lands, tenements, and hereditaments and all rights thereto and interest therein, other than a chattel interest. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Regular election: means the election in even-numbered years at which members of Congress are elected and the election in odd-numbered years at which state officers are elected. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • Year: means calendar year. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010