§ 262.010 Definitions
§ 262.020 Purpose of soil and water conservation district — Methods of achieving purpose
§ 262.025 Transfer of State Soil Conservation Committee functions to Soil and Water Conservation Commission
§ 262.090 Functions of state commission
§ 262.095 Appropriations — How used
§ 262.097 Reports from districts — Compliance with KRS 65A.010 to 65A.090
§ 262.100 Petition for district
§ 262.110 Hearing on creation of district — Matters to be considered
§ 262.120 Referendum on creation of district
§ 262.130 Commission to pay for and supervise conduct of referendum — Equal representation of opposing sides
§ 262.140 Commission to determine feasibility of district when majority favor
§ 262.150 Appointment of district supervisors by commission — Qualifications — Term
§ 262.160 Supervisors to present application to Secretary of State and file statement of committee
§ 262.170 Secretary of State to record application and issue certificate of creation
§ 262.180 Territory included in district — Addition of territory — Procedure
§ 262.190 When subsequent petitions may be filed after denial
§ 262.200 Nature of district — Governing body — Corporate powers — Operating funds
§ 262.210 Nomination of supervisors by petition
§ 262.220 Election for supervisors — County clerk’s duties
§ 262.230 Board chairman — Quorum
§ 262.240 Supervisors’ terms — Nomination and election — Vacancies — Compensation — Requirements to hold office — Removal
§ 262.250 Board may hire employees, delegate functions and bond employees
§ 262.260 Designation of city or county representative to consult with board — Appropriation by city or county to assist in program
§ 262.270 Board may make regulations
§ 262.280 Board to provide record — Audits of district accounts — Data to be furnished to commission
§ 262.290 Board may acquire, maintain and dispose of property — Other laws not to apply
§ 262.300 Board may conduct research work
§ 262.310 Board may develop soil conservation plans
§ 262.320 Board may employ erosion-control measures — Cooperation with other agencies
§ 262.330 Board may furnish materials and equipment and prescribe conditions for benefits
§ 262.340 Board may take over government projects and receive contributions
§ 262.350 Land-use regulations, what they may include
§ 262.360 Board not to adopt land-use regulations before referendum
§ 262.370 Notice of referendum — Form of question
§ 262.380 Board to supervise referendum — Effect of informalities
§ 262.390 Votes necessary for approval — Effect of regulation
§ 262.400 Regulations to be uniform in district — Classification of lands
§ 262.410 Amendment and repeal of regulations
§ 262.420 Civil liability for violation of regulations — Right to enter lands
§ 262.430 Board may file petition to compel observance of land-use regulations
§ 262.440 Court may require performance and may authorize board to do work
§ 262.450 Board may recover costs and expenses of performing work
§ 262.460 Board of adjustment
§ 262.470 Compensation of members of board of adjustment
§ 262.480 Meetings of board of adjustment — Chairman — Records
§ 262.490 Landowner may petition for variance from regulations
§ 262.500 Hearing before board of adjustment
§ 262.510 Board of adjustment may authorize variance
§ 262.520 Appeal from board of adjustment
§ 262.525 Consolidation of districts
§ 262.530 Landowners may petition for discontinuance of district
§ 262.540 Referendum on discontinuance — Form of question — Effect of informalities
§ 262.550 Commission to determine feasibility of continuance of district
§ 262.560 Board to terminate affairs of discontinued district — Certification of discontinuance
§ 262.570 Effect of discontinuance
§ 262.580 Discontinuance petition for same district limited to one in five years
§ 262.590 State agencies and subdivisions to cooperate with district
§ 262.600 Districts may cooperate with one another
§ 262.610 Acquisitions of equipment or infrastructure — Purposes — Soil and Water Conservation Commission — Joint acquisition
§ 262.620 Title to equipment or infrastructure — Retention — Transfer to district
§ 262.630 Public records to be kept on equipment and infrastructure — Accounts
§ 262.640 Monthly payment on loan or lease — Revolving fund
§ 262.650 Districts may combine to acquire equipment or infrastructure
§ 262.660 Rules and regulations or methods of accounting — Administrative regulations
§ 262.700 Watershed conservancy districts — Formation — Purposes
§ 262.705 District area — Requirements of
§ 262.707 New district within an established district
§ 262.710 Petition for formation — Contents — Filing
§ 262.715 Formation of districts in areas involving more than one soil conservation district — Filing petition — Board of supervisors
§ 262.720 Notice — Parties — Hearing — Determination — Proposed maximum budget
§ 262.725 Referendum — Notice — Polling officers
§ 262.730 Question — Eligibility of voters — Absentee voting
§ 262.735 Tabulation of votes — Certification — Filing
§ 262.740 Board of directors — Election — Membership — Terms — Officers — Bond of treasurer — Nomination petitions — Qualification of members — Removal of directors
§ 262.742 Vacancy on board of directors
§ 262.745 Powers of board of directors
§ 262.748 Resolution for maintenance and operation of project — Notice — Hearing — Election — Assessment
§ 262.750 Bonds
§ 262.755 Compensation of members of board of directors — Expenses
§ 262.760 Annual budget
§ 262.763 Audit of accounts — Report of accountant — Compliance with KRS 65A.010 to 65A.090
§ 262.765 Assessment of taxes — Tax rolls — Tax bills
§ 262.770 Collection of taxes — Discounts — Penalties — Interest
§ 262.775 Tax funds — Custody — Disbursement
§ 262.776 Definitions for KRS 262.776 to 262.779
§ 262.777 Special assessment and bonds issued
§ 262.778 Resolution for project — Notice, hearing — Election — Declaratory judgment or injunction suit, time for — Issuance of bonds — Levy
§ 262.779 Annual assessments made, how — Lien
§ 262.780 Petition for annexation of lands — Requirements — Parties — Hearing — Determination — Referendum
§ 262.785 Petition for detachment of lands — Requirements — Hearing — Determination
§ 262.791 District discontinued, when — Hearing referendum
§ 262.793 Transfer of assets and funds of district on discontinuance to soil and water conservation district — Proration, when — Collection of revenue for maintenance
§ 262.795 Fiscal court as board of supervisors on discontinuance of soil conservation district
§ 262.850 Establishment of agricultural districts — Legislative purpose — Procedure — Periodic review — Withdrawal from membership — Public hearing on condemnation — Notification of membership to property valuation administrator
§ 262.900 Definitions for KRS 262.900 to 262.920
§ 262.902 Legislative findings
§ 262.904 Acquisition of agricultural conservation easements by Commonwealth
§ 262.906 Purchase of Agricultural Conservation Easement (PACE) Corporation — Board of directors
§ 262.908 Responsibilities of board
§ 262.910 Use of restricted land during term of easement
§ 262.912 Responsibilities of landowner during term of easement
§ 262.914 Contents of deed conveying interest in restricted land
§ 262.916 Legal action by board for violation of easement
§ 262.918 Legal action by grantor for termination of easement
§ 262.920 Agricultural Enhancement Fund
§ 262.990 Penalty
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Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes > Chapter 262 - Soil and Water Conservation

  • Action: includes all proceedings in any court of this state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
  • 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.
  • Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
  • Animal: includes every warm-blooded living creature except a human being. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • 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.
  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Attorney: means attorney-at-law. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Bequest: Property gifted by will.
  • 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
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • 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
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Directors: when applied to corporations, includes managers or trustees. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Domestic: when applied to a corporation, partnership, business trust, or limited liability company, means all those incorporated or formed by authority of this state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • 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.
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Federal: refers to the United States. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • 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.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Life estate: A property interest limited in duration to the life of the individual holding the interest (life tenant).
  • Livestock: means cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, alpacas, llamas, buffaloes, or any other animals of the bovine, ovine, porcine, caprine, equine, or camelid species. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Owner: when applied to any animal, means any person having a property interest in such animal. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. Source: OCC
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • public funds: means sums actually received in cash or negotiable instruments from all sources unless otherwise described by any state agency, state- owned corporation, university, department, cabinet, fiduciary for the benefit of any form of state organization, authority, board, bureau, interstate compact, commission, committee, conference, council, office, or any other form of organization whether or not the money has ever been paid into the Treasury and whether or not the money is still in the Treasury if the money is controlled by any form of state organization, except for those funds the management of which is to be reported to the Legislative Research Commission pursuant to KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • real estate: includes lands, tenements, and hereditaments and all rights thereto and interest therein, other than a chattel interest. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • 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.
  • Sworn: includes "affirmed" in all cases in which an affirmation may be substituted for an oath. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Treatment: when used in a criminal justice context, means targeted interventions
    that focus on criminal risk factors in order to reduce the likelihood of criminal behavior. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Veto: The procedure established under the Constitution by which the President/Governor refuses to approve a bill or joint resolution and thus prevents its enactment into law. A regular veto occurs when the President/Governor returns the legislation to the house in which it originated. The President/Governor usually returns a vetoed bill with a message indicating his reasons for rejecting the measure. In Congress, the veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and the House.
  • Year: means calendar year. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010