Forest wardens employed by the Energy and Environment Cabinet, shall assist in preventing, controlling and extinguishing forest fires, under direction of the cabinet. A forest warden must be a full-time employee of the Energy and Environment Cabinet who has been appointed by the secretary. A deputy forest warden can be a full-time or part- time employee of the cabinet or a non-employee who has been appointed by the secretary to have the same rights and privileges of a forest warden except the issuing of citations or arrests for violations of this chapter or collection of suppression costs.
Effective: July 15, 2010
History: Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 148, effective July 15, 2010. — Amended
1982 Ky. Acts ch. 142, sec. 3, effective July 15, 1982. — Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch.
74, Art. III, sec. 13(3). — Amended 1970 Ky. Acts ch. 92, sec. 26. — Recodified 1942
Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 2007j-1.