Kentucky Statutes 150.625 – Highway construction lakes
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(1) The Department of Highways is authorized to construct fills, made necessary by road construction, so that such will impound water.
(2) The Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources and the Department of Highways shall decide whether the creation of a lake in any one (1) particular spot is deemed reasonable and beneficial. The Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources shall do everything necessary to insure good fishing and may regulate boating and other recreational interest so that there may be the least amount of interference.
(3) The Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources may, if the site is suitable, assist the local party or parties in obtaining deeds or easements where necessary. Interested local parties may obtain title to excess land required and deed it to the Commonwealth for creation of a public fishing lake. A parking lot at or near the fill may be created on land deeded free of charge to the Commonwealth.
(4) Surrounding landowners may by permission irrigate from said lake providing that there is no adverse affect on the lake itself.
(5) Parking shall be regulated to prevent obstruction of the highway.
Effective: June 19, 1958
History: Created 1958 Ky. Acts ch. 115, sec. 1, effective June 19, 1958.
(2) The Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources and the Department of Highways shall decide whether the creation of a lake in any one (1) particular spot is deemed reasonable and beneficial. The Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources shall do everything necessary to insure good fishing and may regulate boating and other recreational interest so that there may be the least amount of interference.
Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 150.625
- Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
- Department: means the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
- Fishing: means to take or attempt to take in any manner, whether the fisherman has fish in possession or not. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
- Wildlife: means any normally undomesticated animal, alive or dead, including without limitations any wild mammal, bird, fish, reptile, amphibian, or other terrestrial or aquatic life, whether or not possessed in controlled environment, bred, hatched, or born in captivity and including any part, product, egg, or offspring thereof, protected or unprotected by this chapter. See Kentucky Statutes 150.010
(3) The Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources may, if the site is suitable, assist the local party or parties in obtaining deeds or easements where necessary. Interested local parties may obtain title to excess land required and deed it to the Commonwealth for creation of a public fishing lake. A parking lot at or near the fill may be created on land deeded free of charge to the Commonwealth.
(4) Surrounding landowners may by permission irrigate from said lake providing that there is no adverse affect on the lake itself.
(5) Parking shall be regulated to prevent obstruction of the highway.
Effective: June 19, 1958
History: Created 1958 Ky. Acts ch. 115, sec. 1, effective June 19, 1958.