KRS 256.100 to 256.170 shall not:
(1) Apply in any case where any railroad has furnished the material to construct a fence or condemned its right-of-way, and paid the owner or his vendor damages, in the estimation of which the cost of fencing was taken into consideration;

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 256.160

  • City: includes town. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Owner: when applied to any animal, means any person having a property interest in such animal. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • railroad: means the person who owns a right-of-way and owns or controls a railroad in this state that has been in operation for five (5) years. See Kentucky Statutes 256.010

(2) Apply to land where the owner or his vendor has received compensation for fencing;
(3) Require the railroad to build any fence along the line through any town or city or across any public or private passway; nor
(4) Require the railroad to construct fences through unimproved lands until the owner of those lands has previously inclosed those lands on three (3) sides with sufficient fences or unless that land is so inclosed with fences and a river, creek, bluff or other natural barrier as to prevent the egress of stock.
Effective: October 1, 1942
History: Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky.
Stat. secs. 1792. 1796.