If any owner fails to comply with an order issued pursuant to KRS § 227.380 or with an order as modified on appeal to the commissioner, the officer may cause the property to be repaired, or removed if repair is not feasible, and all fire hazard conditions remedied, at the expense of the owner. Such expense may be enforced against any property of such owners and the officer and those employed to do the work or who furnish materials or equipment therefor shall have a lien for such expense on the real estate or property involved.
Effective: July 15, 2010

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 227.390

  • 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.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Owner: when applied to any animal, means any person having a property interest in such animal. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • real estate: includes lands, tenements, and hereditaments and all rights thereto and interest therein, other than a chattel interest. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010

History: Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 401, effective July 15, 2010. — Created
1954 Ky. Acts ch. 201, sec. 20.