To the maximum extent practicable all state agencies responsible for the maintenance of public lands in the Commonwealth shall do the following:
(1) Compost on those public lands grass clippings, leaves, and other yard waste collected at state and local government facilities;

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 56.005

  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010

(2) Use and make available for other state agencies’ use, those materials composted on state lands for projects including, but not limited to, roadway construction, reconstruction, or maintenance, restoration of sites including abandoned mine lands reclamation, stream bank stabilization, and reforestation; and
(3) Give preference, when making purchases of materials, to the use of compost for land maintenance activities according to procurement procedures set out in KRS
45A.520.
Effective: February 26, 1991
History: Created 1991 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. Acts ch. 12, sec. 58, effective
February 26, 1991.