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96.070 Fourth-class city may grant rights-of-way to utilities -- Conditions.

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96.070 Fourth-class city may grant rights-of-way to utilities -- Conditions. The legislative body of any city of the fourth class may grant rights-of-way over the <br>public streets or public grounds of the city to any utility company, on such conditions as <br>seem proper, shall have a supervising control over the use of same, and shall regulate the <br>speed of cars and signals and fare on street cars. The legislative body may compel any <br>railroad company to erect and maintain gates at street crossings and prevent railroads <br>from obstructing public ways of the city, and fix penalties for the violation of these <br>provisions. Nothing in this section shall prevent any property owner whose property abuts <br>on a street on which a railroad is granted a right-of-way from recovering from the railroad <br>any damage done to his property by the occupation or use of the street by the railroad. Effective: July 15, 1980 <br>History: Amended 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 188, sec. 92, effective July 15, 1980. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. <br>sec. 3490-25.