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97.252 Title to and control of park property -- Exemption from taxation -- Use for streets -- Contracts for use of aviation fields -- Control of public ways acquired for park purposes.

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97.252 Title to and control of park property -- Exemption from taxation -- Use for streets -- Contracts for use of aviation fields -- Control of public ways acquired <br>for park purposes. (1) The title to all property with all improvements and equipment acquired for park, airport or aviation field purposes, subject to any existing leases thereof, shall be <br>held by the city in strict and inviolable trust for such public purposes, free from all <br>taxation, imposts or assessments by state, county, district, municipal, or other <br>governmental subdivision; but the city may use any portion of such property as is <br>necessary and proper for the construction, extension, or widening of streets, <br>boulevards, thoroughfares or other public ways, and may enter into contracts or <br>agreements, with reference to properties acquired for airport or aviation field <br>purposes, for the use of the field and airport for aviation purposes, with the United <br>States government or any agency thereof, or any state government or any agency <br>thereof, or any board of aviation established under any act of the General Assembly <br>of this Commonwealth, or of any other commonwealth or state, or any individual, <br>firm or corporation. However, it shall at no time and in no way enter into any <br>contract or agreement that prevents its carrying out the main purpose of the <br>establishment and maintenance of a public municipal aviation field and airport, for <br>the general use of the citizens of the city as a park purpose. (2) Such park property as consists of all connecting parkways and roads or drives between public parks, and all avenues, roads, ways, drives, walks, outside of or on <br>the boundaries of public parks which were or are acquired for park purposes, shall <br>be under the direction, control, maintenance and management of the department of <br>public works of the city, and any such property may be declared by resolution of the <br>board of aldermen to be a part of the public ways of the city. History: Amended 1968 Ky. Acts ch. 152, sec. 80. -- Amended 1956 Ky. Acts ch. 8, sec. 1. -- Created 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 34, sec. 2.