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149.160 Duties of fire wardens -- Account of expenses -- Payment.

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149.160 Duties of fire wardens -- Account of expenses -- Payment. When the Energy and Environment Cabinet determines that a danger of forest fire exists <br>in a county in which the statewide system of forest fire protection has been established <br>under KRS 149.510 to 149.600, the cabinet shall respond to the forest fire danger and <br>employ those persons and means as, in its judgment, are expedient and necessary to <br>respond to the forest fire danger or to extinguish the fire, within the limits of the expense <br>that it has been authorized to incur in its instructions from the secretary for energy and <br>environment. The cabinet shall keep an itemized account of all expenses thus incurred <br>and immediately send the account verified by affidavit to the secretary for energy and <br>environment for examination. Upon approval by the secretary for energy and <br>environment, the account shall be paid from such fund or funds as are available to the <br>cabinet for such purpose. No such payment shall be made to any person who has <br>intentionally started the fire or to any person whose negligence caused or contributed to <br>the setting of the fire. Effective: July 15, 2010 <br>History: Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 153, effective July 15, 2010. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 169, sec. 6, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts <br>ch. 74, Art. III, sec. 13(3), effective June 21, 1974. -- Amended 1966 Ky. Acts <br>ch. 23, sec. 41. -- Created 1946 Ky. Acts ch. 204, sec. 3.