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178.300 Road passing over or obstructed by dam.

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178.300 Road passing over or obstructed by dam. (1) Where a county road passes over a dam, the owner or occupier of the dam shall keep such dam in good order and at least fourteen (14) feet wide at the top. He shall <br>also keep in good order a bridge of like width over the pierhead, floodgates or any <br>waste cut through or around the dam and shall erect and keep in good order a strong <br>railing on both sides of such bridges or dam. (2) Every owner of a dam built after 1914, which dam, or the race or ditch connected therewith, obstructs any county road by the backing of water or otherwise, shall <br>whenever it is necessary for the safe and convenient crossing of the same, or the <br>pond created thereby, build and keep in repair over the dam, pond, race or ditch, a <br>bridge like that specified in subsection (1) of this section. Effective: October 1, 1942 <br>History: Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 4322.