Kentucky Revised Statutes
Includes enactments through the 2024 Regular Session
Chapter titles, centered headings, section catchlines, and explanatory notes are for informational purposes only and do not constitute any part of the law. For general laws governing construction of statutes, see KRS Chapter 446.
The KRS database was last updated on 11/20/2024
.010 Establishment and personnel of survey.
.020 Other departments of university to cooperate.
.030 Duties and functions of survey.
.035 Official repository for groundwater information.
.040 Reports and publications.
.050 Repealed, 1966.
.100 Definitions for KRS 151.110 to 151.460 and 151.990.
.110 Water resources policy -- Duties of cabinet.
.112 Planning process for management and development of water resources.
.113 Kentucky Water Resources Board.
.114 Long range water supply plans.
.116 Administrative regulations.
.118 Financing development of water supply plans.
.120 Public water of Commonwealth, what constitutes.
.125 Authority and powers of secretary.
.130 Repealed, 1974.
.140 Withdrawal of water from public waters, permit required -- Exceptions.
.150 Application for permit -- Withdrawal of water from public waters.
.160 Record and report of water withdrawn under permit -- Effect of noncompliance.
.170 Permits to be specific -- Issuance -- Amendment.
.180 Repealed, 1980.
.182 Notice of violation and hearing thereon -- Demand for hearing on denial, modification or revocation of permit.
.184 Hearing conducted by hearing officer -- Final determination by secretary -- Use of counsel -- Subpoena power -- Hearings to be public.
.186 Appeals from final orders.
.190 Repealed, 1980.
.200 Temporary allocation of water supply among users -- Permit for transfer or diversion of water between streams or watersheds.
.210 Use of water by landowner for domestic purposes -- Impounding and conserving water, permitted when.
.220 Water resources studies.
.230 Repealed, 2023.
.232 Repealed, 2017.
.240 Surveys of project on behalf of state.
.250 Plans for dams, levees, embankments, dikes, bridges, fill, or other obstruction to be approved and permit issued by cabinet -- Jurisdiction of Department for Natural Resources.
.260 Applications for permit -- Time for approval or rejection -- Emergency action plan administrative regulation.
.270 Repealed, 1974.
.280 Commencement of preparations for project without permit prohibited -- Deviation from approved plans.
.290 Repealed, 1974.
.291 Responsibility for safety of water barriers owned by Commonwealth -- Transfer of ownership of water barrier -- Responsibility for safety after transfer -- Approval of transfer.
.293 Inspection reports -- Requirement -- Time periods -- Modification -- Administrative regulations.
.295 Regular inspections of dams and reservoirs.
.297 Orders for remedy -- Action by cabinet -- Contracts or agreements for required work -- Hearings.
.299 Liability for costs of cabinet emergency work -- Action for recovery of costs -- Foreclosure sale to satisfy judgment.
.300 Repealed, 1974.
.310 Deposits in water without permit prohibited.
.320 Officers required to enforce law.
.330 Repealed, 1988.
.340 Repealed, 1988.
.350 Repealed, 1988.
.360 Repealed, 1988.
.370 Repealed, 1988.
.380 Repealed, 1988.
.390 Repealed, 1988.
.400 Repealed, 1988.
.410 Repealed, 1988.
.420 Repealed, 1988.
.430 Repealed, 1988.
.440 Repealed, 1988.
.450 Repealed, 1988.
.460 Actions for penalties and injunctions.
.550 Community Flood Damage Abatement Program.
.560 Repealed, 2007.
.570 Repealed, 2007.
.580 Negotiation with federal agencies for operation or maintenance of a navigable waterway within Kentucky -- Approval of agreement -- Appropriation.
.600 Public information program for floodplain management and flood hazard mitigation programs.
.601 County and multicounty water management planning councils.
.603 Consistency of each council's long-range water supply plan with other provisions of law -- Contents of plan -- Function of planning councils.
.605
.607 Annual review and prioritization of planning councils' plans.
.610 Definitions for KRS 151.610 to 151.615.
.611 Stream Restoration and Mitigation Authorities -- Powers -- Limitation on authority -- Legislative preferences on funding uses.
.612 Assistance in establishing Stream Restoration and Mitigation Authority.
.613 Authority membership -- Qualifications -- Terms -- Compensation -- Officers.
.614 Authority powers and duties -- Reports.
.615 Authority pilot projects permitted.
.620 Legislative findings.
.621 Definitions for KRS 151.620 to 151.629.
.625 Establishment of long-term groundwater monitoring network -- Duties.
.629 Interagency Technical Advisory Committee on Groundwater -- Duties and responsibilities.
.630 Legislative finding -- Cabinet's duty to administer system capacity program -- Authority to promulgate administrative regulations.
.632 System capacity development strategy -- Assistance to existing systems in plan development.
.634 Requirement for system capacity for new community or nontransient noncommunity public water systems after October 1, 1999.
.636 Cabinet's requirement to conduct a source water assessment and delineation program.
.650 Authority created -- Purposes -- Legislative findings.
.652 Board of directors.
.654 Powers, functions, and duties.
.656 Dam and reservoir construction and operation.
.658 Bonding authority and procedures.
.660 Contributions by local governments -- State appropriation requests.
.662 Statement of objectives --- Annual report -- Accounting and auditing.
.664 State agency cooperation.
.700 Declaration of policy.
.705 Kentucky River Authority -- Functions -- Public purposes -- Management of authority.
.710 Membership of Kentucky River Authority -- Compensation -- Meetings -- Administrative regulations.
.720 Powers of authority.
.723 Water use fees.
.725 Authority's duty to bring action for penalties or injunctive relief -- Venue.
.727 Continuing study of water availability and needs of Kentucky River basin -- Biennial estimate on costs of water supply needs of Kentucky River basin.
.728 Preconstruction and construction reports -- Long-range planning document -- Execution of funded programs.
.7282 Presession reports to legislative committees.
.729 Authority's involvement in requested transfer of drinking water between water utilities involving Kentucky River basin watershed.
.730 Revenue bonds.
.810 State geographer -- Appointment -- Duties.
.990 Penalties.