416.210 Right of burial association or corporation to condemn land for cemetery -- Governmental approval needed -- Procedure. Any burial association or corporation may, with the approval of the appropriate city, county, urban-county, consolidated local government, or charter county legislative body, condemn land by first recording, in the county clerk's office of the county where the land lies, a resolution that it needs the land to furnish a burial site for the public. It may condemn a sufficient roadway to have access to the land, not wider than one hundred (100) feet. It may also condemn enough land, not exceeding five (5) acres, adjacent to any land used for a cemetery for a chapel site. If the building of any state highway requires a change in the entrance to any cemetery, the burial association or corporation may condemn any adjacent land, not wider than one hundred (100) feet for the new entrance. The condemnation procedure shall be in the Circuit Court of the county pursuant to the Eminent Domain Act of Kentucky. This section shall not permit condemnation of more than forty (40) acres at any one time. Effective: July 12, 2006 History: Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 44, sec. 1, effective July 12, 2006. -- Amended 1976 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 14, sec. 419, effective January 2, 1978. -- Amended 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 140, sec. 125. -- Amended 1946 Ky. Acts ch. 141, sec. 3. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 199a-8, 199a-9. Formerly codified as KRS 271.420, renumbered 1946 Ky. Acts ch. 141, sec. 3.
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