system.
Every county road, bridge, and landing, and every city street and alley heretofore lawfully
established and opened and not lawfully discontinued or vacated shall continue as such,
until properly discontinued. Every road, street, and alley, used and occupied as a public
road, street, or alley, shall be presumed to be a public road, street, or alley, as the case
may be. Nothing in this section shall be interpreted as interfering with the right of the
fiscal court of a county containing a city of the first class or a consolidated local
government from detaching a road or a portion thereof from the county through road
system.
Effective: July 15, 2002
History: Amended 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 346, sec. 183, effective July 15, 2002. --
Amended 1964 Ky. Acts ch. 80, sec. 4. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1,
effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 4295.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in
7
cases (
2 in the last 5 years), 1944–2024 · leading case:
Blankenship v. Acton, 159 S.W.3d 330 (Ky. Ct. App. 2004).
Blankenship v. Acton, 159 S.W.3d 330 (Ky. Ct. App. 2004).
· cites it 3× “Following a bench trial, the trial court rendered findings of fact, conclusions of law, and a judgment granting an injunction against Blankenship.”
Fuqua v. United States, 869 F. Supp. 2d 814 (W.D. Ky. 2012).
· cites it 2× “” KRS § 178.020. With respect to railroad crossings specifically, Kentucky courts have held that, “ ‘for a [railroad] crossing to be a public one the road or street on which it is situated must be a public road or street established either in the manner prescribed by statute or…”
Salyers v. Tackett, 322 S.W.2d 707 (Ky. Ct. App. 1958).
“A way dedicated in the manner in which the so-called street to which this case relates was dedicated to public use cannot be regarded as a “public road” in the sense that it became part of the county’s system of roads which must be maintained within the meaning of the statute,…”
Isaacs v. Karnes, 197 S.W.2d 789 (Ky. Ct. App. 1946).
“ppellee directs our attention to the fact, established by his evidence and not controverted by appellants, that this segment Z was never abandoned with the statutory formalities provided by KRS 178.020 et seq. Appellee appears to be correct in his contention that this old…”
Joanna Smith v. City of Newport (Ky. Ct. App. 2024).
· cites it 2× “110, KRS 178.020, and KRS 411.182(2). However, relative to any negligence claim, the plaintiff is required to demonstrate he or she was within the class of persons protected by the operative 1 In her brief, Smith appears to make much of the fact that she was injured in James…”
Compton v. Moore, 184 S.W.2d 83 (Ky. Ct. App. 1944).
“KRS 178.020 and 178.050. To the same effect is Maggard v.”
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