Kentucky Revised Statutes

Ky. Rev. Stat. § 97.530 (2026)

Powers of cities with respect to parks, cemeteries, squares, avenues, and

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fountains. The legislative body of any city may, by ordinance, acquire, establish and maintain public cemeteries, parks, squares, avenues, promenades, and fountains, either within or without the city; repeal ordinances heretofore or hereafter enacted creating such public cemeteries, parks, squares, avenues, promenades, and fountains where the same were not acquired or given to the city for such specific purposes, and provide, by appropriate ordinances, for the use of said lands, easements, buildings, and appurtenances thereon or appertaining thereto for other purposes; make all necessary appropriations for the cost and maintenance of same; and make regulations for the use, management and direction thereof. Effective: January 1, 2015 History: Amended 2014 Ky. Acts ch. 92, sec. 179, effective January 1, 2015. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 3290, 3290-33.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases, 1951–1963 · leading case: Pulaski Cnty. v. City of Somerset, 364 S.W.2d 334 (Ky. Ct. App. 1963).

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Pulaski Cnty. v. City of Somerset, 364 S.W.2d 334 (Ky. Ct. App. 1963). · cites it 3× “Under KRS 97.530 a city of the third class (which Somerset is) has authority to “repeal ordinances heretofore or hereinafter enacted creating * * * public * * * parks * * * where the same were not acquired or given to the city for such specific purposes, and provide, by…”

Shamburger v. Duncan, 244 S.W.2d 759 (Ky. Ct. App. 1951). “ed under the provisions of [the act] shall be protected at all times, as far as possible, from fire and grazing, and shall be kept and maintained as a permanent public forest, * * * All such forest lands shall be open to the use of the public for recreational purposes so far as…”

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