KRS 147.070: State planning functions of Governor's Cabinet.

(1) The Governor's Cabinet shall:

(a) Prepare and adopt plans for complete systems of state or regional highways,

expressways, parkways, parks, water supply and forest reservations, airways

and air terminals, and other things of significance in furthering a we ll

balanced development of the state.

(b) Advise with state agencies, local authorities and individuals with a view to the

coordination of all physical development plans that are related to state

activities.

(c) Make surveys of rural land utilization with a view to the determination of the

areas suitable for field crops, reforestation, watershed protection, recreation

and urban expansion.

(d) Draft for submission to the General Assembly such regulations affecting the

use and development of property as are d eemed reasonable and necessary for

orderly and coordinated developments preserving the integrity of officially

approved plans or conserving the natural resources of the state.

(e) Collect and publish information relating to welfare problems affecting the

people of the state and make such recommendations on those problems to the

General Assembly as may seem advisable and proper.

(f) Cooperate with planning boards of other states and the national planning

board.

(g) Act as a research broker in assisting state government to meet its research

needs and to perform such functions also upon request from local

governments.

(2) The cabinet shall have such powers as are necessary to promote state planning and

to enable it to carry out the purposes of KRS 147.070 to 147.100.

(3) All public officials shall upon request furnish to the Governor's Cabinet, within a

reasonable time, such available information as it may require for its work. The

members and employees of the cabinet may, in the performance of their functions,

enter upon any land, make examinations and surveys and place and maintain

necessary monuments and marks thereon.

(4) Every state officer or agency, before requesting legislative or executive approval of

a plan or authorization of an appropriation for a maj or public improvement related

to or affected by any general plan prepared under authority of KRS 147.070 to

147.100, or before requesting a change of use or disposition of real property that is

owned by the state or in which the state has an interest, shal l make a written request

to the Governor's Cabinet for its recommendations, and shall give the cabinet a

reasonable opportunity to study and make its recommendations thereon.