KRS 149.640: Control measures may be applied -- Agreements with landowners -- Cost.

The secretary for energy and environment may apply measures of infestation and

infection control on public and private forests and other lands anywhere in the

Commonwealth, to any trees, timber, plants or shrubs thereon harboring or which may

harbor any in sects or disease. The secretary may enter into agreements with owners of

such lands covering the control work on their lands, and fix the pro rata basis on which

the cost of such work will be shared between the Commonwealth and said owner;

provided, that t he failure of the secretary to offer an agreement to or execute an

agreement with any owner shall not impair the right of the secretary's representatives to

enter on the lands of said owner to conduct control operations.