KRS 177.050: Construction of roads with county funds -- Repayment to county.

If any county desires to construct any part of a public road before the state is prepared to

construct it, such county shall ask the department for permission to do so. When such

request is made the department shall immediately investigate the request, and if they find

that the county has funds available to construct such road and will pay for the

construction thereof, the department may take up the construction of such road, as soon as

the county has taken such steps as the department requires to make available subject to its

order sufficient funds to pay for the construction of the road. When the county has

satisfied these requirements, the department may proceed to construct the road in the

same way and under the same regulations that it constructs other roads. The department

shall keep careful account of the money advanced by the county to the state, and when the

project of which the road is a part has been completed, the state shall refund to the county

the money advanced upon proper certification of the department, if the road is to be

accepted by the commissioner of highways as a part of the state primary road system.