KRS 178.150: Department of Highways to render assistance in certain cases.

(1) When it is necessary to build or repair a bridge and the building and repair will cost

more than five hundred dollars ($500), the county road engineer shall notify the

Department of Highways that such work is to be done. The Department of

Highways shall th en furnish to the county road engineer plans, specifications and

estimates of cost, which he shall submit to the fiscal court. The county road

engineer shall keep in his records the plans, specifications and estimates of cost

furnished by the Department of Highways, and also the plans, specifications and

estimates of cost and the actual cost of the repair or construction work which is

actually done. The fiscal court shall not be required to accept the plans,

specifications and estimates furnished by the Department of Highways.

(2) This same plan shall be followed in making the purchase of all county road

machinery, when the amount of the purchase is five hundred dollars ($500) or more.

(3) When a new hard surface road is to be built, or an old dirt road conv erted into a

hard surface road, the county road engineer of the county in which the improvement

is to be made shall notify the Department of Highways, and the department shall

send an assistant engineer to assist in laying out the road, and in drawing plan s and

specifications and making up estimates of cost for the road. This shall be done at the

expense of the state. The fiscal court shall not be compelled to accept the plans and

specifications of the engineer furnished by the Department of Highways, but a

record of them shall be kept. After contracts are awarded, the estimates furnished by

the Department of Highways and the contract price shall be published as

advertisements provided for in KRS 178.050.