KRS 178.300: Road passing over or obstructed by dam.

(1) Where a county road passes over a dam, the owner or occupier of the dam shall

keep such dam in good order and at least fourteen (14) feet wide at the top. He shall

also keep in good order a bridge of like width over the pierhead, floodgates or any

waste cut through or around the dam and shall erect and keep in good order a strong

railing on both sides of such bridges or dam.

(2) Every owner of a dam built after 1914, which dam, or the race or ditch connected

therewith, obstructs any county road by the back ing of water or otherwise, shall

whenever it is necessary for the safe and convenient crossing of the same, or the

pond created thereby, build and keep in repair over the dam, pond, race or ditch, a

bridge like that specified in subsection (1) of this section.