KRS 178.337: Removal of road from system -- When city streets in system.

(1) After an engineering and traffic investigation and the receipt of recommendations

by the county road engineer, a county through road or a portion thereof established

or maintained as provided in KRS 178.330 may be detached from the county

through road syst em. The fiscal court or the consolidated local government shall

cause the proposed deletion to be marked on a map to be deposited with county road

engineer and to be open to public inspection. The same procedure set forth in KRS

178.330 for the establishment or maintenance of a county through road system shall

be followed in the case of roads or portions of roads detached therefrom. Notice of

the proposed deletion from the system shall conform to KRS 424.130(1)(b). The

fiscal court or the consolidated local government may in its discretion detach or

retain the road as a part of the county through road system. The decisions of the

fiscal court or the consolidated local government made in accordance with this

section shall be final. Whenever any county through road has been added or

detached from the county through road system in accordance with KRS 178.330 to

178.337, the county road engineer shall accordingly amend the map of the county

through road system, which map shall at all times be available for public inspection

in the office of the county road engineer. Nothing herein shall be construed as

automatically deleting from the county through road system any portion of the

system in territory which becomes incorporated as a city or which becomes annexed

to a city.

(2) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to take from the jurisdiction or control of

the legislative body of any incorporated city or consolidated local government, any

road, bridge, landing, or wharf, or any other thing exclusively under the jurisdiction

or control of such city or a consolidated local government. Provided, however, that

roads within a city in a county containing a city of the first class or a consolidated

local government may be made a part of the county through road system, i n

accordance with KRS 178.330 or 178.333, or both, with the agreement of the

legislative body of said city.

(3) Nothing in this chapter shall prevent any fiscal court or a consolidated local

government from acquiring land by gift for public purposes.