KRS 246.210: Access of department and agents, board and members, and others to

premises -- Destruction or slaughter of diseased livestock.

(1) The department or its agents or employees shall have free access within reasonable

hours to any farm, orchard, garden, el evator, warehouse, building, cellar, freight or

express office or car, freight yard, vehicle, vessel, boat, container, or any other place

which, for probable cause, it may be necessary or desirable for the agents to enter in

order to enforce a quarantine against the European corn borer (Pyrausta nubilaslis).

(2) The department or any of its agents or employees may, after reasonable notice, enter

any premises for the purpose of inspecting or testing livestock to determine the

existence of, or to combat in an y way, communicable diseases. The owner of the

livestock to be tested or inspected shall, after reasonable notice, confine and present

the livestock to the agents or employees of the department. When the department or

any of its agents or employees determi nes through inspection or testing that any

livestock is infected with a communicable disease, they may enter any premises,

after reasonable notice, and remove the diseased livestock, and have the livestock

destroyed or slaughtered and the owner indemnified as provided in KRS 257.120 to

257.150. When necessary the department or any of its agents or employees may call

upon peace officers for assistance.

(3) The state entomologist or his authorized agent shall, upon previous application,

have free access within reasonable hours to any premises or containers for purposes

of trapping, inspecting for, investigating, or treating the premises for the control of

Japanese beetles (Popillia japonica).

(4) The director of the agricultural experiment station and his agen ts shall have free

access at all reasonable hours to any premises, vehicle, elevator, or steamship

company, in the discharge of his duties under KRS 250.081.