KRS 262.010: Definitions.

(1) "Board" means the board of supervisors of a conservation district;

(2) "Commission" means the Conservation Commission;

(3) "District" means a conservation district whenever used in KRS 262.010 to 262.660

or a watershed conservancy district whenever used in KRS 262.700 to 262.795;

(4) "Due notice" means notice published in accordance with the legal notice provisions

of KRS Chapter 424;

(5) "Infrastructure" means the plant and assets required for maintaining a district office;

(6) "Land occupier" or "occupier of land" includes any person other than the landowner

who is in possession of any lands lying within the district, whether as lessee or

otherwise;

(7) "Landowner" or "owner of land" includes any person who holds legal or equitable

title to the land within the district determined as follows:

(a) By his, her, or their names appearing on the recorded deed to the land;

(b) By title derived through a probated will or by the laws of descent and

distribution under KRS Chapter 391;

(c) Where a minor or person adju dged mentally disabled is the owner of land

within the district, the guardian or conservator or whoever has the power of

attorney shall have the right to vote for such landowner under the provisions

of KRS Chapter 262;

(d) Where the will has not been probated by the date of the referendum or election

as provided in KRS Chapter 262, the executor of the deceased landowner shall

have the right to vote for the devisee or devisees;

(e) Where the land within the districts is held in trust, the trustee shall have the

right to vote for the landowner under the provisions of KRS Chapter 262;

(f) A landowner shall be entitled to but one (1) vote whenever he is given the

right to vote under KRS Chapter 262 regardless of the number of tracts or

parcels of land which he owns either wholly or in part, within the district;

(g) Where a trustee, executor, guardian, conservator, or other person with

authority to vote for a landowner exercises such duty in relation to two (2) or

more estates or tracts of land, within a district, such person shall have the right

to vote separately for each such landowner which he represents within the

district;

(h) In the case of a dispute as to whether or not a person has the right to vote in an

election or referendum under the provisions of KRS Chapter 262, the person

seeking such right must provide to the satisfaction of the polling

superintendent that he has the right to vote under this section.

(8) "Supervisor" means one (1) of the members of the governing body of a conservation

district.