KRS 266.130: Board's power to acquire property.

The board of levee commissioners may enter upon, acquire, take and hold any lands or

premises necessary and proper for locating, constructing, reconstructing, enlarging,

extending, repairing and maintaining its line of levees, as well as for the cutting of ditches

for the purpose of relieving the levees and the lands adjacent thereto enlarged by sipe and

rain water. The board may also cut and remove trees, timbers and other materials that

may, by falling or otherwise, encumber or endanger any levee. In case the owners cannot

agree with the board as to the value of any property taken under authority of this section,

the board may condemn the property in the manner provided in the Eminent Domain Act

of Kentucky.