KRS 280.240: County judge/executive to prescribe number and kind of boats and

number of hands.

At the time of granting any ferry privilege, the county judge/executive shall prescribe the

number and kind of boats to be kept, the number of hands to be employed, and how the

boats shall be propelled, and may, once in each year thereafter, change the same, after

notice to the person granted the privilege. Where the rapidity of the current does not

require the ferry boat to be propelled by poles, the court shall prescrib e that the boat shall

have a substantial railing at least two (2) feet high on its sides.