KRS 416.210: Right of burial association or corporation to condemn land for cemetery --

Governmental approval needed -- Procedure.

Any burial association or corporation may, with the approval of the appropriate city,

county, urban-county, consolidated local govern ment, or charter county legislative body,

condemn land by first recording, in the county clerk's office of the county where the land

lies, a resolution that it needs the land to furnish a burial site for the public. It may

condemn a sufficient roadway to h ave access to the land, not wider than one hundred

(100) feet. It may also condemn enough land, not exceeding five (5) acres, adjacent to any

land used for a cemetery for a chapel site. If the building of any state highway requires a

change in the entrance to any cemetery, the burial association or corporation may

condemn any adjacent land, not wider than one hundred (100) feet for the new entrance.

The condemnation procedure shall be in the Circuit Court of the county pursuant to the

Eminent Domain Act of Kentucky. This section shall not permit condemnation of more

than forty (40) acres at any one time.