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Kentucky · Snapshot 09/05/2026

KRS 433.770: Willfully removing or damaging boundary marker.

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  1. KRS Chapter 433

(1) Any person who fraudulently and willfully removes, defaces, cuts down, or destroys

a cornertree, post, cornerstone, or any monument erected to designate the boundary

of this state, or of any county or city, or the boundary of any tract or lot of land,

shall be guilty of a Class D felony and shall cause the marker, at his or her own

expense, to be reestablished by a professional land surveyor.

(2) Any person who willfully and knowingly, but without a felonious intent, removes,

defaces, cuts down, or destroys a tree, post, stone, or any monument erected to

designate the boundaries of this state or of any county or city, or the boundaries of

any tract or lot of land, shall cause the marker, at his or her own expense, to be

reestablished by a professional land surveyor.

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