KRS 77.160: Operations exempted from provisions of KRS 77.155.

The provisions of KRS 77.155(1) and (2) shall not be applicable:

(1) To buildings used exclusively for single owner -occupied private residences.

However, the provisions of KRS 77.155 shall be fully effective and applicable if a

renovation, demolition, or c leanup of a building may cause a disturbance of

asbestos material and:

(a) The building is one (1) of a group of buildings consisting of more than one (1)

building under common control; or

(b) At the time of the renovation, demolition, or cleanup, the use of the building

or the property is commercial or is not known. To all larger residential

buildings of whatever type, KRS 77.155 shall be effective and applicable;

(2) When a firebox, furnace, boiler, locomotive, or other fuel -consuming device is

being cleaned out and a new fire is being built therein, in which event a smoke of a

density as great or greater than that established by regulation by the air pollution

control board shall be permitted for a period not to exceed six (6) minutes in any

single period of sixty (60) minutes;

(3) To equipment used for agricultural operations in the growing of crops, or raising of

fowl or animals; or

(4) To smoke from fires set by or permitted by any public officer if such fire is set or

permission given in the performanc e of the official duty of such officer for the

purpose of weed abatement, the prevention of a fire or health hazard, or the

instruction of public employees in the methods of fighting fire, which is, in the

opinion of such officer, necessary.