{"data":{"id":"us-ky/krs-227.400","jurisdiction":"us-ky","citation":"KRS 227.400","heading":"Owner to keep property safe from fire -- Public and employees to be kept","body":"out of unsafe buildings -- Volunteers only to be used for private company's\nemployee fire brigade.\n(1) No owner shall fail to furnish and use reasonable adequate protection and\nsafeguards against fire loss, or fail to adopt and use processes and methods\nreasonably adequate to render such places safe from fire loss.\n(2) No owner shall require or allow the public or any employee to go into or be in any\nproperty under his control which is not reasonably safe from the fire loss.\n(3) Private companies which use employees to form a fire brigade to fight fires at their\nplant or on the premises of the company shall use the employees for the fire brigade\nonly if the employees volunteer.","path":["KRS Chapter 227"],"source_url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=10661","current_through":"Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"09/05/2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T20:52:44Z","sha256":"0757fa7486953d5429b3bea37e5fcb4451be3380cf2c4c9e3f9b4413114e74c7","source_id":"us-ky","stale":false,"prev":"us-ky/krs-227.395","next":"us-ky/krs-227.410"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}
