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CHAPTER 195
( HB 311 )
AN ACT relating to railroad crossings.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:
SECTION 1. A NEW SECTION OF KRS CHAPTER 277 IS CREATED TO READ AS FOLLOWS:
(1) Every railroad company shall destroy or remove obstructive vegetation upon its right-of-way at each public
railroad-highway grade crossing, for a distance of two hundred fifty (250) feet in each direction, that is:
(a) More than thirty (30) inches and less than twenty (20) feet above the height of the crossing;
(b) Within twenty (20) feet from the nearest rail or, if the railroad's right-of-way is less than twenty (20)