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Kentucky Revised Statutes · § 256.090 — Liability when livestock break owner's fence and enter uninclosed land

256.090. Liability when livestock break owner's fence and enter uninclosed land

If the owner or bailee of livestock has a lawful fence, and his or her livestock break through or over the fence and upon the premises of another which are not enclosed by a lawful fence, he or she shall not be responsible for the first trespass, but shall be liable for all subsequent trespasses.

Source notes

Effective: June 29, 2017

History and annotations

Amended 2017 Ky. Acts ch. 129, sec. 25, effective June 29, 2017. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 1788.

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