<br><br>56.190 What lands may be appropriated -- Effect of previous entry, survey or <br>patent. <br>(1) Only vacant lands may be appropriated under KRS 56.200 to 56.240. Land that has <br>escheated to the state, or has been forfeited for failure to list it for taxation or for <br>nonpayment of taxes, or has been legally and validly patented before, is not vacant <br>land. <br>(2) Every entry, survey, or patent is void insofar as it embraces land previously entered, <br>surveyed, or patented, unless the previous entry, survey, or patent itself is void; in <br>which case the first subsequent lawful entry, survey, or patent, whether issued <br>before, on, or after June 13, 1944, shall be valid and be accorded the same force and <br>effect it would have been entitled to have been accorded, had the void entry, survey, <br>or patent never been issued. <br>History: Amended 1944 Ky. Acts ch. 94, sec. 1. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, <br>sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 4704. <br><br>