<br><br>67.082 Declaration of epidemic area -- Animal population reduction program -- <br>Liability of state personnel. <br>(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of KRS 150.370, 525.130, or any other statute that <br>may be in conflict herewith, any county fiscal court may, whenever an epidemic or <br>potential epidemic of a disease transmissible to man and domestic animals exists or <br>is threatened in any species of wildlife, declare all or any portion of that county to <br>be an epidemic area. Following a declaration, the fiscal court may, with approval of <br>the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and the Department of Fish and Wildlife <br>Resources, conduct control programs, including population reduction programs, <br>against any species of wildlife including, but not limited to, red and gray foxes, <br>skunks, and rodents which may be serving as reservoirs and/or vectors of any <br>disease transmissible to human beings and/or domestic animals including but not <br>limited to rabies, leptospirosis, salmonellosis, and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. <br>These control programs may include but shall not be limited to hunting, trapping, <br>vaccination, and use of poisons. Technical and operational assistance for the <br>programs shall be made available by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, <br>the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, and the Department of Agriculture. <br>A control program established under authority of this section may be conducted by <br>the individual or joint action of the referred-to state agencies, the local health <br>department, or individual property owners designated as agents of said cabinets and <br>departments. In the event poisonous baits are used to control an outbreak of rabies <br>in wildlife, those programs shall be under the direction of the Cabinet for Health <br>and Family Services. All pet animals in the area shall be quarantined for the <br>duration of the program by action of the local board of health. These programs shall <br>be regulated to provide specific identification of bait station locations, daily check <br>of each bait station, and positive pickup and destruction of all unconsumed baits at <br>the end of the program. <br>(2) No liability shall be imposed upon any state agency or local agency or any employee <br>or agent thereof for any injury occurring to domesticated animals, individuals, or <br>property in carrying out programs in good faith authorized by this section, but all <br>persons and agencies shall be liable to the extent otherwise provided by law for <br>ordinary and gross negligence. <br>Effective: June 20, 2005 <br>History: Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 110, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended <br>1998 Ky. Acts ch. 426, sec. 92, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1984 Ky. Acts <br>ch. 111, sec. 47, effective July 13, 1984. -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 74, Art. VI, <br>sec. 107(1). -- Created 1972 Ky. Acts ch. 98, sec. 1(1). <br><br>