247.4013 Scope and policies of KRS 247.401 to 247.4029. KRS 247.401 to 247.4029 are intended to aid courts and juries in defining the duties of persons responsible for farm animals to others who have chosen to participate in farm animal activities. KRS 247.401 to 247.4029 also establish the policy of the Common wealth of Kentucky that persons do not have a duty to eliminate risks inherent in farm animal activities which are beyond their immediate control if those risks are or should be reasonably obvious, expected, or necessary to participants engaged in farm animal activities. Furthermore, KRS 247.401 to 247.4029 establish the policy that the sponsor, instructor, or other professional engaged in farm animal activities who breaches a duty to a farm animal activity participant and causes foreseeable injury to the p articipant shall be responsible for the injury in accordance with other applicable law. Effective: July 15, 1996 History: Created 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 78, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1996.
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