262.700 Watershed conservancy districts -- Formation -- Purposes. Subdistricts of a soil conservation district may be formed in a watershed area, as provided in KRS 262.700 to 262.795, to be known as watershed conservancy districts, for the purpose of developing and executing plans and programs relating to any phase of conservation of water, water usage, flood prevention, flood control, erosion prevention and control of erosion, floodwater and sediment damages. As a subdistrict of a soil conservation district, a watershed conservancy district shall constitute a government al subdivision of the state and a public body corporate and politic exercising public power. Effective: July 13, 1984 History: Amended 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 218, sec. 5, effective July 13, 1984. -- Amended 1964 Ky. Acts ch. 117, sec. 2. -- Created 1956 Ky. Ac ts ch. 203, sec. 1. Legislative Research Commission Note . This section was amended by 1984 Acts Chapter 100, sec. 22, and 1984 Acts Chapter 218, 5, which conflict and cannot be compiled together. Pursuant to KRS 446.250, the amendment in Chapter 218, sec. 5 prevails as the later enactment.
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