AN ACT relating to eminent domain.

Create a new section of KRS 262.900 to 262.920 to prohibit the taking of property subject to an agricultural conservation easement by eminent domain; allow public hearing on a proposed taking of property subject to an agricultural conservation easement before the local soil and water conservation district board of supervisors; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to allow an owner of property adjoining a property condemned by eminent domain to bring a civil…

Introduced: February 18, 2025

Last action: February 26, 2025

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This bill would place new limits on when and how eminent domain — the government's or a utility's power to take private property — can be used in Kentucky. It would ban the taking of farmland under agricultural conservation easements or within agricultural districts, ban the use of condemned land for solar energy facilities, and require anyone seeking to condemn property to negotiate in good faith with owners, record those negotiations, and pay attorney's fees…

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