164.735 Authority to contract with private owner. The department may enter into contracts or cooperative agreements with private landowners relating to the preservation and proper exploration of any archaeological site or object of antiquity situated on such private land. The department may acquire, with any funds available to it for such purpose, title to any real estate upon which is located an archaeological site or object of antiquity which the department determines it is important to be preserved. History: Created 1962 Ky. Acts ch. 278, sec. 7.