277.070 Map of route to be recorded -- Notice to Transportation Cabinet if another railroad crossed. (1) Every railroad company proceeding to construct its road in or through any county shall file and have recorded at its expense, in the office of the county clerk of that county, a map of the route showing the center and the width of the proposed road. If, after the map is filed and recorded, the location or the proposed route is changed, a map showing the change, and the center and width thereof, shall be filed and recorded at the expense of the company in the office of the county clerk of the county in which the change is made. (2) If the proposed route indicated by the map crosses the line of any other railroad, the company filing the map shall, before commencing the construction of the road near the point of crossing, notify the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. The cabinet shall notify the company whose road it is proposed to cross, and the company proposing to cross it, that if any objection is made to the crossing the cabinet will meet, at a stated time and place, to consider the question of approving the crossing. The cabinet may determine the manner in which the crossing shall be made in order to protect against accidents. Effective: December 1, 2000 History: Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 417, sec. 11, effective December 1, 2000. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 767. Legislative Research Commission Note (12/1/2000). The contingency on the effectiveness of this statute set by 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 417, sec. 18, was met, the voters of the Commonwealth having ratified at the general election on November 7, 2000, a constitutional amendment (see 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 399) abolishing the Railroad Commission.