A drainage district may be created in accordance with the procedures of KRS 65.810 for the purpose of draining or reclaiming low, swampy or overflowed land in the county, locate, establish and have constructed any levee, ditch, drain or canal, and have constructed, straightened, widened or deepened any ditch, drain, creek, or nonnavigable watercourse, and have reconstructed any ditch, drain, creek, levee or canal heretofore constructed under any drainage law.
KRS 267.020
Amended 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 64, sec. 17, effective7/13/1984. -- Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 384, sec. 398, effective 6/17/1978. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective 10/1/1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 2380-1.