KRS 227.400

Owner to keep property safe from fire -- Public and employees to be kept out of unsafe buildings -- Volunteers only to be used for private company's employee fire brigade

Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 253 F. Supp. 752 - Home Insurance Company v. Hamilton (1966)

Most recently applied in Adams v. Miller (November 1995)

Effective: July 15, 1994 History: Amended 1994 Ky

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(1) No owner shall fail to furnish and use reasonable adequate protection and safeguards against fire loss, or fail to adopt and use processes and methods reasonably adequate to render such places safe from fire loss.

(2) No owner shall require or allow the public or any employee to go into or be in any property under his control which is not reasonably safe from the fire loss.

(3) Private companies which use employees to form a fire brigade to fight fires at their plant or on the premises of the company shall use the employees for the fire brigade only if the employees volunteer.

Official source: Kentucky General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Kentucky statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.