Editorial Policy
Kentucky's dead-animal rules are scattered across a transportation manual, two statute chapters, a wildlife regulation, a public health page and a different page for every city. This site's job is to put them in one place without changing what they say. This policy is the set of habits that keeps that promise, written so a reader can hold the site to it.
What this policy covers
The guides, the FAQ, the resources page and the authority section of every city page: everything that describes what a Kentucky agency does or what a Kentucky rule says. Service pages are separate. They describe what an independent operator would need to know to price a job, and they carry no price and no claim about any operator's scope; the rules below on coverage and price apply to them too.
Source order
Sources are ranked, and a lower rank never overrides a higher one for a statement about the law.
| Rank | Source | Used for |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kentucky Revised Statutes and Administrative Regulations at the Legislative Research Commission; Transportation Cabinet manuals and pages; Kentucky Fish and Wildlife; Department for Public Health; Department of Agriculture | Any statement of what Kentucky law or a state agency requires or does |
| 2 | City public works, waste and 311 pages; county animal services, road and conservation-district pages; county health departments | What a city or county does on its own streets and roads, quoted from its page |
| 3 | Federal agencies such as the CDC | Disease and safety guidance where Kentucky publishes none |
Competitor sites, directories, review platforms, social posts and AI summaries are never used as authority for anything, and are never quoted.
How a source is read
The page is opened, not remembered. Sentences that matter are quoted inside quotation marks. Scope is taken literally: the livestock statute's first line names "domestic livestock, poultry, and fish", so its 48-hour rule is applied to nothing else, and the hazard hotline page's silence about animals is stated on every page that mentions the hotline. A city's phrase "public right-of-way" is not widened into "private property", a duty list is not widened into a free service, and a transport rule for deer carcasses is not turned into a pickup rule.
Gaps are published as gaps
Where Kentucky publishes nothing, the page says so and names what was checked, rather than filling the space with a rule from another state or from a directory. Two gaps appear often: there is no statewide statute for a dead wild animal or pet on private property, and no roadkill salvage rule could be verified from Kentucky Fish and Wildlife. Both are stated as absences, with the chapters and pages that were searched.
Coverage, capability and price
Operator coverage is stated county by county and only where it has been confirmed by the people who run the network, never from an operator's website or a directory listing. Today that is Kenton and Boone counties; every other page says coverage is not confirmed. What an operator will take on, such as deer, attics, crawl spaces or odour work, is never assumed on a page and is confirmed on the call. No price is printed anywhere, because no Kentucky operator rate has been verified; a municipal fee is labelled as one wherever it appears.
Review dates and corrections
Each guide carries the date its sources were opened and a list of what it was checked against. Pages are re-checked when a cited rule changes, when an agency changes a page, when a reader reports an error, and on a quarterly pass otherwise. A correction is checked against the original source before it is applied; if it changes the substance of a legal statement, the page notes it. Send a correction with the agency page or statute section that says otherwise, or call (502) 527-2423.
Independence
Kentucky Dead Animal Removal is a private advertising and lead-routing business with no official relationship to any agency it cites. It earns revenue when a property owner reaches an independent operator through it, which is precisely why every page names the tax-funded public-road service first: a page that hid the agency's number to sell a visit would not deserve a reader's trust or an agency's tolerance. Field work, permits, insurance and pricing are the operator's own; this site holds none of them and verifies none of them.
Accuracy and review
- Policy last reviewed
- Applies to
- Guides, city authority sections, the FAQ and the resources page