No person shall operate a toll bridge or toll ferry without first having obtained from the Department of Highways a certificate declaring that public convenience and necessity require such operation, except such toll bridge companies and toll ferry companies as hold perpetual and irrevocable franchises for such operation, and such companies shall be subject to all of the other provisions of KRS 280.010 to 280.110.
KRS 280.020
Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective10/1/1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 4356za-4.