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2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 382 CONVEYANCES AND ENCUMBRANCES
382.220 General index of real property records in counties containing second-class city -- Contracts for indexing work.
Download pdfdirect the county clerk to have made in books prepared for that purpose general
indexes of the records of all the real property in the county according to a system
approved by the fiscal court. The county clerk shall advertise for bids for all the
work necessary to install the system under specifications approved by the county
judge/executive and shall, with the approval of the fiscal court, enter into a contract
with the lowest and best bidder for the work, after requiring him to give bond for
the faithful performance of the contract in a sum to be fixed by the fiscal court and
approved by the county judge/executive, and when the work has been completed to
its satisfaction, the fiscal court shall direct the payment agreed upon out of the
general fund of the county. (2) When general indexes are completed they shall constitute the official indexes and the clerk of the county shall keep the indexes up to date by indexing therein the
records of all real property within one (1) month from the time they are lodged for
record, and when so indexed the alphabetical cross-index of such instruments need
no longer be preserved, and when such records or any part of them become defaced
or injured the clerk shall transcribe the defaced or injured records into new books,
which shall be as valid in law as the original record. (3) In order that such additional indexes may be kept correctly and accurately, the fiscal court may employ a competent person to keep the system of indexing and shall pay
such person a sum not less than two thousand four hundred dollars ($2,400) nor
more than four thousand dollars ($4,000) per annum, out of the general funds of the
county. Effective: October 1, 1942
History: Amended 1950 Ky. Acts ch. 17, sec. 1. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 1840c.
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