2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 382 CONVEYANCES AND ENCUMBRANCES 382.240 Delivery of recorded instruments -- Destruction of unclaimed instruments.
382.240 Delivery of recorded instruments -- Destruction of unclaimed instruments.
Each instrument that is recorded shall be delivered to the party entitled thereto. The <br>county clerk shall require prepayment of postage for delivery of said instruments at the <br>time they are left for record in his office. If the county clerk is unable to locate the parties <br>entitled thereto, he shall retain the instruments for at least two (2) years. The clerk may <br>then destroy the instruments provided that he shall first make the following <br>announcement by public notice in the newspaper of the largest circulation in the county: <br>"Legal instruments which have been filed for record in the (name of county) county <br>clerk's office and which have been in the custody of the clerk for over two (2) years must <br>be claimed by the persons entitled thereto within thirty (30) days, or they shall be <br>destroyed." The date of the notice and the name of the clerk shall be appended to the <br>notice. Thirty (30) days after the appearance of the public notice, the county clerk may <br>destroy the instruments.
Effective: July 15, 1982 <br>History: Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 323, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1982. -- Recodified
1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 519.
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