2015 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 142 - MISCELLANEOUS TAXES 142.010 State taxes on legal processes and instruments -- Distribution of amount collected.
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142.010 State taxes on legal processes and instruments -- Distribution of amount
collected.
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(2)
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(5)
The following taxes shall be paid:
(a) A tax of four dollars and fifty cents ($4.50) on each marriage license;
(b) A tax of four dollars ($4) on each power of attorney to convey real or personal
property;
(c) A tax of four dollars ($4) on each mortgage, financing statement, or security
agreement and on each notation of a security interest on a certificate of title
under KRS 186A.190;
(d) A tax of four dollars ($4) on each conveyance of real property; and
(e) A tax of four dollars ($4) on each lien or conveyance of coal, oil, gas, or other
mineral right or privilege.
The tax imposed by this section shall be collected by each county clerk as a
prerequisite to the issuance of a marriage license or the original filing of an
instrument subject to the tax. Subsequent assignment of the original instrument
shall not be cause for additional taxation under this section. This section shall not
be construed to require any tax upon a deed of release of a lien retained in a deed or
mortgage.
Taxes imposed under this section shall be reported and paid to the Department of
Revenue by each county clerk within ten (10) days following the end of the calendar
month in which instruments subject to tax are filed or marriage licenses issued.
Each remittance shall be accompanied by a summary report on a form prescribed by
the department.
Any county clerk who violates any of the provisions of this section shall be subject
to the uniform civil penalties imposed pursuant to KRS 131.180. In every case, any
tax not paid on or before the due date shall bear interest at the tax interest rate as
defined in KRS 131.010(6) from the date due until the date of payment.
One dollar ($1) of the amount collected under each paragraph of subsection (1) of
this section shall be placed in an agency fund in the Department for Libraries and
Archives to be used exclusively for the purpose of preserving and retaining public
records by continuing the local records grant program active in the Department for
Libraries and Archives. The budgeted amount of funds allocated to the grant
program in the fiscal year 2005-2006 departmental budget shall not be reduced in
future years, and shall be increased annually by this additional revenue to be used
exclusively for the grants program.
Effective: January 1, 2007
History: Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 255, sec. 12, effective January 1, 2007. -Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 519, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended 2000
Ky. Acts ch. 408, sec. 177, effective July 1, 2001. -- Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch.
403, sec. 20, effective July 14, 1992. -- Amended 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 52, sec. 1,
effective July 15, 1986. -- Amended 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 172, sec. 2, effective July 13,
1984. -- Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 375, sec. 4, effective July 15, 1982; and ch.
452, sec. 27, effective July 1, 1982. -- Amended 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 145, sec. 1,
effective July 15, 1980. -- Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 233, sec. 21, effective June
17, 1978. -- Amended 1976 (1st Extra. Sess.) ch. 14, sec. 159. -- Amended 1960 Ky.
Acts ch. 12, sec. 1. -- Amended 1948 Ky. Acts ch. 61, sec. 6. -- Recodified 1942 Ky.
Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 4238.
2014-2016 Budget Reference. See State/Executive Branch Budget, 2014 Ky. Acts ch.
117, Pt. I, D, 6, (2) at 635.
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