Kentucky CHAPTER 30A COURT PERSONNEL
Circuit Clerks
- .010 Clerk defined -- Duties coextensive with Commonwealth -- Subject to administrative control of Chief Justice.
- .015 Domestic violence training for circuit clerks and deputy clerks.
- .020 Oath of clerk and deputies.
- .030 Bond of clerks, deputies, and other personnel.
- .040 Office in each county -- Branch offices -- Office hours.
- .050 Number and qualifications of deputy clerks and employees -- Power of deputy clerks -- Compensation.
- .055 Automated warrant system.
- .060 Clerk to prepare bonds and to refuse insufficient surety -- Authorization for preparation and acceptance of bail bonds by other public officers or employees.
- .070 Clerk may administer oaths and take affidavits.
- .080 Maintenance of records -- Removal from county -- Transfer by rule or order of Supreme Court.
- .090 Collection of fees or charges.
- .100 Assessment of costs.
- .110 Payment of jurors and witnesses -- Clerk's liability for advancements -- Reports to the Finance and Administration Cabinet -- Penalty.
- .120 Collection of fines and forfeitures -- Semimonthly reports and payments to the Finance and Administration Cabinet -- Delinquency.
- .125 Circuit clerk to report final disposition of criminal case to Administrative Office of the Courts -- Update of database within ninety days of disposition.
- .130 Certification of copies of documents and records.
- .140 Additional duties of clerk.
- .145 Clerks to send notices to State Board of Elections on incompetency determinations.
- .150 Vacancy in office of clerk -- Appointment of successor.
- .160 Delivery of books and records to successor.
- .170 Clerk ex officio a special circuit clerk of Commonwealth.
- .180 Assignment as special circuit clerk to fill vacancy.
- .190 Accounting by circuit clerk for all fines, fees, forfeitures, and costs collected.
- .200 Moneys deposited with court clerks and payable to a third person.
- .205 Interest on deposits.
- .210 Rules.
- .250 Expenditure of funds for liability insurance.
- .260 Payment to clerk by debit or credit card account -- Imposition of fee if check or sight order dishonored.
Additional Personnel
- .300 Secretaries for Circuit Courts and District Courts.
- .310 Authorization for appointment or employment of court personnel.
Interpreters
- .400 Interpreters -- Appointment -- Hearing to determine need.
- .405 Qualifications of interpreter -- Standards.
- .410 When interpreter shall be provided -- Removal.
- .415 Responsibility for payment for interpreter's services.
- .420 Payment out of State Treasury.
- .425 Duties of interpreter.
- .430 Interpreter not to be examined as witness -- Other privileged communications.
- .435 Use of equipment by interpreter or disabled person -- Approval required.