.410 How fee-bills made out -- Provisions concerning.
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64.410 How fee-bills made out -- Provisions concerning.
(1)
The fee-bills of every officer shall be made out at length, in figures and in plain
English, and signed by the officer in his official capacity.
(2)
No officer shall demand or receive for his services:
(a) Any other or greater fee than is allowed by law;
(b) Any fee for services rendered when the law has not fixed a compensation
therefor;
(c) Any fee for services not actually rendered.
(3)
Where there are more plaintiffs or defendants than one (1) in an action and they
sever in their pleadings or otherwise, so that part of them cause an officer to render
separate services for him or them, for which the others ought not to be liable, the
fees for such services shall be charged separately to those for whom the service is
rendered.
(4)
No officer in making out his fee-bill shall omit the name of any person properly
chargeable therewith, or insert the name of a person not properly chargeable.
(5)
Fees against a person acting in a trust capacity shall be made out against him in such
capacity and he shall only be liable therefor to the extent of the trust funds in his
hands liable to the payment thereof.
(6)
No fee-bill shall be made out, or compensation allowed hereafter, for any ex officio
services rendered by any officer.
Effective: October 1, 1942
History: Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky.
Stat. sec. 1749.