2006 Kentucky Revised Statutes - .280   Failure of sheriff to execute bond.

134.280 Failure of sheriff to execute bond. (1) On the failure of the sheriff to execute bond and qualify as provided in KRS 134.230 he shall forfeit his office, and the county judge/executive may appoint a sheriff to fill the vacancy until a sheriff is elected, or it may appoint a collector for the county of all moneys due the state, county or taxing district authorized to be collected by the sheriff, or it may appoint a separate collector of all the moneys due the state, county or any taxing district thereof during the vacancy in the office of sheriff. If the county judge/executive fails for thirty (30) days to appoint a collector of money due the state, the Department of Revenue may appoint a collector thereof. These collectors shall, within ten (10) days after their appointment, execute bond as required of the sheriff, to be approved by the county judge/executive, and if the bond is not executed within that time the appointment of another collector may, in like manner, be made, but such collector shall be required to give bond for and collect only the taxes or moneys provided for in the order of the county judge/executive appointing him. (2) A sheriff who forfeits his office under subsection (1) of this section, or who resigns his office, shall not be appointed deputy sheriff or collector for the county, or elisor, deputy collector or deputy elisor. Effective: June 20, 2005 History: Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 259, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 384, sec. 277, effective June 17, 1978. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 4131, 4132.