441.520 Transfer of prisoners to secure jail -- Circuit Judge may order.
If in any county there is no jail, or the jail is insecure, or there is danger or probable <br>danger that any or all of the persons confined in the jail under any order or process of a <br>court, or held to answer any charge in a court, will be removed from the jail by violence, <br>the Circuit Judge shall, by an order made of record, direct that any or all of such persons <br>be transferred to the jail of the nearest county in which the jail is secure and they can be <br>safely kept. When any such order is made, and a copy thereof is furnished to the jailer of <br>the county designated, he shall receive all such prisoners. If the Circuit Judge is not in the <br>county, the order of transfer may be made by the District Judge, who shall deliver the <br>order, or a copy thereof, to the circuit clerk for revision by the Circuit Court.
Effective: July 1, 1982 <br>History: Amended 1982, Ky. Acts ch. 385, sec. 40, effective July 1, 1982. -- Amended
1976 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 12, sec. 3, effective January 1, 1978; and ch. 14, <br>sec. 458, effective January 2, 1978. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, <br>effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 2238, 2239.
Formerly codified as KRS 441.030.
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