2013 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 69 - COMMONWEALTH'S AND COUNTY ATTORNEYS
69.010 Duty of Commonwealth's attorney to attend to civil cases in Circuit Court -- Exceptions.

Download as PDF 69.010 Duty of Commonwealth's attorney to attend to civil cases in Circuit Court -- Exceptions. (1) (2) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, the Commonwealth's attorney shall, except in Franklin County, attend to all civil cases and proceedings in which the Commonwealth is interested in the Circuit Courts of his judicial circuit. In civil cases the Governor may employ counsel to assist the Commonwealth's attorney. The fees of the counsel employed by the Governor shall be paid out of the State Treasury upon a voucher signed by the Governor. In each judicial circuit containing a city of the first or second class or an urban-county government, the Commonwealth's attorney shall not be required to represent the Commonwealth in any civil proceedings. Effective:January 1, 1978 History: Amended 1976 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 17, sec. 22, effective January 1, 1978. -- Amended 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 62, sec. 68. -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 318, sec. 1. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 118.