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69.210 Duties of county attorney.
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
The county attorney shall attend the fiscal court or consolidated local
government and conduct all business touching the rights or interests of the
county or consolidated local government, and when so directed by the fiscal
court or consolidated local government, he or she shall institute, defend, and
conduct all civil actions in which the county or consolidated local government is
interested before any of the courts of the Commonwealth.
The county attorney shall attend to the prosecution in the juvenile session of
the District Court of all proceedings held pursuant to petitions filed under KRS
Chapter 610 and over which the juvenile session of the District Court has
jurisdiction pursuant to KRS Chapter 610.
The county attorney shall give legal advice to the fiscal court or consolidated
local government and the several county or consolidated local government
officers in all matters concerning any county or consolidated local government
business within their jurisdiction. He or she shall oppose all unjust or illegally
presented claims.
A county attorney serving in a county, consolidated local government, or
urban-county which is part of a judicial circuit described by KRS 69.010(2), in
addition to the duties in subsections (1) and (2) of this section, shall have the
following duties:
(a) He or she shall attend all civil cases and proceedings in his or her county
in which the Commonwealth is interested; and
(b) He or she shall advise the collector of money due the Commonwealth in
the county or consolidated local government in regard to motions against
delinquent collecting officers for failing to return executions, and shall
prosecute the motions. In no case shall the county attorney take a fee or
act as counsel in any case in opposition to the interest of the county or
consolidated local government.
Effective:July 15, 2002
History: Amended 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 346, sec. 65, effective July 15, 2002. -Amended 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 423, sec. 185, effective July 1, 1987. -- Amended
1980 Ky. Acts ch. 215, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1980. -- Amended 1976 (1st
Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 17, sec. 29, effective January 1, 1978. -- Amended
1976 Ky. Acts ch. 102, sec. 1. -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 318, sec. 3. -Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky.
Stat. secs. 126, 127, 136.
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