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Chapter 23A - Circuit court
23A.040 Judicial circuits with two Circuit Judges and two numbered divisions.

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23A.040 Judicial circuits with two Circuit Judges and two numbered divisions. The following judicial circuits are entitled to two (2) judges and shall have two (2) numbered divisions of the Circuit Court: (1) Fourth Judicial Circuit. (2) Fifth Judicial Circuit. (3) Tenth Judicial Circuit. (4) Eleventh Judicial Circuit. (5) Twelfth Judicial Circuit. (6) Thirteenth Judicial Circuit. (7) Fifteenth Judicial Circuit. (8) Eighteenth Judicial Circuit. (9) Twentieth Judicial Circuit. (10) Twenty-first Judicial Circuit. (11) Twenty-fourth Judicial Circuit. (12) Thirty-first Judicial Circuit. (13) Thirty-second Judicial Circuit. (14) Thirty-fourth Judicial Circuit. (15) Thirty-seventh Judicial Circuit. (16) Thirty-eighth Judicial Circuit. (17) Thirty-ninth Judicial Circuit. (18) Forty-first Judicial Circuit. (19) Forty-second Judicial Circuit. (20) Forty-third Judicial Circuit. (21) Forty-sixth Judicial Circuit. (22) Forty-ninth Judicial Circuit. (23) Fiftieth Judicial Circuit. (24) Fifty-first Judicial Circuit. (25) Fifty-third Judicial Circuit. (26) Fifty-sixth Judicial Circuit. (27) Fifty-seventh Judicial Circuit. Effective: January 2, 2023 History: Amended 2022 Ky. Acts ch. 129, sec. 2, effective January 2, 2023. -Amended 2018 Ky. Acts ch. 57, sec. 2, effective July 14, 2018; and ch. 57, sec. 6, effective January 2, 2023. -- Amended 2017 Ky. Acts ch. 75, sec. 1, effective March 21, 2017. -- Amended 2006 Ky. Acts. ch. 250, Pt. V, sec. 1, effective January 1, 2007. -- Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 173, Pt. XIII, 1.(3), sec. 1, effective July 15, 2006. -- Amended 2003 Ky. Acts ch. 66, sec. 4, effective June 24, 2003. -- Amended 2001 Ky. Acts ch. 72, sec. 2, effective June 21, 2001. -- Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 541, sec. 1, effective July 1, 2000. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 517, sec. 3 and 12, effective September 1, 1998, January 1, 1999, and September 1, 1999. -- Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 204, sec. 2, effective October 1, 1996; and ch. 377, sec. 2, effective October 1, 1996. -- Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 356, sec. 1, effective July 14, 1992. -- Amended 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 247, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1980. -Created 1976 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 14, sec. 478. Legislative Research Commission Note (1/2/2023). Under 2022 Ky. Acts ch. 129, secs. 10 and 11, the terms of new judgeships created in the amendments to this statute begin January 2, 2023, and elections to fill the judgeships must be placed on the ballot for the regular election held in November 2022. All candidates for those judgeships who file a valid petition for nomination are to be placed on the ballot for that election. Legislative Research Commission Note (3/21/2017). 2017 Ky. Acts ch. 75, sec. 4, provides that the amendments to this statute in Section 1 of that Act apply retroactively to April 16, 2016. Legislative Research Commission Note. (1/1/2007). 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 250, Pt. V, sec. 6, provides that the new judgeships created by subsections (1), (16), (21), and (26) of this statute shall become effective January 1, 2007.
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