Title XIV, Libraries and Archives

resources. (1) A county law library shall be established in each county seat and the fiscal court of each county shall designate sufficient room in the courthouse, in a building of good construction adjacent to the courthouse, in the local public library, or in a building where s…

(1) The circuit clerk shall be ex officio librarian of the county law library, and he shall see that county and state officials have access to the library at reasonable hours each day except Sunday and holidays. He shall receive a salary of not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor m…

for books lost. (1) Each clerk shall turn over to his successor separate inventories of all books, stationery and other property in the library at the commencement of his term, and all property placed in the library during his term. (2) Each clerk shall receipt to his predecessor…

The members of the fiscal court shall be trustees of the county law library and shall see that the circuit clerk properly discharges his duties as librarian. The fiscal court may appropriate money out of the county treasury to pay for legal textbooks and decisions of the courts o…

(1) Any person may use the books in the library, but the clerk shall not permit anyone to take the books out of the library, except that officials and attorneys-at-law may take the books to courtrooms to be used in the argument of cases there pending but not elsewhere. (2) Any pe…

- Action. The clerk shall keep a record in which he shall charge each book to the person taking it from the library and he shall see that all books so taken are returned at the proper time. If any person fails to return a book taken out by him, he shall be liable for double the c…

The circuit clerk as county law librarian may give to the library of the University of Kentucky and to the libraries of the state universities and colleges, such noncurrent documents and reports and other library materials in his possession as are not needed by the county.

(1) The provisions of KRS 172.100 to 172.160 shall not apply to any county that has a law library acquired under the provisions of Chapter 2 of the Acts of 1916. The fiscal court of such county may make such rules and regulations regarding the maintenance and operation of the lib…

Any county may adopt the following method of financing the cost of operation and maintenance of the county law library, in lieu of the method set out in KRS 172.130 or 172.170: (1) Upon petition of three-fourths (3/4) of the duly licensed and practicing attorneys resident in the …

Upon adoption of the optional method of financing a county law library provided in KRS 172.180, the funds derived from the county law library fee shall be designated county law library fund, and said fund shall be under the sole and full control of the trustees of the county law …

County not to be liable -- Treasurer, duties. (1) Upon the adoption of this optional plan, in counties other than those containing a city of the first class or consolidated local government, the Circuit Judge shall appoint one (1) member of the county's bar, and the members of th…

(1) Any clerk who is delinquent in making the inventory required in subsection (4) of KRS 172.110 shall be fined five dollars ($5) for each month or part of month he is delinquent. (2) Any person who violates subsection (2) of KRS 172.140 shall, in addition to his civil liability…