Title XXXVIII, Witnesses, Evidence, Notaries, Commissioners of Foreign Deeds, and Legal Notices

commission. Every court of this state shall take judicial notice of any comprehensive plan and any regulation adopted pursuant to KRS Chapter 100.

credit. The records and judicial proceedings of any court of any state, attested by the clerk thereof in due form, with the seal of the court annexed if there be a seal, and certified by the judge, chief justice, or presiding magistrate of the court, shall have the same faith and…

entitled to copies -- Copies as evidence -- Exemption from public disclosure except by certain persons or on order of court -- Request to destroy copies -- Reminder to ensure confidentiality. (1) All discharge papers, including Form DD-214, given, executed or delivered to any per…

No peace officer, or other person having lawful custody of any person charged with crime, shall attempt to obtain information from the accused concerning his connection with or knowledge of crime by plying him with questions, or extort information to be used against him on his tr…

Any person employed as a private investigator or confidential investigator for the purpose of determining or attempting to determine the attendance or number of paid admissions at any motion picture theater performance in this state shall furnish to the owner or general manager o…

Except as provided in KRS 422.132, if any person who has resided in this state goes from and does not return to this state for seven (7) successive years, he shall be presumed to be dead, in any case wherein his death comes in question, unless proof is made that he was alive with…

certificate -- Attorney General. (1) A resident or nonresident of this Commonwealth who is exposed to a specific event which has been declared a disaster or emergency pursuant to KRS Chapter 39A and which is certified by the Governor as a catastrophic event that has resulted in t…

death. A determination of death made by a federal agency or military service of the United States government pursuant to Title 5, United States Code, Chapter 55, subchapter VII; Title 37, United States Code, Chapter 10, or other applicable federal law shall be prima facie evidenc…

No conduct, statement, or representation of any officer of any county, city, or taxing district, shall serve to estop the county, city or taxing district from contesting the legality of any tax or indebtedness authorized or created by it in excess of the constitutional or legal l…

Persons who own any real property or any interest therein or appurtenances thereto, may by deposition perpetuate the testimony of any and all living witnesses relative to their title in the manner provided in KRS 422.170 to 422.190.

(1) The party desiring to perpetuate any testimony as provided in KRS 422.160 shall file, in the circuit clerk's office in the county where the real property is located, a statement which shall set forth that he has a title to the real property about which he desires to take test…

(1) The party desiring to take the deposition of any witness shall give ten (10) days' notice in writing to all parties known to him to be interested in, or setting up or attempting to set up claim to, the real property or any interest therein. The notice shall state the time and…

(1) When the depositions provided for in KRS 422.160 to 422.180 are completed and subscribed by the witness, they shall be certified to the circuit clerk of the county where the real property is located, by the officer before whom they were taken, in the same manner as other depo…

When any papers in any suit pending or decided in any court have been lost, destroyed, defaced, or obliterated, and there is in existence an attested copy thereof, such copy may be filed in the office where such papers belong in lieu of the originals, and shall be prima facie evi…

If the record of any unexecuted judgment or final order of a court of record of this state is lost, mutilated, defaced, or destroyed, any person interested therein may, upon ten (10) days' written notice to the adverse party, move the court in which the judgment was rendered or f…

If a bond having the force and effect of a judgment, is lost, destroyed, mutilated, or defaced, any person interested therein may, upon ten (10) days' written notice to the adverse party, move the court in which the bond was on file to award execution thereon. Upon satisfactory p…

If an order of a court, appointing an administrator, guardian or any person to any place, station, or trust or, if the bond executed by any such person, or by an officer, is destroyed, obliterated, or lost, the court shall, by the appropriate proceeding, due notice thereof being …

(1) If the records or papers of any court are lost, destroyed, defaced, or obliterated, the court shall appoint a commissioner, who shall have power and authority to fix on a convenient place to meet for the purpose of hearing evidence in regard to the lost records or papers, giv…

(1) If any record book, containing judgments, decrees, orders, executions, or proceedings of a court, is lost, destroyed, or becomes illegible, and can be again entered correctly by means of any writing, the court may order its clerk to have the matter reentered. The reentered re…

If any written instrument, required or authorized by law to be recorded, has been recorded, and the book containing it has been lost, destroyed, mutilated, or defaced, and an attested copy thereof is impounded in any court of this state, or any Circuit Court of the United States,…

When any written instrument, authorized by law to be recorded, has been so recorded, and the book containing it has been lost, destroyed, mutilated or defaced, and there is not in existence a copy of such writing known to the person claiming under it, such person may institute a …

presumed. (1) As used in this section: (a) The term "boarder" means one who holds out his land, barn or related facilities to others for compensation, by which is meant compensation in any manner, whether money or otherwise, for the custody, care, breeding or selling of horses; (…

Right to counsel -- Deposit -- Court orders -- Cost -- Access to reports -- Preservation of evidence -- Dismissal -- Hearing when results favorable to petitioner. (1) (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this subsection, a person who was convicted of a capital offense, a Cl…

Maintaining results. (1) When a person is being tried for a capital offense and there is evidence in the case which may be subjected to deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) testing and analysis, the Commonwealth or the defendant may move to have any item of evidence not previously subject…

suits out of county -- Records provable by copy. (1) No officer or employee of the Department of Corrections shall be required to give personal attendance as a witness in any civil suit, arising from that person's employment, out of the county in which his or her official worksta…

caseworker. (1) As used in this section: (a) "Confidential communication" means information transmitted between the victim and the caseworker in the course of their relationship and in confidence by a means which, so far as the victim is aware, discloses the information to no thi…

(1) As used in KRS 422.300 to 422.330, "state" has the same meaning as in KRS 421.360. (2) Medical charts or records of any hospital licensed under either KRS 216B.105 or a similar law of another state or the United States that are susceptible to photostatic reproduction may be p…

(1) When a subpoena duces tecum is served upon any employee of any hospital, requiring the production of any such medical charts or records at any action or proceeding, it is sufficient if the employee of the hospital charged with the responsibility of being custodian of the orig…

The personal attendance of the employee of the hospital charged with the responsibility of being custodian of the original charts or records specified in the subpoena shall be required if the records pertain to a patient treated by a psychiatrist and the hospital has not received…

Any patient whose medical records or charts are copied and delivered pursuant to KRS 422.300 to 422.330, any person acting on his behalf, the hospital having custody of such records, or any physician, nurse or other person responsible for entries on such charts or records shall h…

request -- Exception for Department of Corrections. (1) Upon a patient's written request, a hospital licensed under KRS Chapter 216B or a health care provider shall provide, without charge to the patient, a copy of the patient's medical record. A copying fee, not to exceed one do…

When the copies of records are delivered to a party or his attorney of record for use in a deposition, they shall, after termination of the deposition, be delivered personally or by certified mail to the clerk of the court or other body before which the action or proceeding is pe…

No institution or person shall be held in contempt or otherwise penalized for failure of production unless the business records of the institution indicate that the costs provided herein have been established and tendered. No sanction or remedy for contempt shall be applied again…

Nothing contained herein shall be construed to waive the psychiatrist-patient privilege, or to require any such privileged communications to be disclosed.

KRS Chapter 514 or 515 -- Return of photographed property to owner by law enforcement agency -- Exception. (1) In a prosecution for any offense defined in KRS Chapter 514 or 515 the court shall receive, as competent evidence, a photograph of property over which the accused is all…

Exceptions. (1) As used in this section, "personal representative" means an individual who has authority under state law to make health care decisions for a patient. (2) The parent of a patient who is under the age of eighteen (18), or a patient's personal representative on behal…

Any person who violates KRS 422.110 shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500) or imprisoned for not less than ten (10) nor more than sixty (60) days, or both.