Title VIII, Offices and Officers

(1) No officer shall enter upon the duties of his office until he takes the oath required of him by law. (2) Each person elected to an office shall take the oath of office on or before the day the term of office to which he has been elected begins, except in years where the first…

(1) The official oath of any officer may be administered by: (a) Any active, retired, or senior status justice or judge of the Court of Justice or active, retired, or senior status federal judge, with Kentucky jurisdiction; (b) Any member of the General Assembly may administer an…

Every person, before entering on the duty of executor, administrator, guardian, curator or conservator of a person who is mentally disabled, or any other like trust or employment, in lieu of all other oaths not expressly required by law, shall take in substance the following oath…

(1) Every peace officer shall take an oath that he will endeavor, to the best of his ability, to detect and prosecute all gamblers and others violating the laws against gaming. (2) The oath specified in subsection (1) of this section may be administered by any person who may admi…

(1) Except as otherwise provided by statute, no officer required by law to give bond shall enter upon the duties of his office until he gives the bond, except in years where the first Monday in January falls upon January 1. In years where the first Monday falls upon January 1, no…

Suspension of penalties. Any officer currently in office who did not obtain a bond in conformity to the requirements of KRS 62.050 or other statute applicable to bonding of his office shall be deemed to have complied with the applicable provisions of law if he shall have in place…

(1) Any act done, prior to his removal from office, by an officer removed from office pursuant to provisions of KRS 62.990 or other applicable statute for a violation of KRS 62.050 or other bonding statute is legalized, as against the Commonwealth, to the extent that the act may …

(1) Every county clerk, before entering on the duties of his office, shall execute bond to the Commonwealth, with corporate surety authorized and qualified to become surety on bonds in this state. Any county clerk holding office as of January 1, 1978, who has not executed bond as…

Amount -- Renewal. (1) Except as provided by KRS 395.130, the bond required by law to be executed and given by any public official, depository of public funds, or any fiduciary, and other bond required by law for the discharge or performance of any public or fiducial office, trus…

limitation to corporate sureties. Individual sureties on bonds required by law to be executed and given by an officer of any city or county as provided in subsection (1) of KRS 62.060, shall not become surety on more than one (1) bond of any such officer at the same time. The lim…

Actions may be brought from time to time on any bond required by law for the discharge or performance of any public or fiducial office, trust or employment, in the name of the Commonwealth, for its benefit or for that of any person injured by a breach of the covenant or condition…

All persons required by law to give bonds for the discharge or performance of any public or fiducial office, trust or employment are relieved from all liability as insurers of funds that come into their hands or subject to their control after the funds are deposited in good faith…

If a surety in any official bond, or bond of a personal representative, guardian, conservator, curator, assignee or trustee, master commissioner, receiver, or in any bond or covenant which by law may be required to be executed in court, or before an officer at the commencement or…

(1) The surety shall give written notice to the principal requiring him, by a day named in the notice, to appear before the court in which the motion is filed. (2) If the principal is within the state, the notice shall be not less than ten (10) days, otherwise there shall be thir…

If a new bond is given all the sureties making the motion shall be discharged from all liability for the acts of the principal thereafter done. If the object is so specified, the bond shall contain a covenant to indemnify the said sureties against any loss, cost or damage legally…

(1) If a new bond is not given on the day named in the notice or fixed by the court, the party moved against shall, if he is an officer, be at once removed from office. If he is not an officer his powers shall be revoked and he shall be deprived of all right further to act in dis…

The remedy given to the surety by KRS 62.090 to 62.120 may be adopted by his personal representative. Any surety in the bond may, at any time before the final action upon the motion, unite with the movant and ask for the same relief.

(1) Each county clerk, jailer and sheriff whose fees are paid into the State Treasury, and who has the bond required of him by law executed by an incorporated surety company authorized to do a surety business in Kentucky, shall have a claim against the state for the amount of the…

population. All elective or appointive county officers of any county containing a population of two hundred thousand (200,000) or more who, upon assuming their respective offices, are required under the law to execute a bond for the faithful discharge and performance of their dut…

premiums on. With the exception of the sheriff's county levy bond, and with the exception of those bonds upon which the premium is now paid by the state or county, each sheriff shall have a valid claim against the state for the amounts paid by him for premiums on the bonds requir…

Each sheriff who is required by law to furnish at his own expense a bond for the collection of county revenue shall have a claim against the county for the amount paid for the premium on his county revenue bond when the bond has been executed by an incorporated surety company aut…

(1) The state officers elected by the voters of the state at large, except the Governor and the Lieutenant Governor, the heads of departments, offices, and cabinets of the state government, the adjutant general, the members of the Public Service Commission, the members of the Sta…

companies that may participate. (1) The secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet shall secure, except for state officers required by KRS 62.160 to file bond, blanket bonds, with or without cosureties, written on a blanket position form, to cover all other officers, emp…

Each bond provided for in KRS 62.160 shall be a covenant to the Commonwealth of Kentucky that the principal will faithfully discharge his duties and will faithfully account for and pay over all money and property that may come into his possession by virtue of his office or positi…

The bonds provided for by section 62.170 of the Kentucky Revised Statutes shall be covenants to the Commonwealth of Kentucky that the officers, employees or holders of positions covered by the bond will faithfully account for and pay over all money and property that may come into…

form and legality -- Filing. (1) Each bond mentioned in KRS 62.160 to 62.190 shall be executed by a corporate surety authorized to do a surety business in Kentucky. No bond shall be accepted until it has been approved by the Attorney General as to form and legality, except the bo…

clerk to county clerk. The office of county clerk, rather than the individual holder of the office, shall be liable for the acts or omissions of deputy clerks. When a deputy clerk omits to act or acts in such a way as to render the clerk responsible, and the clerk discharges such…

(1) Any person who violates KRS 62.010(1) or 62.050(1) on or after the date thirty (30) days after January 27, 1995, shall be fined not less than five hundred dollars ($500) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000). (2) (a) If any person violates KRS 62.010(2) or (3) before Ja…