Title VIII, Offices and Officers

(1) (a) A county clerk in a county containing a population of less than seventy thousand (70,000) may be entitled to receive an advancement to: 1. Defray necessary official expenses; and 2. Supplement the payment of the salaries of the county clerk or the county clerk's deputies …

Per-page fee. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Kentucky Revised Statutes: (1) A county clerk may establish procedures for obtaining copies of records under his or her control, including restricting the use of devices including but not limited to scanners, cameras, compu…

(1) When the term of any county clerk in counties of seventy-five thousand (75,000) population or over expires, or he dies or resigns, or is removed from office, he or his personal representative, trustee, or committee, as the case may be, shall at once deliver to his successor i…

increases. Compensation of clerks of the Circuit Court shall be set in accordance with the judicial personnel system. The Chief Justice shall include anticipated salary increases for clerks of the Circuit Court in the judicial branch budget recommendation. The increases may be li…

Deputy circuit clerks may receive annual salary increments for each year's services, subject to determination by the Supreme Court.

Each Circuit Court clerk shall receive an annual expense allowance of three thousand six hundred dollars ($3,600) per year. A lump-sum payment shall be made by the Administrative Office of the Courts to each Circuit Court clerk in the first month of each quarter as of July, 1984,…

(1) Sheriffs, constables granted peace officer powers, coroners, marshals, and policemen shall be paid out of the State Treasury for the following services the following fees: (a) Apprehending a person on charge of felony, or a fugitive from justice charged with a felony in this …

(1) (a) Except as provided in KRS 441.540, an officer conveying a prisoner to the penitentiary shall be paid out of the State Treasury the rate per mile paid state employees for official travel in privately-owned vehicles, as established by administrative regulation of the Financ…

Unless a party has established his right to prosecute or defend as a poor person under KRS 453.190, or unless the party is the Commonwealth, a county, city, or any agency thereof, no officer shall be required to execute any process in a civil case on behalf of a party until the p…

(1) Sheriffs may charge and collect the following fees from the Commonwealth and any of its agencies, including the Department of Kentucky State Police, when the source of payment is not otherwise specified, if the Commonwealth, any of its agencies, or the Department of Kentucky …

subpoenas and civil summonses. (1) A fiscal court, by ordinance, may assess additional fees on subpoena and civil summons service by the local sheriff for the purpose of paying expenses for courthouses, bonds related to them, and administration expenses of courthouses. The fees m…

attending court and providing security services -- Rates. Compensation of sheriffs and other law enforcement officers or agencies for attending court shall be as follows: (1) Compensation shall be provided only for the actual time for which the sheriff or other officer is ordered…

Each sheriff shall keep an accurate account of all fees collected by him from all sources. The clerk issuing process in a civil case shall keep an accurate account of all fees paid to the sheriff for the execution thereof, and report the amount to the fiscal court, which shall re…

Every sheriff shall, upon request, deliver to the person from whom fees are demanded, or to his agent, an account stating distinctly every item of the demand, and offer to give a receipt for the same, before he may make distress therefor.

the sheriff's death or incapacity in counties with population less than 70,000 -- Applicability of KRS 64.368 if population decreases below 70,000. (1) "Incapacity" means a condition under which a sheriff or his or her personal representative may apply to the Circuit or District …

(1) Any sheriff may be entitled to receive an advancement to defray necessary official expenses and to apply to the payment of the salaries of the sheriff or the sheriff's deputies and assistants. The secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet shall, on the first day of …

than 75,000. (1) In counties containing a population of less than seventy-five thousand (75,000), the county clerk shall provide to the fiscal court by March 15 of each year a complete statement for the preceding calendar year of all funds received by his office in an official ca…

- Expense allowance -- Training requirements -- Limitation on number of deputy coroners. (1) (a) Coroners shall receive out of the county, consolidated local government, charter county government, urban-county government, or unified local government treasury, whichever is appropr…

Constables may collect for the performance of the following services the following fees, as long as such services are provided in accordance with other applicable laws: Making arrests for violations involving a motor vehicle on the public highways ................................…

county government or a consolidated local government. (1) In counties containing a population of over 250,000, excluding urban-county governments or consolidated local governments, for the performance of the duties of his office, each constable shall be exclusively compensated by…

Fiscal courts of counties containing a city of the first class shall authorize the payment of two hundred dollars ($200) per month out of the county treasury to constables and deputy constables using their own automobile in the performance of their official duties.

consolidated local government. (1) Except for a county containing a consolidated local government, in counties containing a population of over two hundred fifty thousand (250,000), each justice of the peace shall be exclusively compensated for the performance of the duties of his…

power of the dollar. In order to equate current compensation for fiscal court services with the purchasing power of the dollar and to keep abreast of such compensation's initial value and purchasing power, the fiscal court of any county, on or before September 1, 1972, may adjust…

No fee or compensation shall be allowed or paid for affixing the jurat of a notary public to any application, affidavit, certificate or other paper necessary to be filed in support of any claim for the benefits of federal legislation for any person or his dependents who has serve…

(1) Arbitrators shall be allowed $1.50 per day, to be paid by the successful party and taxed as costs. (2) When land or improvements, in a county containing a population of 150,000 or over, are ordered by a court to be sold, and an appraisement is required, the appraisers shall b…

Any court shall pay or order payment, as the case may be, of reasonable compensation relating to the nature of the work to the county surveyor, and his agents who assist him, for any services it orders the surveyor to perform pursuant to KRS 73.040. The surveyor may refuse to del…

(1) Chain-carriers and markers shall be paid, by the person causing the survey to be made, one dollar ($1) per day. If the survey is made under an order of court their services and the fees to which they are entitled shall be reported by the surveyor in his report. (2) Viewers of…

No officer shall be entitled to any fee in a proceeding for a misdemeanor unless the fee is recovered and collected from the defendant, in which case the fee allowed and taxed shall be the same as for similar services in civil cases.

more -- Compensation -- Expenses -- Deputies and assistants -- Applicability of KRS 64.368 if population decreases below 70,000 -- Expenses not to exceed annual approved budgetary amounts. (1) The county clerk and sheriff of each county having a population of seventy thousand (70…

in counties having population of 70,000 or more -- Applicability of KRS 64.368 if population decreases below 70,000. (1) The fiscal court in counties containing a population of seventy thousand (70,000) or over may authorize and pay out of the general fund of the county for any e…

of officer. The population of a county shall, for the purposes of KRS 64.346, be determined by the most recent federal decennial census enumeration; provided; however that the provisions of those sections and subsections shall not become operative to such officers mentioned there…

Applicability of KRS 64.368 if population decreases below 70,000. (1) In counties having a population of seventy thousand (70,000) or more, the salaries of the county clerks and sheriffs and of their deputies and all necessary office expenses, including the equipping, furnishing,…

Applicability of KRS 64.368 if population decreases below 70,000. (1) It is hereby declared to be the intent of the General Assembly that all fees of the office of county clerk and sheriff in counties having a population of seventy thousand (70,000) or more that are paid into the…

approved depository. Clerks and sheriffs who are required under Constitution Section 106 to pay the fees collected by them into the State Treasury are relieved from all liability as insurers of funds that come into their hands or subject to their control after the funds are depos…

If a county clerk and sheriff are operating under the procedures applicable to counties equaling or exceeding populations of seventy thousand (70,000), and after the most recent federal decennial census the county population is less than seventy thousand (70,000), the county cler…

A constable may distrain for his own fees, or may place his fees in another officer's hands for collection, and may distrain for other officers' fees placed in his hands for collection. He shall account for officers' fees six (6) months after they are placed in his hands.

(1) The fee-bills of every officer shall be made out at length, in figures and in plain English, and signed by the officer in his official capacity. (2) No officer shall demand or receive for his services: (a) Any other or greater fee than is allowed by law; (b) Any fee for servi…

(1) Except as otherwise provided in KRS 64.050, if any officer dies before making out a fee-bill or collecting his fees, his deputy, or, if none, his personal representative, may, within two (2) years after the services were rendered, make out and sign a fee- bill therefor, and m…

(1) All fees are due and payable within two (2) months after the services are rendered. (2) The fee for the attendance of a witness may be distrained for immediately after it is due, and shall retain its distrainable power for three (3) years, after which it shall only be collect…

No distress shall be made for any fee-bill until the same is exhibited to and a demand of payment thereof is made from the person it is against.

An officer who issues a fee-bill that contains any illegal or improper item or item for services not rendered, or that omits the name of any of the parties legally chargeable therewith or that issues for a fee against any person not legally chargeable with the same, or that has b…

(1) Any person who pays any fee-bill or claim for fees which he believes contains an erroneous, improper or illegal item, or charge for services not actually rendered, or does not comport with the law in every respect, may hand the fee-bill to the Circuit Judge of the county in w…

(1) If distraint is made upon the property of a person for a fee-bill that has any unjust or improper charge or item therein, or any item not made out in every respect agreeably to the requirements of law, the person may apply to the officer making the distraint for an exact copy…

- Duties -- Recommendations. (Effective April 1, 2021) (1) There is hereby established an advisory council to be known as the Executive Branch Compensation Advisory Council. (a) The council shall consist of three (3) voting members: the state budget director, the secretary of the…

(1) Effective, with respect to the offices of Governor on December 11, 1979, and Lieutenant Governor on the fifth Tuesday following the regular November election in 1975, and with respect to the other offices named in this section on the first Monday in January, 1976, the compens…

In addition to the salary provided for in KRS 48.195 as adjusted by salary increments the General Assembly may from time to time provide, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, the chief regional Circuit Judges, and the chief regional Dis…