Title IX, Counties, Cities, and Other Local Units

(1) Every constable and each deputy constable appointed under KRS 70.320 shall execute a bond in an amount determined sufficient by the fiscal court or the legislative council of the urban-county government or legislative body of a consolidated local government, the minimum amoun…

(1) As used in this section: (a) "Authorized county" means a county containing either an eligible city or a consolidated local government; and (b) "Eligible city" means a city on the registry maintained by the Department for Local Government under subsection (6) of this section. …

(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, for any constable or deputy constable taking office after January 1, 2023, who was not a constable or deputy constable in the preceding four (4) year term of office, the powers and duties of the office of constable shall n…

(1) A constable who vacates or is removed from office shall return and account for all claims, processes and papers in his hands, in the same manner as if he had continued in office, or he may be required by the county judge/executive to deliver them to his successor or to the co…

(1) Constables may execute warrants where specifically authorized by statute, and summons, subpoenas, attachments, notices, rules and orders of court in all criminal, penal, and civil cases, and shall return all process placed in his or her hands to the courts or persons issuing …

No constable shall return on any process that the defendant is not found, unless he has actually been to the defendant's residence and has not found him, if the defendant is a resident of the county.

Executions, fee-bills, orders of witnesses' attendance, distress warrants and attachments, shall be levied and satisfied by the constable according to the priority of time in which they are placed in his hands. The constable shall, in every case, indorse the time of reception.

It shall be no defense to any action or motion against a constable or his sureties that the process or other authority under which he acted, or it was his duty to act, was stayed or in any manner delayed, unless it was done in writing signed by the plaintiff, his agent or attorne…

(1) The constable shall collect all claims placed in his hands for collection, when by proper diligence they may be collected. (2) When a constable fails to collect a claim placed in his hands for collection, he shall upon demand return the claim, properly indorsed, to the person…

No constable shall buy, or become interested by contract in, any claim against another put into his hands for collection. Any such purchase or contract may be relied on by a defendant in bar of a suit on such claim, or as a ground for vacating a judgment or quashing an execution …

Recovery on the constable's or deputy constable's bond may be had by motion. At least ten (10) days' notice, specifying the grounds of the motion, shall be given. If not executed on all persons liable on the bond, the motion may proceed against those notified.

(1) For constable's failure, upon proper demand, to pay over money collected by him, the plaintiff shall recover the amount collected by the officer, and interest from the time of demand, and ten percent (10%) damages thereon, and the costs of his motion or action. (2) In such ac…

(1) Constables on or before the tenth day of each calendar month shall make a report concerning the performance of the duties of office by himself or herself and his or her deputies, if deputies have been authorized under KRS 70.320, during the next preceding calendar month. The …

No constable or deputy constable in any county shall make, participate in making, or knowingly permit another to make a false entry, or omit, or participate in or permit the omission of, any proper entry, in his or her official books or records, or knowingly make or participate i…

Qualifications -- Term -- Oath -- Officers. The county judges/executive of the respective counties shall have and are hereby given the power, jurisdiction and authority to establish, appoint and maintain a county police force within their respective counties, all of the members a…

(1) Except in counties containing a consolidated local government or city of the first class, or counties containing an urban-county government, the fiscal court of any county in which there is an established county police force pursuant to KRS 70.540, may provide for the establi…

When the circuit judge believes that the safekeeping of a prisoner confined in his county under a charge of felony requires that a guard be kept over him, he shall make the order of record to that effect, and direct the number of guards to be summoned, by whom, and under whose co…

(1) If the sheriff fails to renew the bond required of him by KRS 70.020 when ordered to do so by the county judge/executive, the county judge/executive shall suspend him from acting until he conforms with the order, or may vacate his office. (2) If the sheriff violates any of th…