Title IX, Counties, Cities, and Other Local Units

The county surveyor, before he enters on the duties of his office, shall give a bond in the minimum amount of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) with sureties approved by the fiscal court, which shall record the approval in its minutes and shall file the bond with the county clerk.

No person shall be eligible to file for the office of county surveyor unless he or she produces to the county clerk at the time of filing for office evidence he or she holds a Kentucky license as a professional land surveyor in accordance with the requirements of KRS 322.020 and …

On the recommendation of the county surveyor, the county judge/executive may appoint one (1) or more deputy surveyors, if the county judge/executive is satisfied that they are competent. The surveyor shall be answerable for the conduct of his deputies, and may remove any deputy a…

(1) The county surveyor shall perform any business in the civil engineering profession that he is lawfully ordered to do by any court in his county. (2) The county surveyor may select chainmen and other necessary assistants to aid him in carrying out the orders of court. The fees…

The court may direct an order of survey to any person; but in considering an application for the appointment of another surveyor for a special work, the court must give preference to the county surveyor.

Every surveyor shall promptly and faithfully execute every order of survey made by any court of lands lying in his county, and make out and return a true plat and certificate of his survey, accompanied by explanatory notes.

(1) Every survey shall be made by horizontal measurement. (2) In resurveying lands, the surveyor must execute the survey by the magnetic meridian, but he shall certify and show in his plat the degree of variation in the magnetic needle from the true meridian at the periods of the…

The county surveyor shall append to the field notes of every survey the date of the survey and the variations of the needle from the true meridian at the time of making the survey.

The county surveyor shall be made a member of committees or commissions appointed by the courts to locate, inspect, care for and report on bridges and other public improvements, and may, without taking additional oath, be made a commissioner to divide land, lay off dower or homes…

County surveyors and their deputies may administer oaths to commissioners appointed to divide land, to lay off dower or homestead, to open, alter or close a public road, or to open or close a private passway.

The county may provide the county surveyor with an office at the county seat, and with record books. The records shall be county property and shall be kept in the office of the surveyor or the county clerk.

The county surveyor shall keep a record of plats, and explanatory notes of all surveys made by him or his deputies, and copies of the record, certified to by the county surveyor, shall be legal evidence in any court. No survey or resurvey of real estate made by any person except …

(1) In counties where there have been no record plat books kept by the county surveyors, the fiscal court, by contract with the county surveyor, may order him to record by plat and explanatory notes all or any part of the surveys he has made and preserved while in office, and any…

When the office of county surveyor is vacant, the county judge/executive shall order the county clerk to take charge of the books and papers of the office, and the clerk shall give certified copies of the records when demanded, and the requirements of KRS 64.012 have been satisfi…

When the records of the county surveyor have been lost, mutilated or destroyed, they shall be supplied upon request of the county surveyor and county judge/executive from the records of the land office.

The county for which lost, mutilated or destroyed records are supplied shall furnish or pay for the necessary books in which to make the records and for the necessary clerk hire to transcribe the records, but no fees shall be due or payable to the state or any officer for such re…

The Secretary of State shall certify to each book and at the end of each record, when supplied as directed in KRS 73.150 and 73.160. Such records when compiled and certified by the Secretary of State shall be prima facie evidence in court of all matters therein contained.

The county judge/executive shall appoint three (3) competent persons in the county to serve as processioners for a term of four (4) years. Before proceeding to act, each processioner shall take an oath to discharge the duties of his office to the best of his skill and judgment. A…

The processioners shall, on the application of any person producing his title papers, go around his land, or the part he may desire, and re-mark it, taking care that the new marks are on the old lines. When they find any corner tree, post or stone removed, defaced or rotted down,…

The processioners or any two (2) or more persons selected by the parties and appointed by the county judge/executive may, on the application of persons whose lands adjoin, go on their dividing lines, and, by their consent, mark new corner trees, set up new stones or posts, ascert…

The county surveyor, or some person appointed by the court to survey, shall in all cases attend the processioners or the persons selected by the parties. He shall make out a plat and certificate of the land of the applicants, noting what is done, and his plat and certificate shal…

The processioners may, at the request of any party interested, take depositions as to the proper position of any corner or line, and the depositions shall be returned with the processioners' report. The opposite party may, in like manner, take testimony at the same or another tim…

Any person desiring to have his land processioned, or desiring to take depositions as allowed by KRS 73.220, may give ten (10) days' notice to any person interested, or his agent or attorney, or, if an infant, or person adjudged mentally disabled, to his guardian or conservator, …

If any person owns a tract of land that lies in two (2) or more adjoining counties, the processioners of that county in which the greater part lies may procession the whole tract.

The reports of processioners, the plats and certificates of the surveyor, notices and affidavits, and depositions taken by the processioners, shall be filed and kept by the county clerk. The report, notice and plat shall be recorded, and shall be prima facie evidence against the …

(1) Any surveyor who violates any of the provisions of KRS 73.060 shall forfeit twenty dollars ($20) to the person injured, and shall be jointly and severally liable, with his sureties, to an action on his bond for damages. (2) Any surveyor who violates any of the provisions of K…