Title XIV, Libraries and Archives

As used in KRS 171.810 to 171.814: (1) "Commission" means the Kentucky African-American Heritage Commission. (2) "Underground Railroad" means the escape of African-American slaves from or through Kentucky. Effective:June 29, 2017

The commission shall coordinate Kentucky's Underground Railroad initiative in accordance with KRS 171.805. The commission's duties as they relate to this initiative shall include but not be limited to the following: (1) Undertake a comprehensive statewide inventory of historic si…

Underground Railroad in Kentucky -- Annual report. The Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet shall be charged with the purpose of protecting, preserving, and promoting the history of the Underground Railroad in Kentucky in accordance with KRS 171.805 and 171.810 to 171.812. The secr…

Meetings -- Funding. (1) The Kentucky Native American Heritage Commission is hereby established to promote, in partnership with the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet, awareness of significant Native American influences within the historical and cultural experiences of Kentucky. …

The duties of the Kentucky Native American Heritage Commission shall be to: (1) Advise the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet, the Kentucky Heritage Council, and the Kentucky General Assembly on matters relating to Native American heritage; (2) Encourage other public and private …

As used in KRS 171.830 to 171.849, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Loan" means a deposit of property in a museum not accompanied by a transfer of title to the property, whether or not such deposit is accompanied by an oral or written agreement or other documentation; …

museum. No later than forty-five (45) days after a museum receives a loan of property, the museum shall mail the provisions of KRS 171.830 to 171.849 to the owner, by certified mail, return receipt requested.

(1) If property is on loan to a museum pursuant to a loan agreement and the loan term expires, then the museum may initiate proceedings, pursuant to KRS 171.840, to cause title to the property to vest in the museum. (2) After a museum has held property for seven (7) years, other …

(1) After the provisions of KRS 171.836(1) or (2) have been met, a museum may initiate proceedings pursuant to this section to cause title to the property to vest in the museum. (2) (a) The museum shall attempt to notify the owner, pursuant to this subsection, of its intention to…

notice. (1) If no written assertion of title has been presented to the museum within six (6) months from the date of the final published notice, title to the property shall vest in the museum free from all claims of the owner and all persons claiming under the owner. (2) If title…

(1) Unless there is a written loan agreement to the contrary, a museum may apply conservation measures to property on loan to the museum pursuant to this section. (2) The museum may apply conservation measures pursuant to this section if: action is required to protect the propert…

implement KRS 171.830 to 171.849. The Kentucky Historical Society shall implement the provisions of KRS 171.830 to 171.849 through the promulgation of administrative regulations in accordance with the provisions of KRS Chapter 13A.

(1) Any person or library board violating any of the provisions of KRS 171.240 to 171.300 shall be fined not less than ten ($10) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100) for each offense. (2) The board for certification of librarians may revoke the certificate of any person viola…

resources. (1) A county law library shall be established in each county seat and the fiscal court of each county shall designate sufficient room in the courthouse, in a building of good construction adjacent to the courthouse, in the local public library, or in a building where s…

(1) The circuit clerk shall be ex officio librarian of the county law library, and he shall see that county and state officials have access to the library at reasonable hours each day except Sunday and holidays. He shall receive a salary of not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor m…

for books lost. (1) Each clerk shall turn over to his successor separate inventories of all books, stationery and other property in the library at the commencement of his term, and all property placed in the library during his term. (2) Each clerk shall receipt to his predecessor…

The members of the fiscal court shall be trustees of the county law library and shall see that the circuit clerk properly discharges his duties as librarian. The fiscal court may appropriate money out of the county treasury to pay for legal textbooks and decisions of the courts o…

(1) Any person may use the books in the library, but the clerk shall not permit anyone to take the books out of the library, except that officials and attorneys-at-law may take the books to courtrooms to be used in the argument of cases there pending but not elsewhere. (2) Any pe…

- Action. The clerk shall keep a record in which he shall charge each book to the person taking it from the library and he shall see that all books so taken are returned at the proper time. If any person fails to return a book taken out by him, he shall be liable for double the c…

The circuit clerk as county law librarian may give to the library of the University of Kentucky and to the libraries of the state universities and colleges, such noncurrent documents and reports and other library materials in his possession as are not needed by the county.

(1) The provisions of KRS 172.100 to 172.160 shall not apply to any county that has a law library acquired under the provisions of Chapter 2 of the Acts of 1916. The fiscal court of such county may make such rules and regulations regarding the maintenance and operation of the lib…

Any county may adopt the following method of financing the cost of operation and maintenance of the county law library, in lieu of the method set out in KRS 172.130 or 172.170: (1) Upon petition of three-fourths (3/4) of the duly licensed and practicing attorneys resident in the …

Upon adoption of the optional method of financing a county law library provided in KRS 172.180, the funds derived from the county law library fee shall be designated county law library fund, and said fund shall be under the sole and full control of the trustees of the county law …

County not to be liable -- Treasurer, duties. (1) Upon the adoption of this optional plan, in counties other than those containing a city of the first class or consolidated local government, the Circuit Judge shall appoint one (1) member of the county's bar, and the members of th…

(1) Any clerk who is delinquent in making the inventory required in subsection (4) of KRS 172.110 shall be fined five dollars ($5) for each month or part of month he is delinquent. (2) Any person who violates subsection (2) of KRS 172.140 shall, in addition to his civil liability…

Any board of trustees formed and operating under KRS 173.010 to 173.410 shall comply with the provisions of KRS 65A.010 to 65A.090.

- Provisions of contract. (1) The mayor of any city of the first class, with the consent of the city legislative body, may contract with the governing authority of any library in the city, containing fifty thousand (50,000) or more volumes, for the purpose of making the library f…

(1) Any city acting under the provisions of KRS 173.010 shall annually, in its annual ordinance fixing the tax rate, include a levy for library purposes not exceeding two cents ($0.02) on each one hundred dollars ($100) worth of property assessed for taxation for city purposes. T…

Ordinances regarding conduct. (1) Any city of the first class may, by ordinance, establish and maintain within its corporate limits a free public library, with circulating and reference departments and reading rooms, or any of them, for the use of the residents thereof, with such…

(1) As soon as practicable after the passage of the ordinance providing for a free public library, the mayor shall appoint twelve (12) trustees. The appointments shall be made for four (4) year terms except that the original appointees shall be so appointed that the terms of thre…

The board of trustees of the free public libraries in cities of the first class, created or existing under the laws of Kentucky, which have not less than two (2) full time employees, may provide for their retirement with annuities; may adopt the American Library Association retir…

(1) The board of trustees may, in its corporate name: (a) Contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, and have and use a corporate seal, which it may alter at pleasure; (b) Acquire, by itself or jointly with the city in which the library is located, by gift, purchase or oth…

The board shall meet at least once each month for the transaction of its business. A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum, but no appropriation of money, except for ordinary or current expenditures, shall be made without the affirmative vote of a majority of its member…

The fiscal year of the free public libraries in cities of the first class shall begin on the first day of July of each year and end on June 30 next following.

legislative body. (1) In order to provide funds for the establishment and maintenance of a library established as provided in KRS 173.030, the legislative body of a city of the first class shall annually appropriate from the general fund of the city such sum as in the judgment of…

The board of trustees may, in its discretion, issue bonds in the sum of not over one million dollars ($1,000,000) for the purpose of making improvements or repairs, or paying off any indebtedness it may owe. The bonds may be secured by any or all real or personal property owned b…

(1) If bonds are issued as provided in KRS 173.030 to 173.100, the city in which the library is located may, by ordinance, guarantee the bonds, either as to principal or interest or both. (2) When the ordinance guaranteeing the bonds is enacted by the city, the bonds shall be ind…

All money due the board shall be deposited in a bank, in the city, selected by the board, and funds shall be withdrawn from the bank only on order of the board by check of its treasurer countersigned by its president.

joint department upon establishment of consolidated local government. (1) The fiscal court of any county containing a population of over two hundred thousand (200,000) and a city of the first class, may contract with the board of trustees of the free public library of any such ci…

registering vehicle in county with compact in effect -- Procedure upon establishment of consolidated local government. In a county where the county and a city of the first class have in effect a compact under KRS 79.310 to 79.330 and have created a joint city/county library depar…

first class or consolidated local government. Any library established or maintained pursuant to the provisions of KRS 173.310 to 173.410 shall not, upon becoming a city of the first class, or a consolidated local government, or a county containing a city of the first class, have …

As used in KRS 173.310 to 173.410, unless the context requires a different meaning: (1) "Governmental unit" means any county or city; except a city of the first class and a county containing a city of the first class; (2) "Legislative body" means the governing body of a governmen…

levy on establishment. Any governmental unit may provide library service for its inhabitants according to any one (1) of the following methods: (1) The legislative body on its own initiative may establish an independent library. (2) Upon receipt of a petition signed by a number o…

The establishment of a regional library shall be by contract, in writing, by the legislative bodies of the counties. The expenses of the regional library shall be apportioned between the contracting parties concerned in proportion to the taxable property of each as shown by their…

A contract for library service made pursuant to subsection (4) of KRS 173.310 shall require the existing library to perform all the functions of a library within the governmental unit wanting service. Such contracts shall not be valid nor shall funds be obligated until the contra…

(1) The management and control of a library shall be vested in a board of trustees. In cities and counties, the board shall consist of five (5) members except that in cities with populations equal to or greater than twenty thousand (20,000) based upon the most recent federal dece…