Kentucky Revised Statutes
Includes enactments through the 2024 Regular Session
Chapter titles, centered headings, section catchlines, and explanatory notes are for informational purposes only and do not constitute any part of the law. For general laws governing construction of statutes, see KRS Chapter 446.
The KRS database was last updated on 11/20/2024
.010 Clerk defined -- Duties coextensive with Commonwealth -- Subject to administrative control of Chief Justice.
.015 Domestic violence training for circuit clerks and deputy clerks.
.020 Oath of clerk and deputies.
.030 Bond of clerks, deputies, and other personnel.
.040 Office in each county -- Branch offices -- Office hours.
.050 Number and qualifications of deputy clerks and employees -- Power of deputy clerks -- Compensation.
.055 Repealed, 2007.
.060 Clerk to prepare bonds and to refuse insufficient surety -- Authorization for preparation and acceptance of bail bonds by other public officers or employees.
.070 Clerk may administer oaths and take affidavits.
.080 Maintenance of records -- Removal from county -- Transfer by rule or order of Supreme Court.
.090 Collection of fees or charges.
.100 Assessment of costs.
.110 Payment of jurors and witnesses -- Clerk's liability for advancements -- Reports to the Finance and Administration Cabinet -- Penalty.
.120 Collection of fines and forfeitures -- Semimonthly reports and payments to the Finance and Administration Cabinet -- Delinquency.
.125 Circuit clerk to report final disposition of criminal case to Administrative Office of the Courts -- Update of database within ninety days of disposition.
.130 Certification of copies of documents and records.
.140 Additional duties of clerk.
.145 Clerks to send notices to State Board of Elections on incompetency determinations -- Administrative Office of the Courts to monthly report the names of persons excused from jury duty to the Attorney General, United States Attorney, and State Board of Elections.
.150 Vacancy in office of clerk -- Appointment of successor.
.160 Delivery of books and records to successor.
.170 Clerk ex officio a special circuit clerk of Commonwealth.
.180 Assignment as special circuit clerk to fill vacancy.
.190 Accounting by circuit clerk for all fines, fees, forfeitures, and costs collected.
.200 Moneys deposited with court clerks and payable to a third person.
.205 Interest on deposits.
.210 Rules.
.250 Expenditure of funds for liability insurance.
.260 Payment to clerk by debit or credit card account -- Imposition of fee if check or sight order dishonored.
.300 Secretaries for Circuit Courts and District Courts.
.310 Authorization for appointment or employment of court personnel.
.400 Interpreters -- Appointment -- Hearing to determine need.
.405 Qualifications of interpreter -- Standards.
.410 When interpreter shall be provided -- Removal.
.415 Responsibility for payment for interpreter's services.
.420 Payment out of State Treasury.
.425 Duties of interpreter.
.430 Interpreter not to be examined as witness -- Other privileged communications.
.435 Use of equipment by interpreter or disabled person -- Approval required.