KRS § 64.350 — KY Code / Title VIII / Chapter 64 / Section 64.350
64.350 Return of fees to counties whose officers pay fees into State Treasury -- Applicability of KRS 64.368 if population decreases below 70,000
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64.350 Return of fees to counties whose officers pay fees into State Treasury --

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, maintaining, and operation of the

offices, shall be paid out of the State Treasury in amounts not to exceed seventy-

five percent (75%) of the fees collected by the officers respectively, and received

into the Treasury; and twenty-five percent (25%) of the fees collected by the

officers respectively, and received into the State Treasury shall be paid in the

manner provided by law for the payment of other claims against the state to the

fiscal courts, urban-county governments, or consolidated local governments of the

respective counties. The amount of twenty-five percent (25%) of the fees collected

by the jailers during each calendar year shall be paid to the fiscal courts, urban-

county governments, or consolidated local governments of the respective counties

by April 1 of each year succeeding the calendar year during which the fees were

received by the Finance and Administration Cabinet. The amount of twenty-five

percent (25%) of the fees collected by the county clerks and sheriffs during each

calendar year shall be paid to the fiscal courts, urban-county governments, or

consolidated local governments of the respective counties quarterly no later than

April 15, July 15, October 15, and January 15. Each payment shall be for the

preceding three (3) months during which fees were received by the Finance and

Administration Cabinet. Adjustments necessary to insure that exactly twenty-five

percent (25%) of fees collected are returned to the fiscal courts, urban-county

governments, or consolidated local governments shall be made in the January 15

payment. After payment of the salaries and expenses specified in this subsection,

any remaining balance of the seventy-five percent (75%) of the fees collected by the

officers respectively at the end of their official term shall be paid by the State

Treasurer to the fiscal courts, urban-county governments, or consolidated local

governments of the respective counties, subject to the provisions of subsection (2)

of this section.

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, all sums received

into the State Treasury and representing seventy-five percent (75%) of the fees

collected by the sheriffs specified in subsection (1) of this section from any county

or consolidated local government in which a metropolitan correctional services

department has been established shall be expended from the State Treasury for the

payment of the salaries and costs specified in subsection (1) of this section, and in

Section 106 of the Constitution of Kentucky. After payment of the salaries and costs

specified in this subsection, the remaining balance representing fees collected by

sheriffs shall be paid by the State Treasury to the fiscal court or to the consolidated

local government of the county in which a metropolitan correctional services

department has been established by April 1 of each year succeeding the calendar

year in which the fees were received by the Finance and Administration Cabinet.

(3) If a county's population that equaled or exceeded seventy thousand (70,000) is less

than seventy thousand (70,000) after the most recent decennial census, then the

provisions of KRS 64.368 shall apply.