KRS § 382.210 — KY Code / Title XXXII / Chapter 382 / Section 382.210
382.210 General index of real property records in courthouse districts -- Contracts for indexing work
Status: in_force

382.210 General index of real property records in courthouse districts -- Contracts

for indexing work.

(1) In counties in which a courthouse district has been created and provisions made for

appointment of commissioners in that district, the commissioners may direct that

the clerk of such county shall, in such district, in addition to the alphabetical cross-

index provided for in KRS 382.200, have made in books prepared for that purpose,

general indexes to the records of all the real property in the district by placing under

the heads of the original surveyed sections or surveys, or parts of a section or

survey, squares, subdivisions, or lots on the left page of such index book:

(a) A plat showing the survey, or part of section thereof, subdivision, square, or

lots indexed on the page;

(b) The name of the grantor or grantors;

(c) Next to the right the name of the grantee or grantees;

(d) The number and page of the record where the instrument is found recorded;

(e) The character of the instrument, to be followed by a pertinent description of

the property conveyed by the deed, lease, or assignment of lease or other

instrument of writing affecting the lot or land described; and

(f) On the opposite page, in like manner, all the mortgages, liens or other

encumbrances affecting such real estate.

(2) The clerk of each county having a courthouse district shall, when so directed by the

commissioners, prepare the proper specifications for an additional indexing system

to bring up and complete the system to the date the new system is installed. He shall

advertise for bids for the work under the specifications prepared and shall, with the

approval of the commissioners, enter into a contract with the lowest and best bidder

for the work. Before entering into contract with the successful bidder, the clerk shall

require him to give bond for the faithful performance of the contract in a sum fixed

by the commissioners and the bond shall be approved by the commissioners. The

cost or expense of the work shall be paid by the commissioners out of the funds of

the courthouse district.

(3) When the general indexes are completed, they shall constitute the official indexes,

and the clerk of the county shall keep them up by indexing therein all conveyances

in the district within one (1) month from the time they are lodged for record, and

when so indexed the alphabetical cross-index of such instruments need no longer be

preserved. When such records or any part of them become defaced or injured, the

clerk shall transcribe them into new books, which shall be as valid in law as the

original record, and the transcript therefrom shall be received and taken as of the

same force and effect. The cost of such transcription shall be paid for out of the

funds of the courthouse district.

(4) In courthouse districts in which additional sectional indexes have been prepared, the

commissioners may employ a competent person to keep up the indexes, in order

that such additional indexes may be kept correctly and accurately. The

commissioners shall pay such person a salary of not over two thousand four

hundred dollars ($2,400) per annum out of the funds of the courthouse district.