KRS 171.500: Central depository.

The department is hereby constituted the central depository for public records. It shall be

the duty of all departments, boards, commissions, officers or other agencies of the

Commonwealth to supply to the central depository copies of each of their reports and

publications issued for general public distribution after July 1, 1958, in the number and in

the manner prescribed by rule or regulation promulgated by the department pursuant to

KRS 171.450. College, university, and public libraries may be constitute d depository

libraries by written order of the department. The central depository shall supply copies to

such depository libraries in the number and in the manner prescribed by rule or regulation

promulgated by the department pursuant to KRS 171.450.