KRS 172.180: Alternate method of financing library.

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 at torneys

resident in the county addressed to the Circuit Judge of the county, to the effect that

they, as officers of the various courts of the county, recognize the need of a more

adequate county law library, there being attached to said petition an attested copy of

a resolution of the fiscal court of the county indorsing the adoption of this optional

method of financing the cost of operation and maintenance of the county law

library, the Circuit Judge shall enter an order noting that said optional plan for the

financing of the cost of operation and maintenance of the county law library has

been adopted.

(2) The order shall set forth the name of each duly licensed and practicing attorney

signing said petition, and the order book and page number containing th e resolution

of the fiscal court.

(3) The order shall direct the following:

(a) That upon receipt of the order by the clerks of said courts there shall be taxed

as costs in all criminal actions, except examining trials and felony trials,

thereafter instituted in said court the following fee, which shall be designated

as county law library fee, in District Court, a sum not to exceed fifty cents

($0.50); in Circuit and District Courts, on all civil actions a sum not to exceed

one dollar ($1) excepting, howeve r, in counties containing cities of the first

class and counties containing an urban -county government or cities with

populations equal to or greater than twenty thousand (20,000) based upon the

most recent federal decennial census, where the county law li brary fee, in

District Court, shall be a sum not to exceed one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50);

in Circuit and District Courts, on all civil actions, a sum not to exceed three

dollars ($3); and

(b) That the circuit clerk shall at the end of each month pay a ll sums collected as

county law library fees during the preceding month, to the trustees of the

county law library, and the clerk shall make a full report with said payment,

and receive a receipt for all payments.