KRS 376.110: Action to enforce lien -- Referred to master commissioner -- Special

commissioner.

(1) An action to enforce a lien provided for in KRS 376.010 shall be by equitable

proceedings, and conducted as other proceedings in equity in similar cases except as

otherwise provided. The petition shall allege the facts necessary to secure a lien, and

shall describe the property charged and the interest the plaintiff seeks to subject. As

many of the lien -holders as wish to do so may unite in the action as plaintiffs, and

those who are not plaintiffs shall be made defendants. The debtor or his personal

representative or heirs or devisees, and all other persons having liens on or interests

in the property sought to be subjected, shall be made defendants. The clerk of the

court in which the petition is filed shall issue the proper process against the resident

defenders, enter warning orders against the nonresidents and appoint an attorney to

defend for them, and appoint guardians for the infants. After the expiration of te n

(10) days from the filing of the petition, the clerk of the court in which the petition

was filed shall draw up an order referring the action to the master commissioner of

the court and file it with the petition, deliver to the commissioner the pleadings and

papers of the action, and make a memorandum thereof in his minute book.

(2) If for any cause it should be improper to refer the case to the master commissioner,

he is then directed to select some suitable person to act as commissioner for the

occasion and refer the case to him; but before such person shall proceed to act, he

shall, before the clerk, take an oath, and execute bond, with sufficient surety, similar

in all respects to the bond required to be executed by the master commissioner,

which bond shall be preserved by the clerk, and reported to the court.