KRS 382.220: General index of real property records in counties containing urban -

county government or city with population of 20,000 or more -- Contracts for

indexing work.

(1) Except in counties having a courthouse district as provided in KRS 382.210, the

fiscal court in each county containing an urban -county government or a city with a

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

recent federal decennial census may in its discretion direct the county clerk to have

made in boo ks prepared for that purpose general indexes of the records of all the

real property in the county according to a system approved by the fiscal court or the

legislative body of the urban -county government. The county clerk shall advertise

for bids for all the work necessary to install the system under specifications

approved by the county judge/executive or mayor of the urban -county government

and shall, with the approval of the fiscal court or the legislative body of the urban -

county government, enter into a contract with the lowest and best bidder for the

work, after requiring him to give bond for the faithful performance of the contract in

a sum to be fixed by the fiscal court or the legislative body of the urban -county

government and approved by the coun ty judge/executive or mayor of the urban -

county government, and when the work has been completed to its satisfaction, the

fiscal court or the legislative body of the urban -county government shall direct the

payment agreed upon out of the general fund of the county.

(2) When general indexes are completed they shall constitute the official indexes and

the clerk of the county shall keep the indexes up to date by indexing therein the

records of all real property within one (1) month from the time they are lodge d for

record, and when so indexed the alphabetical cross -index of such instruments need

no longer be preserved, and when such records or any part of them become defaced

or injured the clerk shall transcribe the defaced or injured records into new books,

which shall be as valid in law as the original record.

(3) In order that such additional indexes may be kept correctly and accurately, the fiscal

court or the legislative body of the urban -county government may employ a

competent person to keep the system of indexing and shall pay such person a sum

not less than two thousand four hundred dollars ($2,400) nor more than four

thousand dollars ($4,000) per annum, out of the general funds of the county.