KRS 382.225: Duties of county clerk as to general indexes in certain counties containing

city with population of 20,000 or more.

The fiscal court in counties having a population of less than seventy -five thousand

(75,000) and an assessed valuation of more than o ne hundred million (100,000,000) and

containing 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 books proper for th at purpose general indexes of all records

in the office of the county clerk according to a system approved by the fiscal court. When

the general indexes are thus 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

property within one (1) month from the date they are lodged for record, and when they are

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

and when such rec ords or any part of them become defaced or injured, the clerk shall

transcribe the defaced or injured records into new books, and they shall be as valid in law

as the original record. The fiscal court may in its discretion require the county clerk and

his deputies to make such indexes as provided by this section without additional

compensation or may allow the said clerk for his services rendered by him and his

deputies reasonable compensation.