KRS 382.300: Duty of clerk concerning instruments lodged for record -- Reproduction of

clerk's signature on photographic copy.

(1) Every county clerk shall record all deeds, mortgages and powers of attorney that are

lodged for record, properly certified, or that are acknowledged or proved before him

as required by law. He shall also record the certificates endorsed on such

instrument, and shall certify the time when the instrument was lodged in his office

for record. If acknowledged or proved before him, he shall a lso certify the time of

acknowledgment or proof, and by whom proved, and that the instrument and the

certificate thereon have been duly recorded in his office.

(2) Whenever, either heretofore or hereafter, any recordable instrument of writing

bearing the certificate of the clerk showing its recording shall have been copied of

record by any photographic, photocopying, or other mechanical process for

reproducing on the record the instrument and certificate, the clerk's signature, by

either the clerk or his d eputy, so reproduced with such certificate shall have the

same effect as if subscribed by the clerk on the record.