KRS 422.250: Reentering instrument -- Effect of.

(1) If any record book, containing judgments, decrees, orders, executions, or

proceedings of a court, is lost, destroyed, or becomes illegible, and can be again

entered correctly by means of any writing, the court may order its clerk to have the

matter reentered. The reentered record, when approved by the court, shall have the

same effect as the original.

(2) If any record book of written instruments, or any such instrument, filed in any

clerk's office is lost, destroyed, or becomes illegible, the clerk shall u pon the

production of any original paper which was recorded in the lost book, or an attested

copy from the record, or of anything else in said book, or of any paper so filed, on

the request of the person interested, rerecord the instrument and shall certif y on the

record whether it was recorded from the original or a copy, and how it was

authenticated. Such record shall be prima facie evidence.