KRS 422.260: Copy of record impounded in court may be recorded to supply lost record.

If any written instrument, required or authorized by law to be recorded, has been

recorded, and the book containing it has been lost, destroyed, mutilated, or defaced, and

an attested copy thereof is impounded in any court of this state, or any Circuit Cou rt of

the United States, or the Supreme Court thereof, any person may procure a copy of such

copy, attested by the officer having the custody thereof, and produce it to the clerk in

whose office the originals were recorded. The clerk shall rerecord the ins trument and

certify that it was recorded from a copy of a copy, and such record shall be prima facie

evidence. The clerk shall also retain and file the copy from which the record was made.