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Kentucky · Snapshot 09/05/2026

KRS 427.130: Salaries of public officials and employees and sums due from

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  1. KRS Chapter 427

governmental agencies are subject to attachment or garnishment -- Service of

process.

(1) Salaries or sums due state, county, city and school board officers and employees

shall be subject to attachment or garnishment.

(2) All sums due any person from the Commonwealth of Kentucky, or any agency or

department thereof, and all sums due from any county school board, city or county,

shall be subject to attachment or garnishment.

(3) Service of attachments or garnishments upon the Commonwealth of Kentucky shall

be made by serving the secretary of the finance and administration cabinet, and the

state treasurer. No attachment or garnishment served upon the Commonwealth shall

be valid unless the process shall specify the name of the employee, or other creditor,

and the budget unit and division thereof through which the sum alleged to be due is

payable.

History through 1968: Amended 1948 Ky. Acts ch. 188, sec. 1. -- Amended 1942 Ky.

Acts ch. 102, secs. 1 and 2. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective

October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 1701b.

Collected 2026-09-05T20:59:45Z. Source file · JSON

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