KRS 56.020: Secretary of State to have custody of title documents.

(1) The Secretary of State shall have custody of all records, judgments, deeds, maps and

abstracts of title of land or buildings owned for governmental purposes by the state

except deeds to rights-of-way for state or federal roads. In this section, "roads" does

not include state-owned bridges or their approaches.

(2) The Secretary of State shall record all the deeds in a separate book and shall file,

keep and have accessible the originals of all papers mentioned in subsection (1) of

this section, and the books in which they are recorded. He shall index and cross -

index the original papers and record books, including an index according to the

county where the property is located and according to the use or department of the

state government using the property. The records and indexes shall not be moved

from the Office of the Secretary of State.