KRS 56.230: Survey, plat and certificate -- Issue of patent.

(1) The surveyor shall survey the entries in the order in which they are made, bounding

each entry by plainly marked trees, stones or stakes, noting where it binds on a

watercourse or the marked line of another survey, and giving names. The survey

shall be mad e in the presence of two (2) disinterested housekeepers as chainmen,

whose names shall be placed at the bottom of the plat and certificate. Each survey

must be made within six (6) months after the date of the entry. A plat and certificate

of the survey sha ll be made out by the surveyor and recorded in his books, and the

original thereof and a copy of the order of court under which it is made shall be

filed in the office of the Secretary of State within six (6) months after the survey is

made.

(2) When the s urvey is carried into grant, the Secretary of State shall write across the

face of the order on which the survey was made "satisfied," and sign his name to it.

The legal title to the land shall vest in the patentee as of the time the survey is made,

unless the plat and certificate of survey are filed more than six (6) months after the

survey is made, in which case the legal title shall vest in the patentee as of the date

of the patent.

(3) Plats and certificates are assignable, regardless of when made or when assigned, and

the assignment authorizes a patent to issue to the assignee. Land warrants are not

assignable.

(4) No patent shall be issued for more than two hundred (200) acres to any one (1)

person in any one (1) county.