KRS 56.240: Affidavits of applicant and surveyor.

Before the surveyor permits the entry of any land for survey and patent, and before he

surveys any land for the purpose of obtaining a patent thereon, he shall require the party

desiring the entry and survey made to file with him an affidavit to the effect that the land

has not, to the applicant's knowledge or belief, been previously entered, surveyed or

patented, in whole or in part, and that the land is vacant and unappropriated. The surveyor

shall forward to the Secretary of State, with his plat and cert ificate of the land, his own

affidavit to the effect that the land has not, to the surveyor's knowledge or belief, been

previously, in whole or in part, entered or surveyed for patent or patented.