KRS 62.150: Premiums on bonds of county officers in counties of two hundred thousand

population.

All elective or appointive county officers of any county containing a population of two

hundred thousand (200,000) or more who, upon assuming their respective offices, are

required under the law to execute a bond for the faithful discharge and performance of

their duties, and who shall have such bond executed by any incorporated surety company

authorized to do a surety business in the State of Kentucky, shall pay the pr emium on

such bond, and the amount paid for such premium shall be and become a valid claim

against the county, except where the law provides that it be paid by the state, and shall be

paid in the same manner as other claims are paid. In each case in which a claim is made

for the payment of premium on the bond executed as above set out, the officer executing

the bond as principal shall verify the claim by his affidavit.