KRS 63.150: Vacancies -- How filled.

The county judge/executive shall at once fill the vacancy created by a removal under KRS

63.140, either for the remainder of the term or temporarily as the occasion may demand,

as provided for by KRS 63.220. Until a vacancy in the office of sheriff or jail er is filled,

the coroner shall act as sheriff, and the county clerk shall take charge of the jail.