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KRS 64.200: Constables in counties of over 250,000 population not containing an urban -

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  1. KRS Chapter 64

county government or a consolidated local government.

(1) In counties containing a population of over 250,000, excluding urban -county

governments or consolidated local g overnments, for the performance of the duties

of his office, each constable shall be exclusively compensated by a salary of nine

thousand six hundred dollars ($9,600) per annum to be paid in equal monthly

installments out of the county treasury.

(2) Each c onstable and deputy constable, if deputy constables have been authorized

under KRS 70.320, shall daily deliver or cause to be delivered to the recorder for

the justice's district in which he holds office all moneys received or collected by

him by virtue of his office, or the recorder may receive such moneys for the officer,

and in either event the recorder shall daily issue to each officer a receipt for moneys

received from or for him. Each recorder shall keep such records of each daily

transaction, in such manner and form, and showing such information, as the fiscal

court of the county requires.

(3) All moneys received or collected on account of or resulting from the performance

of the duties or the exercise of the powers incident to the offices of constabl e and

deputy constable, if deputy constables have been authorized under KRS 70.320,

shall be paid into the county treasury.

(4) Before the tenth day of each calendar month the recorder for each justice's district

shall prepare a sworn statement showing the correct amounts of money received or

collected during the next preceding calendar month from the administration of the

offices of constable and deputy constable, if deputy constables have been

authorized under KRS 70.320. The statement shall be in the for m and shall disclose

the information required by the fiscal court. Each monthly statement, and as many

copies thereof as the fiscal court may require, shall be subscribed and sworn to by

the recorder. On or before the tenth day of each calendar month each recorder shall

deliver one (1) or more copies of the monthly statement to the fiscal court, or such

person as the fiscal court designates, and at the same time deliver by certified

check, payable to the order of the county treasurer, the total sum of money received

by the recorder under the provisions of this section during the next preceding

calendar month. During the interims between such monthly statements each

recorder shall safely preserve the funds coming into his hands by virtue of this

section in a bank designated by the justice of the peace, which bank shall duly

execute a depository bond in a sufficient amount to cover monthly balances.

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