KRS 74.190: Collection of unpaid installments -- Sale of land -- Redemption -- Settlement

with collecting officers -- Fees.

(1) Upon the first Monday after an installment is due, the commission shall meet and

ascertain the parties whose installments are in default and shall within sixty (60)

days issue warrants directing the sheriff or other collecting officer to collect the

installments that are in default. The collecting officer shall collect the installments,

with interest due on them and deferred installments, together with a penalty of six

percent (6%), in the same way state and county taxes are collected, and the

collecting officer shall settle with the commission within sixty (60) days from the

time the installments were certified to him.

(2) All lands upon w hich the installments have not been collected at the end of sixty

(60) days shall be advertised and sold by the collecting officer in the same manner

as in the case of state and county taxes. The sale so made shall be subject to the

future installments of the assessments, and at the expiration of ninety (90) days

from the date of the original certification of the installments to the collecting

officer, the collecting officer shall make final settlement with the commission and

pay to them all the moneys in h is hands. If the collecting officer fails to make a

settlement, the commission may compel him to make the settlement by order

against him issued by the district court, after giving him five (5) days' notice in

writing. In case any land is not purchased at the sale, the collecting officer shall bid

in the land for the district and in his final settlement with the commission shall take

credit therefor. The collecting officer shall certify each of the sales to the county

clerk as required in the sale of lands for state and county taxes, and the clerk shall

record each sale in a book kept by him. For collecting the assessments certified to

him the collecting officer shall be paid by the water commission the same fees

allowed him for collecting state and county t axes and in the same manner. For

recording the certificate of sale the clerk shall be allowed and paid the same fees

allowed him by law for similar work in reference to state and county taxes.

(3) The owner of such real estate, or his representatives, heir s or assigns, shall have the

right to redeem the land from the sale as is provided for the redemption of lands

sold for state and county taxes, but only upon the same terms and conditions and

within the same time as allowed in such case.