{"data":{"id":"us-ky/krs-441.530","jurisdiction":"us-ky","citation":"KRS 441.530","heading":"Manner of transfer -- Compensation of officers -- Computation of","body":"expenses.\n(1) As used in this section, \"receiving jail\" means a jail that has been ordered by the\ncourt to receive prisoners.\n(2) (a) Immediately upon the receipt of a copy of an order made pursuant to KRS\n441.520(2)(a), the sheriff, or if there is no sheriff, the c oroner, shall transfer\nthe prisoners to the receiving jail. He or she shall deliver the prisoners to the\njailer of the receiving jail, with a copy of the order, and take from him or her a\nreceipt for the prisoners, which he or she shall return to the offic e of the\ncircuit clerk of the county from which the removal was made. The clerk shall\nfile the receipt in his or her office.\n(b) The receiving jail shall receive the prisoners and safely keep them until they\nare properly discharged. If the receiving jail's  jailer fails to accept and keep\nsuch prisoners, that jailer and his or her sureties shall be liable in the same\nmanner and to the same extent as if the prisoners had been regularly\ncommitted by an order of the Circuit Court of his or her county.\n(3) (a) The sheriff conveying the prisoners to the receiving jail, and such guards as\nthe judge directs him or her to take, not exceeding the number of guards\nallowed in taking convicts to the penitentiary, shall receive the compensation\nand mileage allowed by KRS 64.070 for taking convicts to the penitentiary.\nThe compensation shall be allowed by the Circuit Judge directing the transfer\nand paid out of the State Treasury, unless there was no jail in the county or it\nwas rendered insecure by the failure of the fisca l court to keep it in the\nrequisite condition, in which case it shall be paid in accordance with\nparagraph (b) of this subsection. The Circuit Judge, in making the allowance,\nshall state in the order out of which fund it shall be paid. The order of the\njudge directing the transfer shall be conclusive evidence that the transfer was\nproper and to the right jail, and shall be a justification to the receiving jail's\njailer for holding any such prisoner in any action against him or her for false\nimprisonment.\n(b) If a transfer of prisoners is necessary because there is no jail in the county or\nbecause the jail was rendered insecure by the failure of the fiscal court to keep\nit in the requisite condition, the cost of lodging the prisoners in the receiving\njail sha ll be borne by the fiscal court of the county from which the transfer\nwas made at a rate set by agreement between the two (2) fiscal courts\ninvolved. If the fiscal courts are unable to reach an agreement, the Circuit\nJudge who ordered the transfer shall es tablish the rate based on prisoner and\nfacility cost data provided by the receiving jail's jailer. The order of transfer\nshall state the reasons of the transfer.","path":["KRS Chapter 441"],"source_url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=49958","current_through":"Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"09/05/2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T20:59:55Z","sha256":"0c4102fe1d636c8f98ab4ff61126cd87354e320f828e555184ed5b86107cd843","source_id":"us-ky","stale":false,"prev":"us-ky/krs-441.520","next":"us-ky/krs-441.540"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}