Kentucky Revised Statutes Title XXXII. Ownership and Conveyance of Property § 382.220.General index of real property records in counties containing urban-county government or city with population of 20,000 or more; contracts for indexing work

(1) Except in counties having a courthouse district as provided in KRS 382.210, the fiscal court in each county containing an urban-county government or a city with a population equal to or greater than twenty thousand (20,000) based upon the most recent federal decennial census may in its discretion direct the county clerk to have made in books prepared for that purpose general indexes of the records of all the real property in the county according to a system approved by the fiscal court or the legislative body of the urban-county government. The county clerk shall advertise for bids for all the work necessary to install the system under specifications approved by the county judge/executive or mayor of the urban-county government and shall, with the approval of the fiscal court or the legislative body of the urban-county government, enter into a contract with the lowest and best bidder for the work, after requiring him to give bond for the faithful performance of the contract in a sum to be fixed by the fiscal court or the legislative body of the urban-county government and approved by the county judge/executive or mayor of the urban-county government, and when the work has been completed to its satisfaction, the fiscal court or the legislative body of the urban-county government shall direct the payment agreed upon out of the general fund of the county.

(2) When general indexes are completed they shall constitute the official indexes and the clerk of the county shall keep the indexes up to date by indexing therein the records of all real property within one (1) month from the time they are lodged for record, and when so indexed the alphabetical cross-index of such instruments need no longer be preserved, and when such records or any part of them become defaced or injured the clerk shall transcribe the defaced or injured records into new books, which shall be as valid in law as the original record.

(3) In order that such additional indexes may be kept correctly and accurately, the fiscal court or the legislative body of the urban-county government may employ a competent person to keep the system of indexing and shall pay such person a sum not less than two thousand four hundred dollars ($2,400) nor more than four thousand dollars ($4,000) per annum, out of the general funds of the county.