12.220 Authority and duties of employed attorneys -- Tax collection -- Written opinions. - Kentucky Statutes

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12.220 Authority and duties of employed attorneys -- Tax collection -- Written opinions. (1) Any attorney or attorneys employed pursuant to the provisions of KRS 12.210 shall have authority to appear as the attorney for and to represent the department in the
trial and argument of any cases and proceedings in any and all courts, and before
boards, governmental agencies and tribunals in or out of this Commonwealth
whenever such department or any officer or employee thereof is a party in interest
or the official rights, powers or duties of the department or of any officer or
employee thereof are directly or indirectly affected. (2) Such attorney or attorneys may institute and prosecute any suits, motions, actions and proceedings necessary to cause the assessment of property, the collection of
taxes, and the payment of all claims, accounts, demands and judgments of the
Commonwealth, for the assessment or collection of which the department may be
charged by law, and to take all necessary steps by suit, motion, action or otherwise
to collect or cause to be collected and paid into the State Treasury all such claims,
demands, accounts and judgments. Any attorney or attorneys so employed shall
attend to any litigation and legal business within and without the state, required of
him or them by the terms of his or their employment; and also any litigation or legal
business that any officer or employee of such department may have in connection
with or growing out of his official duties or the official duties of the department;
and he or they, upon the written request of any executive or ministerial officer of the
department, shall give such department or officer his written opinion as to the duties
of such officer and shall prepare proper drafts of all instruments of writing and
perform such other legal services pertaining to the functions of the department as
may be provided by the terms of employment. Effective: January 2, 1978
History: Amended 1976 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 14, sec. 1, effective January 2, 1978. -- Created 1948 Ky. Acts ch. 122, sec. 3.