62.070 Action and recovery on bond. - Kentucky Statutes

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62.070 Action and recovery on bond. Actions may be brought from time to time on any bond required by law for the discharge
or performance of any public or fiducial office, trust or employment, in the name of the
Commonwealth, for its benefit or for that of any person injured by a breach of the
covenant or condition, at the proper costs of the party suing, against the parties jointly or
severally, together with the personal representatives, heirs and devisees or distributees of
such of them as may be dead. Recovery against the surety shall be limited to the amount
of the penalty fixed in the bond, but recovery against the principal shall not be limited by
the amount of the penalty fixed in the bond. Recovery on the bond shall not be restricted
to duties or responsibilities belonging to the office, trust or employment at the date the
bond is executed, but may include any duties or responsibilities thereafter imposed by law
or lawfully assumed. Effective: October 1, 1942
History through 1968: Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 186d-1, 3752.