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62.090   Proceeding for release and indemnity of sureties -- Where brought. 
If  a  surety  in  any  official  bond,  or  bond  of  a  personal  representative,  guardian, 
conservator, curator, assignee or trustee, master commissioner, receiver, or in any bond or 
covenant which by law may be required to be executed in court, or before an officer at the 
commencement  or  during  the  progress  of  any  civil  judicial  proceeding,  wishes  to  be 
relieved  from  future  liability  and  to  obtain  indemnity  for  liability  already  incurred,  or 
either, he may file a motion in the court in which the original bond was given or in whose 
clerk's office the bond is required to be kept. If the bond was not given in any court or is 
not required to be kept in any office, the motion shall be filed in the Circuit Court of the 
county  in  which  the  principal  resides,  or  if  the  principal  has  no  residence  in  this  state, 
then in the Circuit Court of the county of the residence of the surety. The motion may be 
filed in the court or the motion and notice, with return showing service, may be filed in 
the office of the clerk of the court. 
Effective:  July 15, 1982 
History:  Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 141, sec. 47, effective July 1, 1982. -- Amended 
1978 Ky. Acts ch. 92, sec. 5, effective June 17, 1978.  -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts 
ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 4659, 4664. 
Note:  1980 Ky. Acts ch. 396, sec. 50 would have amended this section effective July 1, 
1982.  However,  1980  Ky.  Acts  ch. 396  was  repealed  by  1982  Ky.  Acts  ch. 141, 
sec. 146, also effective July 1, 1982.