64.450 Action against officer issuing illegal fee-bill. - Kentucky Statutes

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64.450 Action against officer issuing illegal fee-bill. An officer who issues a fee-bill that contains any illegal or improper item or item for
services not rendered, or that omits the name of any of the parties legally chargeable
therewith or that issues for a fee against any person not legally chargeable with the same,
or that has been paid, or does not strictly comport in every particular with the laws in
respect to fee-bills, shall be liable to an action at the suit of any person upon whose
property a distraint is made by virtue of such fee-bill. No officer issuing such fee-bill
shall, in defense of such action, justify under the fee-bill. In such action the finding of the
jury shall not be less than three (3) times the amount of the fee-bill. Effective: October 1, 1942
History: Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 1757.