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70.050 Person may be empowered to execute process.
(1) A sheriff may, by writing, empower any person to execute an original or mesne
process. The person so empowered shall indorse his action on the instrument
empowering him, and shall make affidavit to the truth of the indorsement, and
attach the affidavit to the process and deliver the indorsement and affidavit to the
sheriff or his deputy, to be returned to the proper office. The indorsement shall have
the same validity as if made by the sheriff.
(2) The sheriff shall be responsible for the acts of the person so empowered.
Effective: October 1, 1942
History: Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky.
Stat. secs. 4562, 4563.