172.180 Alternate method of financing library. - Kentucky Statutes

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172.180 Alternate method of financing library. Any county may adopt the following method of financing the cost of operation and
maintenance of the county law library, in lieu of the method set out in KRS 172.130 or
172.170:
(1) Upon petition of three-fourths (3/4) of the duly licensed and practicing attorneys resident in the county addressed to the Circuit Judge of the county, to the effect that
they, as officers of the various courts of the county, recognize the need of a more
adequate county law library, there being attached to said petition an attested copy of
a resolution of the fiscal court of the county indorsing the adoption of this optional
method of financing the cost of operation and maintenance of the county law
library, the Circuit Judge shall enter an order noting that said optional plan for the
financing of the cost of operation and maintenance of the county law library has
been adopted. (2) The order shall set forth the name of each duly licensed and practicing attorney signing said petition, and the order book and page number containing the resolution
of the fiscal court. (3) The order shall direct the following: (a) That upon receipt of the order by the clerks of said courts there shall be taxed as costs in all criminal actions, except examining trials and felony trials,
thereafter instituted in said court the following fee, which shall be designated
as county law library fee, in District Court, a sum not to exceed fifty cents
($0.50); in Circuit and District Courts, on all civil actions a sum not to exceed
one dollar ($1) excepting, however, in counties containing cities of the first
class and counties containing cities of the second class, where the county law
library fee, in District Court, shall be a sum not to exceed one dollar and fifty
cents ($1.50); in Circuit and District Courts, on all civil actions, a sum not to
exceed three dollars ($3); and (b) That the circuit clerk shall at the end of each month pay all sums collected as county law library fees during the preceding month, to the trustees of the
county law library, and the clerk shall make a full report with said payment,
and receive a receipt for all payments. Effective: July 15, 1996
History: Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 231, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1996. -- Amended 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 392, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1986. -- Amended 1978 Ky. Acts
ch. 384, sec. 295, effective June 17, 1978. -- Amended 1976 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky.
Acts ch. 14, sec. 165, effective January 2, 1978. -- Amended 1960 Ky. Acts ch. 17,
sec. 1, effective June 16, 1960. -- Amended 1958 Ky. Acts ch. 75, sec. 1. -- Created
1956 Ky. Acts ch. 206, sec. 1.