Clerk defined -- Duties coextensive with Commonwealth -- Subject to administrative control of Chief Justice
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case United States v. Bennett (1999)
Most recently applied in Nanny v. Smith (August 2008)
Effective: January 2, 1978 History: Created 1976 (1st Extra
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) For the purpose of KRS 30A.010 to 30A.190, "clerk" means the Circuit Court clerk serving in his capacity as clerk of both the Circuit Court and the District Court.
(2) As personnel within the Court of Justice, clerks are state officers whose duties are coextensive with the Commonwealth, and who are subject to the administrative control of the Chief Justice.
Official source: Kentucky General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Kentucky statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.