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KRS 64.410

How fee-bills made out -- Provisions concerning

Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case Funk v. Milliken (1958)

Most recently applied in Kraus v. Kentucky State Senate (March 1994)

Effective: October 1, 1942 History: Recodified 1942 Ky

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(1) The fee-bills of every officer shall be made out at length, in figures and in plain English, and signed by the officer in his official capacity.

(2) No officer shall demand or receive for his services:

(a) Any other or greater fee than is allowed by law;

(b) Any fee for services rendered when the law has not fixed a compensation therefor;

(c) Any fee for services not actually rendered.

(3) Where there are more plaintiffs or defendants than one (1) in an action and they sever in their pleadings or otherwise, so that part of them cause an officer to render separate services for him or them, for which the others ought not to be liable, the fees for such services shall be charged separately to those for whom the service is rendered.

(4) No officer in making out his fee-bill shall omit the name of any person properly chargeable therewith, or insert the name of a person not properly chargeable.

(5) Fees against a person acting in a trust capacity shall be made out against him in such capacity and he shall only be liable therefor to the extent of the trust funds in his hands liable to the payment thereof.

(6) No fee-bill shall be made out, or compensation allowed hereafter, for any ex officio services rendered by any officer.

Official source: Kentucky General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Kentucky statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.