KRS 67.160

The county judge/executive may rent, for the period that a courthouse is being built or repaired, or cannot be used, a house not more than a mile and one quarter from the public square or courthouse site, as a temporary courthouse. He may also rent, for the period that the clerk's office or jail is being built or repaired, a house within the same distance of the public square or courthouse site, as a temporary clerk's office or jail. The rent for such temporary courthouse, clerk's office or jail shall be paid out of the county treasury.