HB 824

UNOFFICIAL COPY  26 RS BR 1896
1AN ACT relating to state government.
2 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:
3Section 1. KRS 56.020 is amended to read as follows:
4 (1)    The Secretary of State shall have custody of all records, judgments, deeds, maps
5and abstracts of title of land or buildings owned for governmental purposes by the
6state except deeds to rights-of-way for state or federal roads. In this section, "roads"
7does not include state-owned bridges or their approaches.
8 (2)    The Secretary of State shall record all the deeds in a separate book and shall file,
9keep and have accessible the originals of all papers mentioned in subsection (1) of
10this section, and the books in which they are recorded. He or she shall index and
11cross-index the original papers and record books, including an index according to
12the county where the property is located and according to the use or department of
13the state government using the property. The records and indexes shall not be
14moved from the Office of the Secretary of State.
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