Kentucky Revised Statutes

Ky. Rev. Stat. § 61.010 (2026)

Office not to be sold -- Penalty -- Contracts to sell are void

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(1) No civil or military office or post of profit, trust, or honor under this state, nor the deputation thereof, in whole or in part, shall be sold or let to farm by any person holding or expecting to hold it. (2) Any person selling, letting, buying, or receiving the letting of any office or post, or with whose knowledge it has been bought for him by another, shall be disqualified from holding the office or post, or the deputation thereof, and, upon conviction, shall be expelled therefrom. (3) Except as to bonds of indemnity from a deputy and his sureties given to a chief officer, every contract or security made or obtained in violation of this section shall be void. Effective: October 1, 1942 History: Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 3740, 3741.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case, 1949–1949 · leading case: Baker v. Wilson, 221 S.W.2d 690 (Ky. Ct. App. 1949).

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Baker v. Wilson, 221 S.W.2d 690 (Ky. Ct. App. 1949). · cites it 2× “040 of KRS *694 prescribes that any officer or deputy officer holding any of the offices prescribed in section 61.010 of the same statute, upon conviction of any felony shall vacate his office, and it is argued by appellant that since he is only indicted for a felony but not yet…”

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