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64.430 Fee-bills due and distrainable, when.

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64.430 Fee-bills due and distrainable, when. (1) All fees are due and payable within two (2) months after the services are rendered. <br>(2) The fee for the attendance of a witness may be distrained for immediately after it is due, and shall retain its distrainable power for three (3) years, after which it shall <br>only be collectible as other debts of like quality. (3) The fees of all officers shall be distrainable on and after January 1 next ensuing the rendition of the services; and whether an officer lists the same or not, it shall retain <br>its distrainable force for three (3) years, after which it shall only be collectible as <br>other debts of like quality. (4) When the officer rendering the services makes an affidavit on the back of the fee- bill that the person it is against is about to leave the state with his effects, or that he <br>intends and is about to fraudulently sell or dispose of his effects with the intent of <br>hindering and delaying his creditors in the collection thereof, the officer's fees may <br>be distrained for immediately after the services are rendered. Effective: October 1, 1942 <br>History: Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 1751, 1753.