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186.230 County clerk's duties -- Lien on vehicle, effect -- Issuance of plate without collecting taxes and fees prohibited.

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186.230 County clerk's duties -- Lien on vehicle, effect -- Issuance of plate without collecting taxes and fees prohibited. The county clerk shall see that KRS 186.005 to 186.260 in his county are enforced. In so <br>doing, he shall: <br>(1) Take all applications as provided in KRS 186.005 to 186.260; <br>(2) Issue the receipts on blanks furnished by the cabinet; <br>(3) Collect the fees due the state; <br>(4) Distribute the registration plates furnished by the Transportation Cabinet and Department of Vehicle Regulation and keep a complete public record of all <br>registrations for his county, in his office; (5) Report and remit each Monday to the Transportation Cabinet all moneys collected during the previous week, together with a duplicate of all receipts issued by him <br>during the same period. He shall make all checks payable to the State Treasurer. <br>Unless the clerk forwards duplicates of all receipts issued by him during the <br>reporting period with his report and remits the amount shown due by the report <br>within seven (7) days after the report and remittance are due, he shall pay a penalty <br>of one percent (1%) per month or fraction thereof on the amount of money shown to <br>be due on the report. The cabinet may in its discretion grant a county clerk a <br>reasonable extension of time to file his report and remit all moneys not to exceed <br>ten (10) days for any one (1) report. The extension however must be requested prior <br>to the end of the seven (7) day period and shall begin to run at the end of said <br>period. All penalties collected under this provision shall be paid into the State <br>Treasury as a part of the revenue collected under KRS 186.005 to 186.260; (6) The clerk shall mail to the Transportation Cabinet one (1) duplicate of all receipts issued by him within two (2) weeks of the date of issuance. The Transportation <br>Cabinet shall make the receipts pertaining to commercial vehicles available to the <br>Department of Vehicle Regulation for use in assimilating data therefrom; (7) Account to the Transportation Cabinet for all registration plates and receipt forms consigned to him, at such time or times as the Transportation Cabinet may direct, <br>and give the appropriate cabinet timely notice of a probable deficiency of plates or <br>other supplies; (8) Any county clerk, who in collecting the taxes and fees due the state or county clerk, accepts in payment thereof a check which is not honored upon presentment, shall <br>have a lien on the vehicle for the amount of such check. This lien shall be <br>subordinate to any prior perfected lien, either contractual or statutory; (9) No person shall be permitted to sell, trade or transfer ownership of a motor vehicle if evidence is presented to the county clerk that any lien exists on the motor vehicle; <br>and (10) The county clerk shall not issue to any manufacturer or dealer any registration plate other than a manufacturer's or dealer's plate, or registration plate which is under a <br>dealer assignment pursuant to KRS 186A.230, except when the dealer registers a <br>motor vehicle under a U-Drive-It permit, without collecting designated registration <br>fees and applicable taxes. Effective: July 15, 1986 <br>History: Amended 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 431, sec. 13, effective July 15, 1986. -- Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 239, sec. 16, effective June 17, 1978. -- Amended 1976 Ky. Acts <br>ch. 133, sec. 13, effective June 19, 1976. -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 74, Art. IV, <br>sec. 20(2), (7), (9). -- Amended 1964 Ky. Acts ch. 59, sec. 3. -- Amended 1962 Ky. <br>Acts ch. 62, sec. 14, effective January 1, 1963. -- Amended 1960 Ky. Acts ch. 37, <br>sec. 3. -- Amended 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 78, sec. 11. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts <br>ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 2739g-62, 2739g-63.