(1) If the office of any county clerk has been vacated, leaving any instrument recorded in his office, the original of which has never been taken therefrom, and in the record of which, or the authentication thereof, there is a deviation from the original, the successor shall correct such record by making it an exact copy of the original instrument and authentication.
(2) Whenever the clerk who has vacated his office has failed to put his name to the certificate on any instrument which he has recorded, or to the record thereof, and the original has not been removed from his office, the successor shall sign the name of his predecessor to the certificate, and shall make a note on the record at the foot of the certificate, of any act so done.
Effective: October 1, 1942
History: Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky.
Stat. sec. 509.