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Kentucky Revised Statutes · § 440.110 — Proclamation offering reward -- Publication

440.110. Proclamation offering reward -- Publication

(1) Whenever the Governor issues a proclamation offering a reward for a fugitive from justice or anyone charged with crime, he shall designate in his proclamation the jail to which the prisoner shall be delivered. It need not be the jail of the county where the offense was committed.

(2) The Governor may order the proclamation published in a newspaper if he deems it proper under the circumstances and to the interest of the state. If he orders it published, he shall designate the paper or papers in which the publication shall be made and the number of times it shall be inserted. The account for such publication, with the approval of the Governor endorsed on it, shall be paid out of the State Treasury.

Source notes

Effective: October 1, 1942

History and annotations

Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 1933.

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