The following judicial circuits are entitled to three (3) Circuit Judges and shall have three

1. (3) numbered divisions of the Circuit Court:
2. (1) Second Judicial Circuit.
3. (2) Seventeenth Judicial Circuit.
4. (3) Thirty-fifth Judicial Circuit.
5. (4) Forty-eighth Judicial Circuit.
6. (5) Fifty-fifth Judicial Circuit.

Effective: January 2, 2023

History: Amended 2022 Ky. Acts ch. 129, sec. 3, effective January 2, 2023. -- Amended 2018 Ky. Acts ch. 57, sec. 3, effective July 14, 2018; and ch. 57, sec. 7, effective January 2, 2023. -- Amended 2017 Ky. Acts ch. 75, sec. 2, effective March 21, 2017. -- Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 250, Pt. V, sec. 2, effective January 1, 2007. -- Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 173, Pt. XIII, 1.(3), sec. 2, effective July 15, 2006. -- Amended 2003 Ky. Acts ch. 66, sec. 5, effective June 24, 2003. -- Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 541, sec. 2, effective July 1, 2000. -- Created 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 517, secs. 4 and 12, effective September 1, 1998, and September 1, 1999. Legislative Research Commission Note (3/21/2017). 2017 Ky. Acts ch. 75, sec. 4, provides that the amendments to this statute in Section 2 of that Act apply retroactively to April 16, 2016. Legislative Research Commission Note (1/1/2007). 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 250, Pt. V, sec. 6, provides that the new judgeships created by subsections (3) and (10) of this statute shall become effective January 1, 2007.