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Bath County County Clerk

Bath County's elected County Clerk is Roger Coyle. The official Bath County elected-officials page lists the Clerk at P.O. Box 609, Owingsville, KY 40360, phone 606-674-2613, and fax 606-674-2613. The Bath County Clerk open-records page gives a separate hand-delivery address for requests, 17 West Main Street, Owingsville, KY 40360, and an open-records fax of 606-674-9526. Use the open-records page fax for open-records submissions because it is the record-request source.

The County Clerk website describes Roger Coyle's office as responsible for motor vehicle licensing, voter registration, elections, recording land records, issuing marriage licenses, notary bonds, and processing delinquent real-estate taxes. The Clerk is not the court case-file custodian. That split is central in Bath County because court services are now housed at the Bath County Judicial Center, while County Clerk recordings and licenses use the County Clerk channels.

The Bath County Clerk home page identifies the local Clerk office and its record categories.

The office website is the best county source for marriage licenses, recorded wills, land records, liens, forms, open records, and Clerk contact routes.

Bath County Clerk Record Types

The County Clerk handles records that often touch court users but are not court case files. A divorce decree is a Circuit Court record, but a marriage license is a County Clerk record. A probate order is a District Court record, but the will recorded after probate is a County Clerk record. A judgment may appear in a court file, but lien or land-record consequences can require County Clerk recording research.

Bath County Marriage Licenses

The Bath County Clerk issues marriage licenses in the County Clerk's office. The local marriage-license page states that both bride and groom must appear together, the license is valid for 30 days from the date issued, the fee is nonrefundable, and the license must be used within Kentucky. The accessible Bath page did not publish the dollar amount, so applicants should call 606-674-2613 before going to the office.

There is no official Bath County online marriage-record search portal in the research. For local license records, use the County Clerk in person or the Clerk's open-records procedure. For a certified Kentucky marriage certificate, use the Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics. That state certificate process is separate from the local license issuance process and requires a completed application and fee before OVS searches.

1. Call the County Clerk to confirm current fee, hours, payment method, and ID requirements.
2. Both parties appear together in the County Clerk office.
3. Provide identifying information requested by the Clerk.
4. Pay the nonrefundable license fee.
5. Use the license within 30 days and within Kentucky.

Bath County Recorded Wills

Recorded wills are one of the clearest examples of the Bath split between courts and county recordings. The Bath County Clerk's wills page says wills must be admitted for probate in District Court and an order must be issued by the District Court judge. Once probated, the will must be recorded in the County Clerk's office along with the order appointing administrator or executor of the estate. The County Clerk permanently retains the original copy of the will.

For out-of-county Kentucky wills, the Clerk may record a will probated in another Kentucky county if an attested or certified copy of the will and probate order from the original County Clerk is presented. For out-of-state wills, the Clerk must ensure the will has passed through Kentucky probate court in the county and includes a Kentucky probate court certificate, with authenticated or exemplified copies and the resident-state certificate of probate.

Disclaimers and renunciations also touch the County Clerk. Disclaimers are filed in District Court, but an attested copy involving real property may be recorded in the County Clerk office of the county where the real estate is situated. Renunciation must be made within six months after probate and recorded as described by the Clerk's will page.

Bath County Clerk Open Records

The Bath County Clerk open-records procedure is the main fallback when no online Clerk search portal exists. The Clerk's page says open records requests must be submitted using the appropriate form. It links to the Attorney General's standardized open-records request form and advisory on who may submit requests. If a requester cannot print the form, a written request must include the requester's name, phone number, address, the precise documents requested, residency of the applicant, and any other information that may help the office fulfill the request.

The Bath County Clerk open-records page lists the local request process and payment rule.

The page also states that fees for open-records requests must be paid in advance before copies can be obtained.

Bath County Land and Lien Records

The Bath County Clerk website includes separate pages for deeds and liens. The deeds page covers local recording requirements for deed-related documents and mobile-home conversion. The liens page lists local recording categories for agister liens, mechanics liens, materialman liens, and related lien types. Because the research found topic pages but no public Bath land-record search portal, recorded land and lien research should use the County Clerk's office, forms page, and open-records request channels.

Land and lien records can overlap with court work, but the records are still different. A lawsuit over real-property title is a Circuit Court matter. A recorded deed, recorded lien, release, or mobile-home conversion document is a County Clerk recording. When a search involves both a judgment and recorded lien activity, check the court file through the Circuit Court Clerk and the recording through the County Clerk.

Note: Do not use a court docket result as proof that a deed, lien, or release has been recorded.

Bath County Clerk Forms

The County Clerk forms page is the local source for downloadable office forms and form categories. The contact page also has a web contact form with Name, Email Address, Message, a math captcha, and a Submit button. For record requests, the open-records page is more specific than the general contact page, but the contact form may help with office questions when the user is not yet ready to file a formal request.

The Bath County Clerk contact page shows the office's web contact form fields.

The contact form is a general communication tool; formal open-records requests should follow the open-records instructions and include the required request details.

Bath County Clerk Fee Notes

The research located fee rules but not a full Bath County Clerk fee schedule. Marriage license fees are nonrefundable, but the amount was not visible in the captured Bath source. Open-records request fees must be paid in advance before copies can be obtained. For recorded wills, deeds, liens, certifications, and other recorded instruments, verify the current fee with Roger Coyle's office before submitting documents.

County Clerk vs Circuit Clerk

The County Clerk should not be used for Bath court case records. For Circuit Court, District Court, Family/Circuit matters, traffic cases, criminal files, divorce decrees, District Court probate filings, dockets, court fines, bonds, or certified court copies, use the Bath County Circuit Court Clerk. For County Clerk recordings, licenses, notary bonds, elections, motor vehicles, land records, liens, and open-records requests for Clerk-held documents, use Roger Coyle's office.