Asher, Treasurer v. Stacy

Obinion or the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Affirming’.

The sharp question is whether a comma in a statute should be regarded as the word “and.”

Kentucky Revised Statutes 213.150, a section of the chapter relating to the Division of Vital Statistics in the Department of Health, reads in part as follows: “Each local registrar, physician or registered midwife-shall be entitled to be paid the sum of twenty-five cents for each birth certificate and each death certificate-properly and completely made out and registered with or reported by him, and correctly copied and duly returned to the Division…