Why should her name be printed on the marriage licenses?
The County Clerk normally certifies marriage licenses by affixing her name to the license as authority.
Subsection (1) of KRS 402.100 deals with the authorization statement of the clerk and vital information required of the marriage license section proper, including the date and place the license is issued, and the signature of the county clerk or deputy clerk issuing the license.
Subsection (2) of KRS 402.100 provides for a marriage certificate, which includes a statement by the person performing the marriage ceremony that the ceremony was performed. That statement must include the name and title of the person performing the ceremony, the names of the persons married, the date and place of the marriage, and the names of two witnesses. That marriage certificate shall also include a statement by the person performing the marriage ceremony as to his legal qualification under KRS Chapter 402 to perform the ceremony, such statement to include the name of the county or city where his license to perform Kentucky marriages was issued, or, in the case of religious societies authorized by KRS 402.050(1)(c) to solemnize marriages, the name of the city or county where the religious society is incorporated. In view of the 1996 repeal of KRS 402.060, which had required a minister or priest to obtain a license to perform a marriage, that section of KRS 402.100(2) requiring the person performing the marriage to set forth the county or city where his or her license to perform marriage ceremonies was issued is no loner applicable. The marriage certificate must also contain a dated signature of the person performing the ceremony.
Pursuant to KRS 402.100(2)(d), there must be entered in such record a signed statement by the county clerk (or deputy clerk) of the county in which the marriage license was issued that the marriage certificate was recorded. Such statement must indicate the name of the county and the date the marriage certificate was recorded.
Subsection (3) of KRS 402.100 sets forth the information to be entered in the certificate to be delivered by the person solemnizing the marriage ceremony to the parties married.
KRS 402.110 states that the form of marriage license prescribed in KRS 402.100 shall be uniform throughout the state and every license blank shall contain the identical words and figures prescribed by that statute.
Delivery of license
In issuing the license the clerk must deliver it in its entirety to the licensee. The clerk shall see to it that every blank space required to be filled out by the applicants is filled out before delivering it to the licensee.
Issuance when clerk is absent
KRS 402.240 provides that in the absence of the county clerk, or during a vacancy in the office, the county judge/executive may issue the license and, in so doing, he shall perform the duties and incur all the responsibilities of the clerk. The county judge/executive shall return a memorandum to that effect to the clerk and the memorandum shall be recorded as if the license had been issued by the clerk.
http://e-archives.ky.gov/Pubs/AG/clerks_guide_marriage_law%281996%29.htm#Prohibited and Restricted Marriages