WILHOIT, Judge.
The appellee, Cross Creek Apartments, Ltd., is a federally subsidized housing project for qualified low-income tenants. The appellant, Linda Fickey, who is indigent, was formerly a tenant of the appellee and resided in a government subsidized apartment. On March 11, 1983, the appel-lee filed a forcible detainer action against the appellant alleging that she had violated provisions of her lease by allowing an unauthorized person to live there and by failing to have the lease recertified when her income increased (a requirement to get governmental assistance). A jury in the Hopkins District Court concluded that the appellant had materially breached her lease and found her guilty of a forcible detainer. The appellant then filed a notice of appeal, but the Hopkins Circuit Court dismissed the appeal since the appellant had not deposited rental monies with the circuit court as required by KRS 383.255. The appellant filed a motion to vacate the order dismissing the appeal, but the motion was denied by the circuit court. This Court then granted discretionary review but limited the review to the issue of whether KRS 383.255 is constitutional insofar as it would *808require an indigent person to deposit with the circuit court clerk the amount of rent due from the onset of the forcible detainer action as a condition precedent to maintaining an appeal to the circuit court.