Kentucky Landlord-Tenant Laws
Kentucky Security deposits
Kentucky has no statewide security-deposit law: the deposit statute, KRS 383.580, applies only in the cities and counties that have adopted Kentucky's optional Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act by local ordinance — including Louisville-Jefferson County, Lexington-Fayette, Covington, and roughly sixteen other documented adopters — and everywhere else the lease alone governs deposits.
Kentucky Rent increase notice
Kentucky has no statute requiring advance notice of a rent increase, no limit on how large an increase can be, and no limit on how often rent can rise — anywhere in the state.
Kentucky Late fees
Kentucky has no statutory cap on residential late fees and no mandatory grace period — neither in the jurisdictions that have adopted the state's optional Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act nor in the rest of the state, where no landlord-tenant fee statute exists at all.
Kentucky Entry notice
Kentucky landlords must give at least two days' notice before entering a rental — but only in the cities and counties that have adopted the state's optional Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, such as Louisville, Lexington, Covington, and the other documented adopters; in most of Kentucky there is no entry statute at all, and absent an emergency or a lease clause the landlord needs the tenant's permission.
How this record was verified: Every load-bearing section read verbatim from official Kentucky LRC statute PDFs at apps.legislature.ky.gov (KRS 383.500, 383.580, 383.615, 383.695, 383.565, 383.570, 383.660, 383.535, 383.195, 383.198, 383.199, and 65.875), each with an independent second read on the FindLaw mirror (current through 2025-01-01) that matched — Justia, the usual second host, returned 403 throughout, so FindLaw served as the mirror. A third corroborating read of 383.565/.570/.580/.615/.695 came via the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Human Rights Commission's booklet of Ordinance No. 98-84 (the LFUCG URLTA adoption), whose reproduced text matched. The URLTA adopter list is from the Fort Knox Legal Assistance Office brief (US Army, government source) corroborated by a Kentucky landlord-side attorney's published list; no official registry exists. 2026 Regular Session (adjourned sine die 2026-04-15) swept via official bill pages and the LRC chapter listing, which is current through the 2026 RS and shows no amendments to any section used here.