Kentucky Revised Statutes
Includes enactments through the 2024 Regular Session
Chapter titles, centered headings, section catchlines, and explanatory notes are for informational purposes only and do not constitute any part of the law. For general laws governing construction of statutes, see KRS Chapter 446.
The KRS database was last updated on 11/21/2024
.010 Recovery of rent -- Interest -- Persons entitled to and liable for.
.020 Property subject to distress or attachment for rent -- Damages for illegal distraint, attachment, or wrongful removal.
.030 Attachment for rent -- Procedure.
.040 Repealed, 1976.
.050 Repealed, 1976.
.060 Repealed, 1976.
.061 Repealed, 1976.
.062 Repealed, 1976.
.063 Repealed, 1976.
.064 Repealed, 1976.
.065 Repealed, 1976.
.066 Repealed, 1976.
.067 Repealed, 1976.
.068 Repealed, 1976.
.070 Lien for rent -- Priority of.
.080 Rights of other lienholders on property of tenant as against landlord.
.085 Assistance animals -- Reasonable accommodations in dwellings -- Limitation of liability -- Penalty for misrepresentation of an assistance animal.
.090 Recovery of rent in absence of written contract.
.100 Attornment -- When void -- When unnecessary.
.110 Landlord's lien for money or supplies furnished -- Enforcement of lien.
.120 Contract for portion of crop for rent -- Rights of landlord -- Purchasers of crops.
.130 Tenancy under contract to labor forfeited by breach.
.140 Repealed, 1974.
.150 Repealed, 1974.
.160 Holding over beyond term -- Tenancy created by -- Rights of parties.
.170 Buildings destroyed without fault of tenant -- Replacement of, and rent on.
.180 Conveyance of greater estate than owned, and assignment of tenancy -- Effect.
.190 Death of tenant for life -- Effect on lease of tenant for year.
.195 Termination of tenancy at will or by sufferance.
.198 Prohibition against landlord or tenant ordinance in conflict with state law.
.200 Definitions of forcible entry and detainer.
.205 Time when tenancy created immaterial.
.210 Issual and form of warrant -- Jury not summoned unless demanded.
.215 Execution of warrant.
.220 Return of warrant -- Jury -- Oath.
.225 Repealed, 1978.
.230 Witnesses, subpoenas and coercion of attendance.
.235 Verdict -- Procedure in case of disagreement.
.240 Form of judgment.
.245 Proceedings upon failure to file appeal -- Form and issual of warrant of restitution.
.250 Preservation of papers, records and proceedings -- Transcript.
.255 Time for filing appeal -- Deposit of money with clerk -- Return of papers or transcript to circuit court.
.260 Recovery of damages and expenses.
.265 Repealed, 1978.
.270 Proceedings on judgments of circuit court.
.275 Restraint of waste.
.280 Actions for trespass, waste, rent or profits not barred.
.285 Limitation of action.
.300 Protections for person with rental or lease agreement who is protected by domestic violence order or interpersonal protective order.
.302 Prohibited inclusion in rental or lease agreement of authority to terminate on the basis of tenant's request for assistance in emergencies.
.500 Local governments authorized to adopt provisions of the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act in their entirety and without amendment.
.505 Purposes -- Policies.
.510 Principles of law and equity.
.515 Construction.
.520 Administration of remedies -- Enforcement.
.525 Settlement of disputed claim or right.
.530 Repealed, 1984.
.535 Exclusions from application.
.540 Jurisdiction -- Service of process.
.545 Definitions.
.550 "Good faith" obligation.
.555 Unconscionability.
.560 Notice.
.565 Terms and conditions of rental agreement.
.570 Prohibited provisions.
.575 Separation of rents and obligations.
.580 Security deposits.
.585 Disclosure.
.590 Possession of premises.
.595 Landlord's maintenance obligations and agreements.
.600 Limitation of liability.
.605 Tenant's maintenance obligations.
.610 Rules and regulations.
.615 Access.
.620 Tenant's use and occupancy.
.625 Noncompliance by landlord.
.630 Landlord's failure to deliver possession.
.635 Remedies for noncompliance that affects health and safety.
.640 Wrongful failure to supply essential services.
.645 Landlord's noncompliance as defense to action for possession or rent.
.650 Fire or casualty damage.
.655 Tenant's remedies for unlawful ouster, exclusion or diminution of service.
.660 Tenant's noncompliance with rental agreement -- Failure to pay rent.
.665 Tenant's failure to maintain.
.670 Remedies for absence, nonuse and abandonment.
.675 Waiver of landlord's right to terminate.
.680 Landlord's lien or security interest -- Distraint for rent.
.685 Remedy after termination.
.690 Recovery of possession limited.
.695 Periodic tenancy -- Holdover remedies.
.700 Remedies for abuse of access.
.705 Retaliatory conduct.
.710 Repealed, 1984.
.715 Title of law.