Kentucky Eviction Laws
Kentucky's URLTA provides meaningful eviction protections in the counties that have adopted it, requiring 15 days to cure lease violations and 7 days for nonpayment.
Key Rules
- Notice Period
- 30 days for month-to-month tenancy (URLTA counties)
- Just Cause Required
- No statewide just-cause requirement
- Cure Or Quit Period
- 15 days to cure lease violations; 7 days for nonpayment (URLTA counties)
- Url Ta Adoption
- URLTA applies only in counties that have adopted it (includes Louisville and Lexington)
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Applicable Statutes
Noncompliance by tenant: in URLTA counties, landlord must give written notice specifying the breach; tenant has 15 days to remedy a remediable material noncompliance.
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“383.660 Tenant's noncompliance with rental agreement -- Failure to pay rent. (1) Except as provided in KRS 383.505 to 383.715, if there is a material noncomp…”
Termination of periodic tenancy: in URLTA counties, month-to-month tenancy may be terminated with at least 30 days written notice.
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“383.695 Periodic tenancy -- Holdover remedies. (1) The landlord or the tenant may terminate a week-to-week tenancy by a written notice given to the other at…”
Ky. Rev. Stat. § 383.660(2)
Nonpayment of rent: in URLTA counties, landlord must give 7 days written notice to pay or vacate before filing for eviction.
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