Franklin County, KY Code Violation Reporting: How to Report (2026)

Franklin County Code § 91.05 sets the reporting route for the nuisance subchapter of Chapter 91. The subchapter is enforced when a complaint is filed with the County Judge/Executive, the head of the Fiscal Court, or with the office of Planning and Zoning. The section does not prescribe a complaint form, so the filing itself is the trigger.

Once a complaint is in, the County Enforcement Officer must visit the site of the alleged violation and investigate. The officer asks whether the owner, lessee or occupant of the residential or commercial property is keeping a nuisance there, or is maintaining the premises in a way that causes a substantial diminishing of the value of other property in the area, or that tends to render those properties dangerous or detrimental or adverse to the health and welfare of county residents. If the answer is yes, the enforcement authority serves notice on the owner, lessee, occupant or person having charge of the premises directing that person to abate the nuisance within ten days of receipt of the notice.

The underlying duties sit in the neighboring sections. Section 91.02 bars anyone owning, leasing, occupying or having charge of residential or commercial property from maintaining, creating or permitting a nuisance. Section 91.03 reaches partially dismantled, wrecked, junked or non-operating motor vehicles left longer than 30 days, and § 91.04 reaches abandoned or non-inhabitable mobile or manufactured homes and campers left longer than 30 days. Under § 91.06 the Fiscal Court pays for demolition and compaction of an abandoned mobile home or camper into a dumpster and cleaning of the site, the owner keeps the remaining disposal costs, and unpaid costs become a lien filed with the County Court Clerk with interest at 1% per annum.

These rules cover land outside the City of Frankfort. A problem inside Frankfort belongs to the city, which has its own code.