Georgetown, KY Curfew Laws: Juvenile Curfew (2026)

Section 28-2 sets two curfew windows. Under subsection (b)(1), it is unlawful for any person under the age of 18 years to be or remain in or upon any public assembly, building, place, street or highway within the city between 1:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday, and between 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. Sunday through Friday. Subsection (b)(2) separately makes it unlawful for a parent or guardian having legal custody to allow a minor to be in those places during those periods when no exception applies.

The definitions matter for parents. A minor is any person under 18. Parent covers a natural or adoptive parent, a legal guardian, a person who stands in loco parentis and a person given legal custody by court order. To allow means to permit or neglect to prevent, and it requires actual or constructive knowledge: the parent must actually know, or the circumstances must be such that a reasonably prudent parent should have known.

Subsection (c) lists ten exceptions: accompaniment by a parent or guardian; accompaniment by an adult authorized by a parent or guardian; exercising First Amendment rights with written notice signed by the minor and countersigned by a parent; reasonable necessity after the parent has told the police department the facts; being on the sidewalk of the minor's residence or of a next-door neighbor who has not objected; returning home by a direct route within one hour after a school, religious or other voluntary association activity ends; activities authorized by a mayoral regulation; work the state authorizes a person under 18 to perform; riding with parental consent in a vehicle with a lawfully authorized driver; and a licensed minor driver passing through by direct route.

Under subsection (d), a police officer who is notified of a minor in a public place can stop and question the minor and ask for the minor's name and age and the name and address of the parent or guardian. If the officer has reasonable cause to believe a violation occurred, the officer can collect the information needed to cite the parent and then take the minor home or direct the minor to go home immediately.