McCracken County, KY Fence Regulations: Height Limits (2026)

Fiscal Court's property maintenance ordinance treats a fence, structure, or planting that destroys sight distance as a public nuisance rather than setting numeric height limits in feet for the front, side, and rear yard. Under § 110.13(G), 'visual obstructions of streets,' it is a nuisance to permit any hedge, shrubbery, fence, structure, object, or other visual obstruction on a lot that prohibits proper sight distance to the extent it becomes a hazard to persons or property using the adjacent sidewalks, streets, or public ways, which functionally governs fence height and placement near intersections and driveways in place of a fixed visibility-triangle table.

Section 110.13(H)(2) separately requires that all fences and walls be structurally sound and maintained in good repair; a leaning, rotting, or collapsing fence is grouped with dilapidated structures under § 110.13(H). Both provisions are enforced the same way as the rest of Chapter 110: the Code Enforcement Officer issues a notice of violation or citation under § 110.20, an immediately dangerous fence, one actively blocking sight lines at a blind corner, for example, can be ordered abated right after the citation, and the property owner can be billed for county or contractor abatement work.

Fines follow § 110.99 unless another amount is listed: $500 for a first offense, $1,000 for a second, and $2,000 for every offense after that, with a per-day fine of up to $100, capped at 60 days, available once a third citation issues on the same case.