Georgetown, KY

Georgetown prohibits radios, televisions, instruments, and similar sound devices that are plainly audible through apartment walls, inside another property's dwelling, from the…

Georgetown treats noise from car engines as a noise disturbance when it is plainly audible at 50 feet or greater, within a dwelling on another property, from the right-of-way into a…

In Georgetown, machinery and construction noise reasonable to the nature of the work is not prohibited from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Between 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., such noise plainly…

In Georgetown, a dog's barking is a noise violation when it is plainly audible at 50 feet or more from the source, inside a dwelling on another property, through multifamily walls, or…

Georgetown requires every owner of a tree overhanging a street or right-of-way to prune it so there is a clear space of eight feet above the sidewalk and 14 feet above the street…

Georgetown protects natural landscaping. Its code says it is lawful to grow native and naturalized plants to any height, including ferns, wildflowers, grasses, forbs, shrubs and trees…

Georgetown requires a free city permit before anyone works on a public tree, including removing it. Removing a street or park tree without authority means replacing it with a tree of…

In Georgetown, untended, rank or unmanaged vegetation that exceeds ten inches in height violates the property maintenance code, and the rule applies to all property inside the city…

Georgetown's water restriction rule is an emergency power in section 40-430. The city water and sewer board of commissioners can declare an emergency by a two-thirds majority and…

Georgetown does not allow anyone to ignite an open fire without a permit from the fire marshal or the fire chief's designee. Section 16-1 charges a $50.00 permit fee, keeps fires 50…

Georgetown prohibits the use or sale of fireworks at all times, with an exception for consumer fireworks defined in KRS 227.702(1). Where firing is allowed, it runs from 10:00 a.m. to…

Georgetown lets owners keep battery-powered smoke detectors if the premises have a sufficient number in operational condition. When a building is renovated or modified so that wiring…

Kentucky law restricts brush and natural debris burning under KRS 149.400, allowing only natural plant matter to be burned and prohibiting daytime burns near woodland during forest…

Kentucky State Fire Marshal regulates LP-gas storage statewide under KRS 234.180 and 815 KAR 10:060, requiring NFPA 58 compliance and permits for installation of all flammable and…

A Georgetown, Kentucky short-term rental host pays a nonrefundable $25.00 annual registration fee, with no extra fee for multiple rentals on one form, and a three percent transient…

Short-term rental occupancy in Georgetown, Kentucky is limited to two adult guests per bedroom plus no more than two additional adults, with a hard maximum of ten persons per rental…

Georgetown, Kentucky lets the Revenue Commission director order a hosting platform to remove an unregistered, expired or revoked short-term rental listing, and the platform must act…

No one may own or operate a short-term rental in Georgetown, Kentucky unless it is registered annually with the Georgetown-Scott County Revenue Commission. The registration must…

In Georgetown, Kentucky, the director of the Revenue Commission can revoke a short-term rental registration when the property has two or more civil violations, or the host has twice…

In Georgetown the city engineer designates parking and loading zones for passenger and freight vehicles, and § 38-109(a)(15) bars stopping, standing or parking in a loading zone except…

Georgetown bars stopping, standing or parking within two feet of a public or private driveway, bars blocking the driveway entrance of an abutting property from an alley, and requires…

Georgetown Code § 38-109(a)(7) prohibits stopping, standing or parking at any place where the curb is painted yellow, and (a)(21) extends the ban to any place where official signs or…

During a declared snow emergency in Georgetown, no one can park a vehicle, trailer, storage container or equipment on a street designated as an emergency snow route. During any snow…

Georgetown Code § 26-2(10) makes storing a motor vehicle unfit for further use, a motor vehicle in inoperative condition, or automobile parts within the city limits a public nuisance…

Georgetown designates Dudley Avenue, Clayton Avenue, Hollyhock Lane and Jackson Street near Georgetown College as a college parking district. Dudley Avenue is permit only, Clayton…

Georgetown Code § 38-109 lists 21 places where no person shall stop, stand or park, including on a sidewalk, within five feet of a fire hydrant, and anywhere but with the right-hand…

Georgetown makes it unlawful to park a commercial vehicle on a residential street, excepting loading and unloading activities. A separate rule bars parking trucks above a one-ton…

Georgetown prohibits parking any vehicle on a street or city-owned parking lot for more than 24 hours and declares such a vehicle a public nuisance. A police officer or citation…

In Georgetown it is unlawful to park a vehicle, boat, camper or trailer in the front yard of a residential structure except upon a residential driveway or parking lot. Property owners…

If you reach your car while it is being towed from a private lot in Kentucky, KRS 281.924(5) requires the towing company to tell you, orally or in writing, that you may pay no more…

In Georgetown, no dog can run at large unless it is under the immediate control of its owner or handler. Off the owner's premises that means a leash, portable pet carrier or other…

Georgetown allows dogs and cats to be sold at retail only through a pet store, stockyard or breeding establishment licensed by the city. Section 6-28 adds care standards, including 140…

Georgetown does not regulate dogs by breed. Sec. 6-23 prohibits keeping any vicious animal, defined by conduct: attacking, biting or injuring people or domesticated animals without…

Georgetown prohibits keeping livestock or poultry in the city, with two exceptions: a permitted commercial animal establishment, or a farming operation on property zoned for…

Georgetown bans keeping a vicious animal outright under Section 6-23, and Section 6-26 bars anyone from owning, possessing or having custody of a wild or vicious animal for display…

Georgetown makes it unlawful to kill, injure, pursue, molest or attempt to injure any bird within the city, other than birds of a predatory nature. The same sentence covers squirrels…

Georgetown requires every female cat in heat to be confined in a building or secure enclosure so she cannot contact another animal, unless the owner plans a breeding. An impounded cat…

Kentucky requires beekeepers to register colonies with the State Apiarist and comply with disease inspection requirements. The state regulates apiary health uniformly under KRS Chapter…

Kentucky has no stand-alone hoarding statute. Neglecting a hoard of animals is prosecuted under KRS 525.130 as cruelty to animals in the second degree: cruel neglect, or failing to…

Kentucky bars feeding wildlife statewide from March 1 through July 31 under 301 KAR 2:015, and prohibits feeding and baiting year-round on Wildlife Management Areas. Bird feeders…

In Georgetown, no property owner can build a fence taller than six feet on residentially zoned property. A fence that extends past the front portion of a residence is held to four feet…

In Georgetown, stockade fences are forbidden, barbed wire and razor wire cannot be used in any fence on residentially zoned property, and electrified fences are prohibited in…

Kentucky's division, or partition, fence law, KRS Chapter 256, requires adjoining owners to share the cost of a farm boundary fence between their properties. It applies to agricultural…

Kentucky permits home-based food sales under the Home-Based Processor and Microprocessor program administered by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, with statewide rules that…

Kentucky requires state certification or licensure for any home caring for children from more than one unrelated family, with capacity limits, background checks, and inspection…

Kentucky issues no microenterprise home kitchen permit. You cannot buy a licence to cook meals to order in your own kitchen and sell them to the public. The one route that lets a…

Kentucky regulates public swimming pools, spas, and aquatic facilities through 902 KAR 10:120, setting uniform safety, sanitation, and lifeguard standards. Local health departments…

Georgetown bans soliciting anyone in a street or road. Section 28-7 bars any person from soliciting, approaching, impeding, or otherwise deflecting or interfering with motorists'…

When noise comes from a private party or social event in Georgetown, the responsible person for the offense is any or all of the owner of the premises, the occupant of the premises, or…

Pedestrians in Georgetown's downtown central business district must cross the roadway in a crosswalk. Section 38-80 bans crossing anywhere else in that district, in a single sentence…

Georgetown's smoking ordinance is built around enclosed spaces, and its outdoor reach is narrow: Georgetown Code § 20-26 bans smoking in the seating areas of all outdoor arenas…

Georgetown's Code bars crowd-forming conduct that blocks traffic. Section 38-81 prohibits speeches, demonstrations, sales and sign displays on a sidewalk that cause a gathering…

Georgetown Police Department keeps rotating tow lists at central dispatch for tows it requests, and a wrecker that does not arrive within 30 minutes forfeits the call. Rotation…

Operating a tattoo establishment in Georgetown, Kentucky requires a city license. The application fee is $25.00, waived for renewals, and the license fee is $100.00 per annum. A…

Kentucky regulates retail sales of vapor products through state licensing, age verification, and tax requirements. Retailers must verify ID for buyers under 30 and comply with…

In Georgetown, every household is conclusively presumed to subscribe to the city's collection service through its exclusive solid waste franchisee and must pay the applicable charge…

In Georgetown, no person can deposit solid waste upon any premises, street or alley, public or private, other than as the article prescribes, even with an intent to remove it later…

While an exclusive franchise exists, it is unlawful in Georgetown for anyone other than the exclusive solid waste franchisee to collect recyclable materials, garbage, trash or refuse…

In Georgetown, solid waste containers cannot sit nearer the street than the front façade of the building they serve. They can be at the sidewalk, curb or street only after 6:00 p.m. on…

In Georgetown, new dumpsters in residentially zoned areas need a permit from the building inspector, with a drawing showing compliance. Side yard setbacks are ten feet and rear yard…

Every Georgetown household is conclusively presumed to subscribe to the city's collection service through the exclusive solid waste franchisee and must pay the charge. Containers can…

Kentucky does not require residents or businesses to recycle. State law treats recycling as a policy priority, not a duty. Counties run solid waste programs, and only waste haulers…

In Georgetown the building official can enter and inspect buildings between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., or at any time in an emergency or at the owner's or occupant's request. The…

Georgetown adopts the National Electrical Code, 2014 edition (NFPA 70), by reference. Electrical work needs a permit from the building official under Section 8-2, the installer must…

Georgetown adopts the Kentucky state plumbing code by reference and requires a plumbing installation permit from the county health department before anyone constructs, installs or…

Georgetown requires a permit from the building official before anyone constructs, enlarges, alters, repairs, moves or demolishes a building or structure, changes its occupancy, or…

Anyone in Georgetown who plans to excavate, tear up, repair, obstruct or lay materials on a street, sidewalk, public easement or other right-of-way must first apply to the city…

Georgetown bars anyone from obstructing a street, sidewalk or alley with boxes, barrels, building materials or other substances. Builders can occupy the street and sidewalk next to…

In Georgetown, each property owner must keep the sidewalk bordering the property in good repair. A sidewalk that becomes a danger to the public is a declared public nuisance, and the…

In Georgetown, occupants of lots must remove snow from the sidewalks in front of the lot within 24 hours after the snowfall. A declared snow emergency extends the deadline to 72 hours…

Georgetown Code § 26-2 declares dwellings unfit for human habitation and dilapidated buildings to be public nuisances, and Article II of Chapter 26 adopts Kentucky's blighted and…

In Georgetown, untended, rank and unmanaged vegetation on any property that is visible from a public way or an adjoining property is a public nuisance, and platted lots awaiting a…

Georgetown defines loud and unreasonable noise as noise plainly audible to a reasonable person using unaided hearing. The code says bass counts: the listener need only hear it, such as…

Georgetown keeps no list of banned invasive plants. Its weed section names state-designated noxious plants such as Johnson grass, multiflora rose and kudzu, says they are not per se…

Anyone building or doing other development in a special flood hazard area in Georgetown needs a development permit from the floodplain administrator before work begins. Georgetown Code…

Georgetown requires the lowest floor of new and substantially improved residential structures in special flood hazard areas to sit no lower than two feet above the base flood…

Georgetown prohibits anything but stormwater from entering its storm drains and creeks. Article V of Chapter 40 bars illegal discharges and illicit connections, and the Georgetown…

Georgetown requires a land disturbance permit before anyone disturbs 5,000 square feet or more of soil. Chapter 14, Article III ties each permit to a stormwater pollution prevention…

Georgetown treats hobby drones as model aircraft inside its unmanned aircraft article, Chapter 28, Article IV. Recreational flyers must keep to the 500-foot launch and landing buffers…

In Georgetown, it is prohibited to cause an unmanned aircraft to launch or land within 500 feet of a park. The same 500-foot buffer protects schools and enclosed city buildings. A…

Commercial drone operations in Kentucky require an FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot Certificate, with airspace rules preempting local restrictions. State law adds protections against…

The Georgetown City Council has consented to a syringe exchange program run with the WEDCO Scott County health department. Section 20-1 limits participants to age 18 and up, requires…

Georgetown Code § 26-2(5) makes an accumulation of filth, refuse, trash, garbage or other waste a public nuisance when it endangers public health or attracts and propagates vermin…

Georgetown imposes a three percent transient room tax on the gross rent for every occupancy at motor courts, motels, hotels, inns and short-term rentals in the city. Operators pay…

In Georgetown, Kentucky, no location can be used for a garage sale more than three times in any 12-month period, and no permit or fee is required to hold one. Locations owned by a…

Georgetown city parks are open from 6:30 a.m. March through November, closing at 11:00 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and at 12:00 midnight on Friday and Saturday. From December through…

Georgetown Code § 28-2 makes it unlawful for anyone under 18 to be in a public place from 1:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday, and from 11:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. Sunday through…

Every natural person in Georgetown who peddles goods, wares or merchandise of any kind, or solicits orders for them, pays an annual license fee of $25.00. The fee is paid to the city…

Kentucky's Home Solicitation Sales Act (KRS 367.410-460) universally grants consumers a three-business-day right to cancel any door-to-door sale of $25 or more, with mandatory written…

Georgetown levies an occupational license tax on every person or business entity in business for profit, measured by one percent of wages and compensation paid for work in the city and…

Once a Georgetown code enforcement officer issues a citation, Code § 2-839(a) gives the violator the time stated in the ordinance, or seven days if none is stated, and never less than…

Georgetown Code § 26-2 declares a numbered list of conditions to be public nuisances and prohibits them, including unfit dwellings, dilapidated buildings, rubbish, noxious odors, open…

Georgetown adopts the 2012 International Property Maintenance Code and makes the Code Enforcement Board and the city's code enforcement officers responsible for enforcing it…

In URLTA-adopting Kentucky jurisdictions, KRS 383.660 requires a 7-day written notice to pay or quit for nonpayment of rent. For other material lease violations, the landlord gives a…

In Kentucky cities and counties that adopted URLTA, KRS 383.615 requires a landlord to give at least two days' notice before entering and to enter only at reasonable times, except in…

In URLTA-adopting Kentucky jurisdictions, KRS 383.695 lets either party end a month-to-month tenancy with at least 30 days' written notice before a periodic rental date, a week-to-week…

Kentucky prohibits any local government from enacting rent control on private residential property. KRS 65.875 reserves authority over rents exclusively to the state General Assembly…

Kentucky sets no dollar cap on residential security deposits. Where the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act applies, landlords must hold deposits in a separate account…

Under KRS 413.010, a squatter can claim title only after 15 years of adverse possession of real property. KRS 413.060 shortens the period to 7 years where the occupant holds under…

Georgetown sets planting distances for street trees by size class. Small, medium and large trees must be no closer together than 30, 40 and 50 feet, and no closer to a curb or sidewalk…

In Georgetown, a licensed restaurant that serves food and alcohol can ask the administrator for a seasonal sidewalk cafe permit covering the part of the public sidewalk next to its…

Georgetown requires a bicyclist on a roadway to ride as near to the right-hand side as practicable, and to use a designated bicycle path beside the roadway instead of the road…

Kentucky does not open any street to golf carts by state law. KRS 189.286 lets a city, county, urban-county, charter county, consolidated or unified local government, or special…

Kentucky's Office of Medical Cannabis licenses dispensaries under KRS Chapter 218B with statewide buffer requirements and a local opt-out system, allowing cities and counties to…

Kentucky law prohibits home cultivation of cannabis by patients, caregivers, and the general public. The medical cannabis program created under KRS Chapter 218B does not authorize…

Kentucky law sets the state minimum wage at the federal floor and bars local governments from establishing higher minimum wages. Court rulings have invalidated local ordinances that…

Kentucky has no predictive scheduling law, and state preemption prevents local governments from adopting fair workweek or scheduling ordinances. Employers retain broad discretion to…

Kentucky allows permitless concealed carry for adults 21 and older legally able to possess firearms, while continuing to issue concealed deadly weapon licenses. Local governments…

Kentucky law preempts local firearms regulation, reserving authority to the General Assembly. Cities, counties, and urban-county governments cannot enact ordinances regulating…

Open carry of firearms is generally lawful for adults in Kentucky who can legally possess a firearm. State preemption prevents local governments from banning open carry, though…

Kentucky allows lawful adults to carry firearms openly or concealed inside a motor vehicle without a permit. Permitless concealed carry at 21 and statewide preemption prevent local…

Every food truck operating in Kentucky needs a statewide mobile food unit permit, issued by the operator's home-county local health department under the Cabinet for Health and Family…

Kentucky's Office of Charitable Gaming, under the Kentucky Horse Racing and Gaming Corporation, licenses every charitable organization running bingo, raffles, or charity game tickets…

Kentucky's penal code doesn't outlaw a card game among friends. KRS 528.010 defines a "player" as someone who gambles solely as a contestant or bettor without taking a cut, and it…

Kentucky legalized sports wagering in 2023, but only tracks licensed by the Kentucky Horse Racing and Gaming Corporation can operate it, in person or through a contracted platform. KRS…

Kentucky has no single HOA assessment law. Condominiums get an automatic lien under KRS 381.9193, and planned communities formed after June 29, 2023 get a continuing lien under KRS…

Kentucky's Planned Community Act requires every homeowners association declaration or bylaws to provide for an annual meeting, notice of any association meeting sent no less than 10…

Kentucky overrides HOA documents in only a narrow area. KRS 381.800 voids any governing-document provision that bans political yard signs, and that override applies to all planned…

Kentucky sets no maximum dollar amount for a homeowners association fine, but since the Planned Community Act took effect on June 29, 2023 a board must give the lot owner written…

Kentucky splits association liens three ways. A planned community governed by KRS 381.785 to 381.801 gets a continuing lien under KRS 381.799 once any assessment sits unpaid for 30…

Kentucky has no statute that authorises, defines or regulates a sobriety checkpoint. The only roadblock provision in the Kentucky Revised Statutes runs the opposite way: KRS 189.126…

Kentucky is a one-party-consent state, and the consent can be yours. KRS 526.010 defines eavesdropping as recording an oral or wire communication "of others" without the consent of at…

Kentucky has no stop-and-identify statute. No section of the Kentucky Revised Statutes makes it an offense to decline to give your name to a peace officer during a street stop, and…

The Kentucky General Assembly has never enacted a statute that tells a driver what consent to a roadside vehicle search means, who may give it, or whether an officer must say it can be…

Kentucky law restricts how local governments may zone agricultural land. Counties and cities cannot use zoning to unreasonably interfere with bona fide agricultural operations, and…

Kentucky's Right to Farm law protects established agricultural operations from nuisance suits and conflicting local ordinances. Farms operating for at least one year and following…

Kentucky political signs receive First Amendment protection that limits content-based local regulation. State law restricts placement on highway rights-of-way and within polling place…

Kentucky has no solar access law that overrides a homeowners association covenant. The Commonwealth's only statute on the subject, KRS 381.200(2), authorizes a voluntary solar easement…

Kentucky's net metering law guarantees rooftop solar owners a two-way meter and dollar-credit compensation for exported power. Eligible solar facilities are capped at 45 kilowatts, and…

Kentucky prohibits the sale of tobacco, vapor, and alternative nicotine products to anyone under 21. The law conforms to federal Tobacco 21 standards and applies to all retail outlets…

Kentucky has not enacted a statewide ban on flavored tobacco or vapor products. Sales remain lawful for buyers 21 and older, with limited authority for local boards of health to…

Kentucky limits every visible light you add to a vehicle by color and by whether it flashes. Under KRS 189.040(14), visible front lights may only be white or amber and visible rear…

Kentucky has never written a dash camera statute, so the rule that decides where you may put one is the windshield provision, KRS 189.110(2). It bars operating a motor vehicle on a…

Kentucky has neither authorized lane splitting nor written an express ban on it. KRS 189.285, the section that governs how motorcycles are operated and ridden, says nothing about lane…

Kentucky puts the rule in its registration statute rather than its equipment chapter. KRS 186.170(1)(c) requires that plates be kept legible at all times, that the rear plate be…

A radar detector is legal in a private car in Kentucky. The Kentucky Revised Statutes contain no prohibition on owning, mounting or using one, and the word detector does not appear…

Kentucky has no studded tire statute at all. The four tire provisions in KRS Chapter 189, the chapter titled Traffic Regulations and Vehicle Equipment, regulate wheel chains, iron and…

Kentucky draws its tint line at 35 percent light transmittance on the side wings and side windows forward of or beside the driver, and 18 percent on any window behind the driver, with…