Lexington-Fayette has not adopted a Los Angeles Municipal Code 41.18-style sit-and-sleep ban; LFUCG instead enforces general loitering, trespass, and obstructing-the-sidewalk rules in Chapter 27 alongside outreach from Catholic Action Center.
Where Los Angeles uses LAMC 41.18 to ban sitting, sleeping, or storing property near schools and parks, Lexington has no equivalent map-based prohibition. Council members have weighed similar measures, but the city's Office of Homelessness Prevention and Intervention prefers a housing-first model coordinated with Catholic Action Center, New Beginnings Bluegrass, and the Lexington Police Department's Crisis Intervention Team. Officers can still enforce KRS-level trespass and LFUCG sidewalk-obstruction rules, but there is no buffer-zone misdemeanor unique to homelessness. Imagine Lexington 2024 calls for permanent supportive housing rather than criminalization.
General sidewalk obstruction or trespass under Ch. 27 can produce citations of $25 to $250, but there is no LAMC 41.18-style zone-specific misdemeanor or jail enhancement attached to homeless encampments in Lexington.
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