Nicholasville, KY

Nicholasville bans noise from any vehicle that unreasonably interferes with the enjoyment of life or any lawful business or activity, and separately bars repairing, rebuilding…

Nicholasville bars construction, drilling and demolition tools from running between 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. when the sound creates a noise disturbance across a dwelling unit boundary…

Section 12-10 sets no single quiet-hours clause for Nicholasville. Section 12-10(b) instead bars specific noisy activities from 10:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m., including running machinery…

Sec. 12-10(b)(11) prohibits keeping or harboring any animal in Nicholasville that repeatedly or frequently emits any sound, including barking, yelping, howling, meowing, or squawking…

Nicholasville restricts amplified sound in Section 12-10. Commercial loudspeakers and mobile sound vehicles are barred on a public right-of-way or public space, noncommercial ones are…

In unincorporated Jessamine County, Kentucky, § 92.36(E) bars repairing, rebuilding, modifying or testing an aircraft between 11:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. when the resulting noise…

Nicholasville prohibits the use or sale of fireworks except as Article V of Chapter 8 allows, and bars anyone from firing the aerial or audible consumer fireworks listed in KRS…

Nicholasville allows open burning only on a fire Class 1 or Class 2 day designated by the Kentucky Division of Forestry, and only with a free permit from the fire department. Fires are…

Nicholasville exempts cooking, recreational and ceremonial fires from its open burning rules when the fire sits in a container suitable for the purpose and under continuous…

Nicholasville requires approved single-station smoke alarms in existing Group R occupancies, including existing dwelling units, congregate residences, and hotel and lodging house…

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…

Nicholasville bars any yard or pen for livestock, chickens and other fowl kept in a way that becomes offensive to a neighbor or annoying to the public, and declares it a nuisance…

Nicholasville regulates dogs by conduct and court finding, not by breed. Section 5-30 defines a dangerous dog as one declared vicious by a court, one that attacks a person without…

Nicholasville allows beekeeping only on single-family lots and Jessamine County Schools and city owned properties. Hives must sit at least 20 feet from every property line, water must…

In Nicholasville, a dog kept in the city must stay within the confines of its owner's residence property unless the owner controls it with a leash or other similar device at all times…

Nicholasville regulates cats through Sec. 5-6, which makes it unlawful to house and keep under control any dog or cat that causes a general inconvenience and annoyance to persons in…

In Jessamine County, Kentucky, every animal released from the county animal shelter, whether by return to owner or by adoption, must be implanted with a microchip before release. Dogs…

In Jessamine County, Kentucky, the spay/neuter mandate attaches to shelter adoptions: all canines and felines adopted from the animal shelter shall be surgically altered to prevent…

Jessamine County, Kentucky makes it unlawful to sell, own, harbor or keep as a pet a wild or exotic animal not indigenous to the United States, unless state and federal agencies have…

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…

Sec. 11-2(b) makes it unlawful in Nicholasville for the owner of any building or lot to let weeds, grass or plants grow taller than eight (8) inches anywhere on the lot, including the…

Nicholasville has no standing watering-day schedule in its water shortage division. Restrictions switch on when the Water Management Task Force declares a shortage by resolution. Once…

Sec. 11-2(c) makes it unlawful in Nicholasville for the owner of any building or lot to let any tree, bush, hedge or other vegetation grow so that it interferes with normal sidewalk…

Kentucky imposes no statewide private tree removal permit requirement, with the Right-to-Farm Act protecting timber operations from local nuisance restrictions.

Section 22-34 sets Nicholasville's parking fines: $25.00 for parking within five (5) feet of a fire hydrant, and a minimum $25.00 for yellow lines, no parking zones, fire lanes, double…

Section 22-31 makes it unlawful to park a two (2)-ton or heavier truck, a boat, trailer, recreation vehicle or camper on the streets of Nicholasville for an overnight period or for a…

Section 22-15 bars commercial vehicles from residential streets in Nicholasville unless the vehicle has a specific destination that can only be accessed via a residential street. Fines…

Nicholasville bars nonoperating or unlicensed vehicles from sitting on any property longer than seventy-two (72) hours under § 11-3(c), and presumes a vehicle left on a public road for…

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…

Nicholasville's transient room tax of three percent (3%) is figured on "rent," defined as the total amount charged for renting accommodations, whether charged by the provider or by a…

In unincorporated Jessamine County, Kentucky, the subdivision regulations bar fences, walls, hedges and other landscaping from obstructing visibility for a height of 10 feet above the…

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…

Nicholasville bars anyone under 18 from being in a public place, street or motor vehicle in the city during set overnight hours. From September 1 to May 31 the Sunday to Thursday night…

In Nicholasville it is unlawful to be on park property without permission after the park has closed. Open hours are those posted at each park, and the director of the parks department…

Nicholasville bars loading, unloading, opening, closing or handling boxes, crates, containers, building materials, sod and garbage cans between 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. when it causes…

Nicholasville treats bass as part of the sound itself: under § 12-10(b)(12), a vehicle stereo on public streets, rights-of-way or city-operated public property is a violation when it…

Nicholasville prohibits maintaining machinery or equipment whose operation involves rotating or reciprocating parts in a way that creates a noise disturbance across a dwelling unit…

In unincorporated Jessamine County, Kentucky, § 92.36(I)(2) makes sounding any motor vehicle burglar alarm, or any exterior burglar or fire alarm, a violation unless the alarm…

Nicholasville bars itinerant merchants, including food trucks, from locating within fifteen feet of a driveway or main building entrance, within five hundred feet of a special event…

In Nicholasville, a food truck is an itinerant merchant and needs both an occupational license and a Planning Commission permit. The annual permit fee is $160.00, the application must…

Nicholasville has no standalone sidewalk vending section. Sidewalk and right-of-way limits sit in the itinerant merchant article: no chairs or tables on the public right-of-way, no…

Sec. 11-4(a)(3) lists the conditions Nicholasville declares public nuisances on any lot or parcel: rubbish outside a building, rubbish left on a public sidewalk, graffiti, unusable…

In Nicholasville, a person cited by a code enforcement officer has seven days from the date of issuance to pay the civil fine or request a hearing in writing. Missing that deadline…

In unincorporated Jessamine County, Kentucky, a report about an unfit building needs a formal trigger. Unless the County Officer already knows the condition firsthand, an investigation…

In Nicholasville, roll carts and other trash receptacles go to the curb no sooner than 7:00 p.m. the evening before collection day and no later than 7:00 a.m. on collection day. They…

In Nicholasville, commercial solid waste must be kept in city-approved containers that are waterproof, leakproof and covered except when loading or emptying. Commercial containers are…

Nicholasville defines bulky rubbish as solid waste too large or too heavy for collectors to load safely, exempts it from the weekly residential collection requirement, and requires…

Sec. 11-1 makes it unlawful in Nicholasville to cast, throw, sweep, sift or deposit ashes, rubbish, garbage, refuse or waste of any kind, liquid or solid, in or upon any public way or…

In Nicholasville, the owner of every residential property inside the city limits is responsible for garbage service at that property, and the city provides collection under Chapter 18…

In Nicholasville, tree limbs, yard wastes and residential containers go to the curb or roadside for collection, but never before the regularly scheduled collection day. Limbs under…

Nicholasville defines yard wastes as grass clippings, leaves and tree trimmings. They must be stored in containers that prevent dispersal onto adjacent premises or public…

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 Nicholasville, the Administrative Official designated by the Planning Commission orders owners to demolish or repair structures that are dangerous, unsafe, unsanitary or unfit for…

In Nicholasville, it is unlawful for anyone owning or occupying property to allow snow or ice to remain on their sidewalk for longer than twenty-four hours from the time the snow falls…

In Nicholasville, Sec. 11-2(a) declares jimson, burdock, ragweed, thistle, cocklebur, poison ivy, poison oak and weeds of a like kind a nuisance on any lot or tract of land, and makes…

Sec. 11-6 bans skateboards and roller skates on the sidewalks and streets of downtown Nicholasville, inside the Edgewood, Wal-Mart and Winn Dixie shopping malls, and in Maple Grove…

Nicholasville restricts pedestrians on its arterial roadways: no one crosses except in a crosswalk, and where there is none only at an intersection with a traffic control signal or…

Sec. 3-93 of the Nicholasville code bars package liquor store operators and owners of vacant property from knowingly allowing habitual congregating of persons on the unenclosed portion…

In Nicholasville, an adult who controls a residence or premises cannot allow a social host party, gathering, or event to take place or continue there if a minor obtains, possesses, or…

Nicholasville prohibits possessing, selling, delivering or consuming alcoholic beverages at any time on City of Nicholasville property, and Section 12-9 adds a permit rule for…

Nicholasville makes it unlawful to camp overnight in a park without the written permission of the parks director or the Nicholasville-Jessamine County parks board. Authorized camping…

Sec. 12-1.1 bars anyone in Nicholasville, alone or in a group, from standing, sitting or remaining on or in any public right-of-way, street, sidewalk or highway to solicit…

In Nicholasville, new construction or substantial improvement of a residential structure in a special flood hazard area with base flood elevation data must have its lowest floor…

Nicholasville bars anyone from discharging anything other than storm water into its storm water system or watercourses if it carries pollutants. Listed exemptions include lawn watering…

Nicholasville requires a development permit before any development begins in a special flood hazard area, administered by the Floodplain Administrator, who is the Mayor or designee…

In Nicholasville, land stripped of its natural vegetative cover by development must be revegetated within ten days of substantial completion of the clearing and construction. Reseeding…

Nicholasville regulates door to door sellers as transient merchants. The seller must have filed a completed transient merchant application with the division of revenue at least ten…

Nicholasville bars door to door sales before 9:00 a.m., after 8:00 p.m., on Sundays and on state or national holidays. Transient merchants cannot approach any home or business…

A Nicholasville parade is a special event consisting of a moving procession of persons, animals or vehicles on any street, sidewalk, park or other public place in the city, and no one…

In Nicholasville, a street closure is the temporary barricading of a side street or alleyway in conjunction with an event, and it requires a special event permit from the Director of…

Under the Jessamine County, Kentucky, Fiscal Court's alcoholic beverage chapter, a licensed restaurant in the Downtown Business District can ask the ABC Administrator for a seasonal…

In Nicholasville, owners of lots fronting streets or alleys must build and repair the sidewalks, curbs and gutters in front of their lots as the city commission directs. An owner who…

In Nicholasville, it is unlawful to erect or keep a wall, fence, retaining wall or other obstruction on a public street, highway, alley or public way that interferes with pedestrians…

Nicholasville bars anyone from placing, or letting accumulate, items such as furniture, signs, fences, rubbish or unlicensed vehicles on a street, alley, sidewalk, pathway, gutter or…

In Nicholasville, the chief of police issues yard sale permits to residents for a $5.00 fee. No person can be issued more than two permits in a calendar year, no site can receive a…

Nicholasville regulates secondhand purchases of gold, silver, platinum, copper and aluminum through Chapter 16. Dealers must keep a purchase record on police department forms, send a…

Nicholasville requires wrecker services on its police tow list to provide twenty-four (24) hour service, respond to emergency calls within fifteen (15) minutes or less, and charge a…

Anyone operating an adult entertainment establishment in Nicholasville pays an annual license tax of $10,000 in place of the regular occupational license fee, and the license cannot be…

In unincorporated Jessamine County, Kentucky, § 92.36(E)(1) and (J) limit night-time repairing, rebuilding, modifying or testing of cars, motorcycles, dirt bikes and 4-wheelers…

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 Nicholasville, landmarks and landmark sites are designated by the city commission on the recommendation of the seven-member Historic Preservation Commission. Once property is…

Nicholasville taxes every person or business entity engaged in business for profit: one and one-half percent of wages and compensation earned in the city, and one percent of net…

In Nicholasville, no sign can be placed in a public right-of-way or attached to public property, a street light or a utility pole, unless it is a governmental or legally required sign…

In unincorporated Jessamine County, Kentucky, the Fiscal Court bars electioneering, including displaying signs, within 300 feet of any building containing a polling place on election…

Nicholasville allows medical cannabis businesses rather than prohibiting them. Section 13-2 says all medical cannabis businesses are allowed to operate within the city limits in areas…

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…

Nicholasville's Property Maintenance Regulations set minimum standards for light, ventilation, space, heating, sanitation, protection from the elements and fire safety in every…

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…

In Nicholasville, building permit applications go to the planning and zoning enforcement officer and must be accompanied by the fee the city commission sets and keeps on file in the…

Nicholasville's property maintenance code requires elevators, dumbwaiters and escalators to be maintained to carry all imposed loads, operate properly and stay free of physical and…

Nicholasville requires all electrical wiring, appliances and devices to follow the National Electrical Code edition most recently adopted by Kentucky. Whoever installs or repairs…

Nicholasville adopts the Kentucky Building Code in full as a city ordinance, names the planning commission as the local enforcement agency, and extends the code to every single-family…

Nicholasville adopts the plumbing code promulgated by the state department of housing, building and construction as part of its own code, with a copy on file with the city clerk…

Nicholasville requires every structure to be kept free from rodent and insect infestation and every yard to be free from rodent harborage. Infested structures must be promptly…

Nicholasville imposes a transient room tax of three percent (3%) on the rent for every occupancy of a suite, room, cabin, lodging, campsite or other accommodation furnished to…

In Nicholasville, structures and premises must be inspected by the Administrative Official on receiving complaints from tenants, neighbors or other concerned parties. After the…

In unincorporated Jessamine County, Kentucky, § 92.20 of the Noise Control Ordinance exempts noise from farm livestock, farm machinery and other activities relating to an agricultural…

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…

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

Recreational drone operation in Kentucky is governed primarily by FAA rules under 14 CFR Part 107 and the Recreational UAS Safety Test, with state criminal statutes addressing…

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…

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 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 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…