Georgetown, KY Parking Rules: Driveway Rules (2026)

Georgetown's driveway rules cover vehicles leaving a driveway, vehicles parked beside one, and vehicles in alleys.

Leaving a driveway: § 38-70 requires the driver of a vehicle emerging from an alley, driveway or building to stop immediately prior to driving onto a sidewalk, or onto the sidewalk area extending across any alleyway, and to yield the right-of-way to any pedestrian as necessary to avoid a collision. On entering the roadway the driver yields to all vehicles approaching on the roadway.

Parking beside a driveway: § 38-109(a)(1) prohibits stopping, standing or parking within two feet of a public or private driveway. Subsection (a) applies in addition to KRS 189.450(5) and excuses a driver only when stopping is necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the law or the directions of a police officer or traffic-control device. Subsection (b) adds that no person shall move a vehicle not owned by that person into a prohibited area.

Alleys: § 38-112 provides that no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle within an alley in such a position as to block the driveway entrance to any abutting property, and no one parks in an alley or on a one-way street so as to leave less than ten feet of roadway width for free movement of traffic.

On the property side, § 38-116(a) makes it unlawful to park a vehicle, boat, camper or trailer within the front yard of any residential structure except upon a residential driveway or parking lot, and it extends the duty to anyone owning, possessing, managing or controlling the property. That section is enforced as a Class 1 civil offense under chapter 2, article VI. The Chapter 38 sections read print no paving, gravel or other surface requirement for a residential driveway.

Section 38-109(c) authorizes any police enforcement officer or citation officer to issue citations.