Georgetown, KY Public Conduct: Loitering Rules (2026)

Both rules sit in Chapter 38, Traffic and Vehicles, Article V (Pedestrians). Section 38-81, Demonstrations on or near a sidewalk, applies to a person on any sidewalk or on any premises abutting a sidewalk. It lists the conduct: making a speech or harangue, demonstrating, selling or offering for sale goods, wares and merchandise, or displaying any sign, device, information or exhibition. The offense requires a result. The conduct must cause a gathering of persons on the sidewalk that interferes with pedestrian traffic. The section ends with a sentence of flexibility: the city can make exceptions for special events.

Section 38-82, Pedestrian assemblies, is wider in place and shorter in text. No person shall gather and remain in crowds or assemblies at or about any point or place, or move in crowds, in such numbers and in such manner as to interfere with vehicular or pedestrian traffic. It is not tied to sidewalks, and it protects vehicle traffic as well as walkers.

The word loitering does not appear in the Georgetown Code text read for this page, and neither section punishes standing or lingering by itself. The trigger in each is interference with traffic: pedestrian traffic on a sidewalk under § 38-81, and vehicular or pedestrian traffic under § 38-82. Neither section names an enforcing officer.

The penalty comes from § 38-192, Penalty, General. It makes it a misdemeanor for any person to commit any act forbidden by the chapter, and unless another penalty is expressly provided by federal law, state law or the chapter, every person convicted of violating any provision of the traffic regulations is subject to a fine of not less than $10.00 nor more than $100.00. Sections 38-81 and 38-82 print no penalty of their own.