Lexington, KY Public Conduct: Loud Party Ordinance (2026)

Sec. 14-96, the 'Lexington Area Party Plan,' targets repeat problem addresses rather than any single loud gathering. A 'disturbance problem' is a dwelling that has generated at least two enforcement actions, citations issued or arrests made after police respond to a disturbance complaint and substantiate unlawful activity such as disorderly conduct, underage alcohol possession, or drug possession, within a one-year period. If all citations or arrests from an enforcement action are successfully appealed, that action can't count toward the two-strike threshold. Once the division of police determines an address meets that bar, it must immediately certify the property as a 'no party property,' a designation that runs for one year from the initial certification and automatically extends another year if a further disturbance complaint leads to a new enforcement action during that window.

Police must notify both the occupant and, if the home isn't owner-occupied, the property owner by personal service or certified mail, and must provide a sticker to post inside the home identifying it as certified property along with a contact number. An owner or occupant can petition the commissioner of public safety at any time to lift the certification by showing the underlying problem has been fixed and is unlikely to recur. Any occupant of a certified property who allows unlawful activity that triggers another enforcement action is guilty of violating the section, the certification itself creates the additional offense, on top of whatever underlying citation was issued for the party.