Oldham County, KY Rental Inspections: Tenant Complaint Process (2026)

Section 150.020, in force since October 16, 1990 under Ord. KOC 90-920.180, adopts "provisions of the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act in their entirety and without amendment in order to codify the law respecting contracts between residential landlords and tenants." That is the whole substantive rule: the county did not rewrite or supplement the state Act with local definitions, fees, or a county-run complaint intake process. Section 150.020(B) then does one more thing that matters for renters anywhere in the county: it declares the adopted law applies "to all of the county" and bars any city inside Oldham County from enacting its own ordinance touching the subjects the Act covers, so a tenant in La Grange, Crestwood, Pewee Valley or Prospect is governed by the same landlord-tenant framework as someone in the unincorporated county rather than a city-specific version.

Because the ordinance is a straight adoption rather than a locally administered program, it does not establish an Oldham County office, hotline, or inspection-request procedure for tenant complaints the way the building or dilapidated-structures chapters do; a tenant pursuing a landlord dispute proceeds under the adopted state Act itself, through the courts, rather than through a county administrative process created by this section.