Kentucky has no rent control and no dedicated rent-increase notice statute. In cities and counties that adopted the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act (URLTA), a month-to-month rent change is made by terminating the tenancy under KRS 383.695 with at least 30 days' written notice. Outside URLTA areas, the lease and common law govern.
Kentucky's URLTA (KRS 383.500-.715) applies only in jurisdictions that formally adopted it, such as Louisville/Jefferson County and Lexington/Fayette County; elsewhere no statewide landlord-tenant act controls rent increases. There is no statutory cap on the amount of an increase. In URLTA areas, KRS 383.695(2) lets a landlord end a month-to-month tenancy "by a written notice given to the other at least thirty (30) days before the periodic rental date specified in the notice," so a landlord effectively raises rent by giving that 30-day notice and offering new terms. A fixed-term lease cannot be raised mid-term unless the lease allows it.
No specific statutory penalty. A mid-term increase on a fixed lease, or one imposed without the required 30-day month-to-month notice in a URLTA area, is unenforceable and the prior rent continues.
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