Kentucky Statewide Rule
Kentucky Lease Termination Notice
Key Facts
- Month-to-month notice
- 30 days written
- Week-to-week notice
- 7 days written
- Post-lease holdover notice
- 10 days written
- Applies where
- URLTA-adopting cities/counties
- Statute
- KRS 383.695
Summary
In URLTA-adopting Kentucky jurisdictions, KRS 383.695 lets either party end a month-to-month tenancy with at least 30 days' written notice before a periodic rental date, a week-to-week tenancy with 7 days' notice, and a post-lease holdover tenancy with 10 days' notice. Outside URLTA areas, common-law notice rules apply.
383.695 Periodic tenancy - Holdover remedies. (1) The landlord or the tenant may terminate a week-to-week tenancy by a written notice given to the other at least seven (7) days before the termination date specified in the notice. (2) The landlord or the tenant may terminate 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. (3) The landlord or the tenant may terminate a tenancy begun upon the termination of a written lease by written notice given to the other at least ten (10) days before the termination date specified in the notice, except that if the tenant fails to pay rent within ten (10) days after the day it becomes due, the landlord may terminate the tenancy at any time without notice.
Full Breakdown
Kentucky's URLTA (KRS 383.500-.715) applies only in cities and counties that adopted it, such as Louisville and Lexington. In those areas, KRS 383.695(2) provides that a party may terminate 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," while subsection (1) requires 7 days' notice for week-to-week and subsection (3) requires 10 days' notice for a tenancy continuing after a written lease ends. If a tenant willfully holds over in bad faith, KRS 383.695(4) lets the landlord recover up to three months' periodic rent or threefold actual damages, whichever is greater, plus reasonable attorney's fees. Fixed-term leases end on their stated expiration date.
Violations & Penalties
No specific statutory penalty for proper termination. A willful, bad-faith holdover exposes the tenant to up to three months' periodic rent or threefold the landlord's actual damages, whichever is greater, plus reasonable attorney's fees (KRS 383.695(4)).
Frequently Asked Questions
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