Franklin County, KY Trash & Recycling: Bin Placement Rules (2026)

Section 50.05(A) of the Franklin County Code requires the occupant or owner of every dwelling unit, and of every institutional, commercial, industrial, agricultural or business establishment, to place all solid waste to be collected in proper solid waste containers. The same duty covers maintaining the containers and the area surrounding them in a clean, neat and sanitary condition at all times. Section 50.05(C) provides that containers may be provided by the county, in the sole discretion of the county. Section 50.03 defines CONTAINERS as county-provided wheeled containers specifically designed for curbside pick-up and mechanical dumping into the compatible collection vehicle, covering both landfill-bound waste and recyclables.

It adds that CONTAINERS may also include non-reusable plastic sacks or bags designed for refuse with sufficient wall strength to keep their integrity when lifted by the top or scavenged by animals. Section 50.08(B)(6) bars depositing solid waste in a container owned by someone else unless the owner gave written permission. The chapter applies in the unincorporated area only, per §§ 50.02 and 50.03, and Frankfort's residents follow Frankfort's code. The text does not print a distance from the curb, a screening requirement or set-out and pull-back times, so the enforceable standards are the proper-container rule, the clean-surroundings rule and the harborage rule in § 50.05(B). The Fiscal Court last amended the chapter by Ordinance 10-2023, passed 9-28-2023.