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What must a Kentucky landlord disclose to a tenant, and what must the lease say?

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In a Kentucky city or county that has adopted the uniform act — Lexington-Fayette and Louisville Metro are the two confirmed, and there is no official statewide list — the landlord must disclose in writing, at or before the tenancy starts, the name and address of the manager and of an owner or agent for service of process, and must present a priced listing of existing damage that both sides sign before the tenant hands over any deposit money.

Cited to KRS 371.010 (6)–(7) and 31 more cited sources · Verified September 13, 2026

Outside one, neither duty exists. Statewide, one hazard disclosure does bind every landlord: where law enforcement has posted a methamphetamine contamination notice and the property has not been decontaminated, the owner must disclose the contamination in writing to every prospective tenant, and failing to do so is a Class D felony. Kentucky requires no written lease, no copy of it, no tenant-rights document, no lease wording, no flood disclosure and no lead, mold, bed-bug, radon or asbestos disclosure. A four-item roster of prohibited lease clauses is merely unenforceable, but a clause penalizing a tenant for calling for emergency help costs actual damages, fees and up to two months' rent in punitive damages if the landlord knowingly enforces it, and no locality may add rules of its own.

Kentucky lease disclosures at a glance

Which law governs Kentucky runs two landlord-tenant regimes inside one chapter and the difference decides most answers on this page. Sections 383.010 to 383.302 are the general landlord-tenant, forcible-entry-and-detainer and domestic-violence provisions, and they bind everywhere in the state. Sections 383.505 to 383.715 are Kentucky's uniform residential landlord and tenant act, and they bind only where a city, county or urban-county government has adopted them — the General Assembly authorized localities to enact the act, but only in their entirety and without amendment, and forbade any other local ordinance on the subjects it embraces. The reason is historical: the state's highest court struck the 1974 version because it reached only two of the 120 counties, and the 1984 legislature answered by repealing and reenacting the whole act as a local option, which is why every section of it still prints that history. The owner-and-manager disclosure, the move-in damage listing and the roster of prohibited lease provisions all sit on the local-option side. Statewide, outside the act, the pieces that matter here are the statute of frauds, the ban on clauses penalizing a tenant for calling for emergency help, and the methamphetamine disclosure in the environmental protection chapter, whose contents a public health regulation fixes.
Who is covered The uniform act binds only in localities that have adopted it, and no official statewide list of those localities exists — the state's own research publications carry none, so the only proof of adoption is each locality's own code. Two adoptions were read in the localities' own codes: Lexington-Fayette Urban County, whose ordinance enacts the provisions of the uniform residential landlord and tenant act as set out in the Kentucky Revised Statutes, adopted in 1984; and Louisville and Jefferson County Metro, whose code chapter is titled as the uniform act and was adopted the same year. Secondary compilations name roughly seventeen further adopters, and none of those is published here because none was confirmed in the locality's own code. Everything else on this page is statewide: the statute of frauds, the emergency-assistance clause ban for leases created or renewed on or after June 29, 2017, the single-family-zone letting restriction in a county containing a consolidated local government for new leases initiated after June 27, 2025, and the methamphetamine disclosure. Inside an adopting locality the act excludes residence at an institution incidental to detention or to medical, geriatric, counseling, religious or educational service; occupancy under a contract of sale; occupancy by a member of a fraternal or social organization in a structure operated for it; transient occupancy in a hotel, motel or other lodgings; occupancy by an employee whose right to occupy is conditioned on employment; occupancy by an owner of a condominium unit or a holder of a proprietary lease in a cooperative; and occupancy of a dwelling on land used for livestock, poultry, tobacco or other crop production, including timber.
Written lease, copy and signature rules

No statute requires a residential lease to be in writing beyond the statute of frauds, so an oral tenancy is lawful. No statute requires the landlord to give the tenant a copy of the lease.

No Kentucky statute requires a residential rental agreement to be in writing, and none requires the landlord to give the tenant a copy of the signed lease. Under the uniform act, which binds only where a locality has adopted it, a rental agreement means all agreements written or oral, so an oral tenancy sits inside the act and the parties may include any terms the act does not prohibit; where the agreement fixes no term, the tenancy is week-to-week for a roomer who pays weekly rent and month-to-month in every other case. Outside an adopting locality the general chapter simply assumes oral tenancies exist and provides for recovering rent where there is no written contract. A lease longer than a year must be written and signed to be enforceable in an action. Kentucky prescribes no translation duty, no plain-language act, no type-size rule and no placement rule for a lease.

Statute of frauds: No action may be brought on a contract for the sale of real estate, or on any lease of it for longer than one year, unless the contract or some memorandum or note of it is in writing and signed by the party to be charged or that party's authorized agent; a second clause in the same section catches any agreement not to be performed within one year of the making (section 371.010, subsections (6) and (7)). The threshold is a lease longer than one year, and the effect is that an unwritten longer lease cannot be sued on, not that making one is unlawful.

Electronic leases and signatures: Kentucky's electronic-transactions act, sections 369.101 to 369.120, applies to electronic records and signatures relating to a transaction and excludes only wills, codicils and testamentary trusts, most of the commercial code, and instruments of title such as negotiable instruments and motor-vehicle titles. There is no residential-lease exclusion and no eviction-notice exclusion, so a Kentucky lease and the notices under it may be signed and delivered electronically as far as that act is concerned. The landlord-tenant chapter adds no electronic-delivery rule of its own.
Owner and agent identity

Yes — a statute requires the landlord to disclose the owner's or managing agent's identity to the tenant, in a separate writing.

In an adopting locality, the landlord or anyone authorized to enter a rental agreement for the landlord must disclose to the tenant in writing, at or before the tenancy commences, the name and address of the person authorized to manage the premises and the name and address of an owner, or a person authorized to act for the owner, for service of process and for receiving and receipting for notices and demands. No telephone number is required and there is no posting alternative; a separate writing satisfies the duty. The information must be kept current, and the section is enforceable against any successor landlord, owner or manager. The consequence is not money. A person who fails to comply becomes the agent of each person who is a landlord for service of process and for receiving notices and demands, and for performing the landlord's obligations under the act and under the rental agreement — including expending or making available for that purpose all rent collected from the premises. The act's definition of landlord drives the same point home: it includes a manager of the premises who fails to disclose as the section requires. Kentucky has no statewide landlord or rental-property registration, and outside an adopting locality none of this applies.

Threshold: The duty sits in the uniform act, so it binds only in a city, county or urban-county government that has adopted that act. In the rest of Kentucky there is no identity-disclosure duty at all. Inside an adopting locality the act's own exclusions apply and there is no unit count or owner-type threshold.
Required statements and lease text

No.

Kentucky prescribes no tenant-rights statement, no summary of the act, no handbook, no model lease, no agency form and no statutory lease wording, in adopting localities or anywhere else. Across the whole landlord-tenant chapter the word disclosure appears once, as the heading of the owner-and-manager identity section. Nothing requires a landlord to attach, hand over or recite anything, and no section prescribes what a lease must contain: the content rules Kentucky has are prohibitions rather than requirements. The one landlord-written document the state prescribes is hazard-specific — the methamphetamine disclosure statement whose contents an administrative rule fixes — and it is described in the hazard table rather than counted here. House rules come closest to a lease-content rule without being one: a rule or regulation binds the tenant only if, among other conditions, the tenant had notice of it when entering the agreement or when it was adopted, and a rule adopted later that works a substantial modification of the tenant's bargain is invalid unless the tenant consents to it in writing.
Move-in condition report

Yes, where a security deposit is taken.

Kentucky's move-in duty is not in a condition-report section; it is the opening of the deposit statute, and it is stricter than most. Before the prospective tenant tenders any consideration treated as a security deposit, the landlord must present a comprehensive listing of any then-existing damage to the unit that would be the basis for a charge against the deposit, together with the estimated dollar cost of repairing that damage — Kentucky is one of the few states that requires a priced listing rather than a checklist. The tenant may inspect the premises to check the listing's accuracy before taking occupancy. Both sign, and the signatures are conclusive evidence of the listing's accuracy, though not as to latent defects; a tenant who refuses to sign must state specifically in writing the items dissented from and sign that statement. No agency prescribes a form. A mirror listing is required when occupancy ends, and the tenant's later dispute is limited to items specifically dissented from at that stage. The consequence is drafted conjunctively and the statute's own words matter: no landlord is entitled to retain any portion of a security deposit if the deposit was not placed in a separate account as the first subsection requires and if the initial and final damage listings are not provided. On its face that pairs the two failures, so a claim that a missing listing alone bars withholding overstates the text. There is no money penalty and no separate private action for a listing failure, and none of this applies outside a locality that has adopted the uniform act.

When and who signs: Before the prospective tenant tenders any consideration treated as a security deposit — a payment-ordering rule rather than a day count. Both the landlord and the tenant sign the listing, and a tenant who refuses states in writing, item by item, which entries are disputed and signs that statement of dissent.

Deposit notice at signing: Deposits must be held in an account used only for that purpose, and prospective tenants must be informed of the location of that separate account and the account number (section 383.580, subsection 1). The deposit amounts, the end-of-tenancy listing and the return rules are on the deposits page.
Hazard disclosures

One in-force state hazard disclosure: methamphetamine (before signing and when the event the section names occurs). No state duty exists for lead, mold, bed bugs, radon, asbestos, or any other hazard.

Every state duty and every stated absence, hazard by hazard:

Lead (state add-on to the federal rule) — no state duty. Kentucky adds nothing to the federal lead-paint disclosure: no state form, registration, certificate or renewal re-disclosure binds a landlord. The state's lead law is a screening, inspection, certification and abatement regime whose notices run from the state to the owner, not from the landlord to the tenant. Where lead-based substances are found, or an occupant is confirmed to have an elevated blood lead level, the cabinet notifies the owner and occupant if children of seventy-two months or younger live there, informs local health officers, and tells the owner in writing that hazards accessible to such children must be removed, replaced or securely and permanently covered within sixty days in the manner it prescribes; if the owner does not comply, the cabinet posts the dwelling as unfit for children under that age. The lead rules license and accredit abatement workers and training programs and impose no tenant-facing duty.

Mold — no state duty. No Kentucky statute or rule requires a mold disclosure to a tenant, and none requires testing or remediation before renting. The state's only mold statute is a trade-practice standard: the department must set minimum standards for mold remediation companies operating in the Commonwealth, every such company must follow them, and customer complaints about compliance go to the Attorney General. Nothing in it binds a landlord or prescribes a booklet.

Bed bugs — no state duty. No Kentucky statute or rule mentions bed bugs. There is no disclosure before signing, no notice during a tenancy, no inspection record and no cost-allocation rule; whatever a Kentucky landlord and tenant do about an infestation comes from the lease and from the general repair duties, not from a disclosure statute.

Radon — no state duty. No Kentucky statute or rule requires a radon disclosure to a tenant. The state's radon rules were repealed and the program is now occupational licensing: a board of radon safety, a bar on conducting radon measurement, mitigation or laboratory analysis without certification, and registration of measurement contractors and laboratories. Nothing in it is conditioned on a lease, and Kentucky has no radon-awareness statute.

Methamphetamine — in force — a state duty, before signing and when the event the section names occurs, in a separate document (a statute and an administrative rule). This is Kentucky's one hazard disclosure, it binds statewide rather than only in adopting localities, and it carries the heaviest penalty attached to any disclosure in the state. An owner of contaminated property who leases, rents or sells property on which a methamphetamine contamination notice has been posted must disclose in writing to any potential lessee, tenant or buyer that the property is contaminated with methamphetamine and has not been decontaminated as the statute requires. The trigger is the posting, not the owner's knowledge, and the duty ends once the property has been decontaminated and released from the need for further action. The public health rule fixes the contents: an owner who chooses not to decontaminate must disclose in writing, to all prospective buyers, tenants and lessees, the physical address of the property, the location within the posted property that was used in the production of methamphetamine, and a copy of the posted notice of contamination. The owner signs and dates the disclosure statement and keeps a copy, with its attachments, for as long as the owner owns the property, and must hand over, on request, any documentation about the contamination supplied by law enforcement, the environmental cabinet, the public health department or the local health department. No agency publishes the disclosure statement itself: the owner writes it to the rule's content specification. If a posted property is sold or ownership otherwise transfers, the new owner takes on the whole disclosure duty, and where the posted property is a mobile home the owner carries the duty to a new address if the home is moved. The duty lifts when the local health department tells the owner in writing that the notice may be removed and that the disclosure requirements no longer apply. Threshold: Reaches inhabitable property that law enforcement has posted with the contamination notice and that has not been decontaminated and released. Inhabitable property means any building or structure and related curtilage, water, water system or sewer system used as a clandestine methamphetamine laboratory that is intended to be primarily occupied by people, expressly including a mobile home and an individual unit of a multifamily building that may be sold, leased or rented for any length of time; a hotel is excluded. In a multifamily building the notice is posted on each entrance door to the individual unit. In force since June 26, 2007. If the duty is not met: A person who leases, rents or sells a property determined to be contaminated to a lessee, renter or buyer without giving written notice that it is contaminated commits a Class D felony. Removing a posted notice contrary to the removal rules is a Class A misdemeanor. Failing to disclose as the rule requires carries the same felony liability. No private right of action is stated anywhere in the section, so the sanction is criminal, alongside the agency machinery.

Asbestos — no state duty. No Kentucky statute or rule requires an asbestos disclosure to a tenant. The word does not appear in the landlord-tenant, public health or environmental protection statutes that could carry one, and the state's asbestos rules are limited to accrediting asbestos professionals, rules for local education agencies, the adoption of the federal emission standard, and requirements for abatement entities.

Pesticide, ordnance, pool, utility and detector notices — no state duty. No Kentucky statute or rule requires a pesticide-application notice, a military ordnance or noise-zone notice, a pool-safety notice, a utility-hazard notice or a smoke-detector acknowledgment at signing. The word smoke appears nowhere in the landlord-tenant chapter, and the hazardous-materials rules cover liquefied-petroleum gas, self-service stations, anhydrous ammonia and underground petroleum storage tanks rather than anything a tenant is told.
Flood disclosure

No.

Kentucky has no flood disclosure of any kind — no zone question, no flooding history, no elevation test and no insurance advisory — and the word flood appears nowhere in the landlord-tenant chapter. The sales route does not supply one either. The seller's disclosure of conditions applies, in its own words, to sales and purchases involving single-family residential real estate dwellings if a person licensed under the real-estate chapter receives compensation, so it is both sale-only and conditioned on a licensee being paid; the form's subjects are the basement's condition and whether it leaks, the roof's condition and whether it leaks, the source and condition of the water supply, the source and condition of sewage service, the working condition of component systems, and other matters the commission thinks appropriate. It does not name flooding at all. The chapter titled flood control and water usage is about municipal flood-control systems and water use and says nothing about disclosure or tenants.
Disclosures about the property's situation Kentucky prescribes no location disclosure to a tenant: there is no sex-offender notice, no death-in-unit notice, no demolition-intent notice, no condominium-conversion notice, no foreclosure or pending-sale notice and no military noise or ordnance notice. Two provisions are sometimes mistaken for one. The methamphetamine contamination notice is posted on the property by law enforcement at the health department's request, not by the landlord; the landlord's own duty is the written disclosure described in the hazard table. And in a county containing a consolidated local government, for new leases initiated after June 27, 2025, an owner may not lease or allow occupancy of a single-family home, multifamily housing unit or accessory dwelling unit on a lot containing a single-family home in a traditional single-family home zone unless the owner primarily lives in one of them; a traditional single-family home zone means one that as of January 1, 2025 did not permit multifamily homes, and the restriction does not reach a lot with only one single-family home and no accessory dwelling unit (section 383.199). That is a restriction on letting, not a disclosure.
What need not be disclosed None — no statute says a fact about the property need not or may not be disclosed in a rental, or bars a claim over its non-disclosure.
Utility, fee and payment disclosures No statutory disclosure of this kind
Lease clauses that are void or prohibited

Yes — the statute lists the lease provisions that are void or prohibited.

Kentucky runs two prohibition regimes of very different reach. The uniform act's roster has four enumerated items and binds only in a locality that has adopted the act. It is drafted one way: it says what a rental agreement may not provide that the tenant does, and its fee and exculpation bans protect only against landlord-side clauses, so a clause making the landlord pay the tenant's fees is not prohibited. The sanction is bare unenforceability, with unconscionability as a judicial backstop. Alongside it sits a single-subject ban that needs no local adoption: no residential lease anywhere in Kentucky may authorize the landlord to terminate or to penalize a tenant for asking peace officers or others for help in an emergency, and that one carries damages, fees, costs and punitive damages capped at two months' rent where the landlord knowingly enforces it. Outside an adopting locality the roster does not exist, so the emergency-assistance ban is the only lease-content prohibition a tenant can rely on.

Two tiers, and they belong to different regimes. A provision on the uniform act's roster that is included in a rental agreement is simply unenforceable — no damages, no fee award, no cure window and no multiplier. The statewide emergency-assistance ban goes further, but only on enforcement and only with knowledge: a prohibited provision is unenforceable, and where a landlord enforces a lease containing provisions the landlord knows the section prohibits, the tenant may recover actual damages sustained, reasonable attorney's fees, all other costs of bringing the action, and punitive damages of not more than two months of periodic rent. That is the only money remedy attached to lease content anywhere in Kentucky law, and it applies in every county.

The listed provisions:

• A rental agreement may not provide that the tenant agrees to waive or forego rights or remedies under the uniform act (section 383.570, subsection (1)(a); adopting localities only).

• It may not provide that the tenant authorizes any person to confess judgment on a claim arising out of the rental agreement (section 383.570, subsection (1)(b)).

• It may not provide that the tenant agrees to pay the landlord's attorney's fees (section 383.570, subsection (1)(c)).

• It may not provide that the tenant agrees to the exculpation or limitation of any liability of the landlord arising under law, or agrees to indemnify the landlord for that liability or the costs connected with it (section 383.570, subsection (1)(d)).

• Statewide, and whether or not the locality has adopted the uniform act: a landlord may not include in a residential rental agreement or lease a provision authorizing the landlord to terminate the agreement or to impose a penalty on a tenant for requests the tenant makes for assistance from peace officers, or other assistance in response to emergencies (section 383.302, subsection (1); leases created or renewed on or after June 29, 2017).

• No rental agreement, assignment, conveyance, trust deed or security instrument may permit rent to be received free of the obligation to keep the premises fit and habitable (section 383.575).
Attorney-fee clauses

A lease clause making a party pay the landlord's attorney fees is void.

In a locality that has adopted the uniform act, a rental agreement may not provide that the tenant agrees to pay the landlord's attorney's fees, and such a provision is unenforceable. The ban runs one way only: a clause making the landlord pay the tenant's fees is not prohibited. Kentucky has no reciprocity statute converting a one-way clause into a mutual one, and no statutory prevailing-party rule to take its place, so outside the ban each side ordinarily bears its own fees and any recovery has to come from the contract. One statutory exception survives the ban: where a tenant's non-compliance with the rental agreement or with the tenant's own statutory duties is willful — meaning done with deliberate intention, not accidentally or inadvertently, and according to a purpose — the landlord may recover actual damages and reasonable attorney's fees. The Court of Appeals has read the prohibition as a strong sign of a public policy disfavoring a landlord's recovery of fees from a tenant and has said there is no room for trial-court discretion outside that willful-non-compliance exception, which must be pleaded. A tenant's own fee award exists in one place: the statewide emergency-assistance ban, which gives the tenant fees and costs where the landlord knowingly enforces a prohibited clause. Outside an adopting locality neither the ban nor the exception applies.
When, how, and what happens on a failure Kentucky has few duties and they do not share a shape. The identity disclosure is owed in writing at or before the tenancy commences, must be kept current, and binds any successor landlord, owner or manager; its consequence is agency by operation of law, including a duty to spend collected rent on the landlord's obligations, and there is no money penalty. The move-in damage listing is owed before any deposit money changes hands, must carry the estimated cost of repairing each item, and is signed by both sides, with a written itemized dissent if the tenant refuses; the only consequence is the deposit-retention bar, which the statute drafts alongside the separate-account failure. The deposit-account information is owed to prospective tenants and carries no stated consequence. The methamphetamine disclosure is owed in writing before every letting while the property stays posted and un-released, the owner signs and dates it and keeps it for the life of the ownership, further documents follow on request, and the duty passes to a new owner and travels with a relocated mobile home; the sanction is a Class D felony and no private action is stated. The roster of prohibited lease provisions is enforced by unenforceability alone, while the statewide emergency-assistance ban gives the tenant actual damages, fees, costs and punitive damages of up to two months' rent on knowing enforcement. House rules bind only where the tenant had notice at signing or on adoption, and a later rule that substantially changes the bargain needs the tenant's written consent. There is no annual notice, no renewal re-disclosure and no notice to the tenant on a sale. The chapter carries no electronic-delivery provision; notice generally means taking steps reasonably calculated to inform the other party in the ordinary course, whether or not that party actually learns of it, with the landlord reachable at the place of business or by certified mail and the tenant in hand, by registered or certified mail, or at the last known residence. And the largest caveat of all: every duty drawn from the uniform act exists only where the locality has adopted it.
Can cities add their own rules

Partly — state law preempts local rules on some subjects and leaves others to the locality or open.

Kentucky both authorizes one thing and forbids nearly everything else, which is why the answer is mixed. The authorization is all-or-nothing: the General Assembly allows cities, counties and urban-county governments to enact the provisions of the uniform residential landlord and tenant act, but only in their entirety and without amendment, and the same section says no other ordinance may be enacted by a city, county or urban-county government relating to the subjects that act embraces — which includes disclosure and lease content. Four further bars run alongside it. Since March 6, 2024, no city, county, charter county, urban-county, consolidated local or unified local government may adopt or enforce any ordinance relating to landlord or tenant laws that conflicts with state law. Since the same date, no local government may adopt or enforce an ordinance or regulation preventing an owner, lessee, sublessee, assignee, managing agent or other person with authority to let a housing accommodation from refusing to rent to a person whose lawful source of income to pay rent includes federal housing-assistance funding. Only the General Assembly may enact legislation controlling rents on private property, with carve-outs for publicly owned or assisted housing and federal grant programs, and that preemption belongs to the rent-increase page. And no local government may demand an emergency-response fee from an owner for another person's actions on the property. The practical effect on this page is that a Kentucky locality may take the uniform act whole or leave it, and may not write its own disclosure or lease-content ordinance either way. No Kentucky city carries a lease packet on this page.
How state law refers to the federal rules State law adds nothing to, and refers to nothing in, the federal rules, which are listed further down this page
Changes already signed into law No signed act is waiting beyond any not-yet-in-force duty already stated on this page
Leading court decisions

Miles v. Shauntee, 664 S.W.2d 512 (Supreme Court of Kentucky; 1983; residential setting; bears on the topic as a whole): The uniform residential landlord and tenant act as first enacted in 1974 was unconstitutional local and special legislation, because it applied by its terms to only two of the state's 120 counties and the acuteness of the problem in those two was no rational basis for leaving the other 118 out. The decision is why the whole act was repealed and reenacted in 1984 as a local option, and why every section of it still carries that history. The court also declined to recognize an implied warranty of habitability outside the act and held that a housing-code violation gives a tenant no implied cause of action and no consumer-protection claim.

O'Rourke v. Lexington Real Estate Co., LLC, 365 S.W.3d 584 (Kentucky Court of Appeals; 2011; residential setting; bears on attorney-fee clauses): On a written residential lease in a locality that has adopted the uniform act, the court held that the act precludes a rental agreement from requiring a tenant to pay the landlord's attorney's fees, and read that prohibition as a strong sign of a public policy disfavoring a landlord's recovery of fees incurred in an action against a tenant. It said there is no room for trial-court discretion in this area except through the statutory exception for a tenant's willful non-compliance, which must be pleaded, and reversed the fee award.

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Kentucky Lease Disclosure Laws & Required Lease Terms (verified September 13, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/lease-disclosures/kentucky/" — free to cite and quote with a link (how these records are verified). Everything above is cited in the citations section below.

Kentucky hazard disclosures at a glance

One row below is an in-force state duty to disclose, hand over, attach or post a hazard notice as part of renting; the federal lead-paint rule applies on top for housing built before 1978. Each row's full text, trigger, threshold and remedy are in the table above.

Hazard Status When Form Prescribed document
Lead (state add-on to the federal rule) None — — —
Mold None — — —
Bed bugs None — — —
Radon None — — —
Methamphetamine In force Before signing and when the event the section names occurs Separate document —
Asbestos None — — —
Pesticide, ordnance, pool, utility and detector notices None — — —

Federal rules that apply in every state

The federal layer for the lease-disclosures topic, carried once for the whole site. Every row names who it binds: most federal lease attachments bind only a landlord who takes a voucher or holds HUD-assisted or HUD-insured property, and the one rule that binds every landlord (the lead-paint disclosure rule) is a floor that state law may add to. No state record restates these rows; a state record says only where its own law references or extends them. Each row below says who it binds before it says what it requires. The full text of each row, with its citations, is on the 50-state page.

Notes and caveats

Common questions: Kentucky lease disclosures

Each answer is the verified value from the table above, restated as a direct answer. Free to quote with a link to this page.

Does Kentucky require a landlord to give the tenant a written statement of tenant rights?
No. Kentucky prescribes no tenant-rights statement, no summary of the act, no handbook, no model lease, no agency form and no statutory lease wording, in adopting localities or anywhere else. Across the whole landlord-tenant chapter the word disclosure appears once, as the heading of the owner-and-manager identity section.
Does a Kentucky landlord have to disclose the owner's name and address?
Yes — a statute requires the landlord to disclose the owner's or managing agent's identity to the tenant, in a separate writing. In an adopting locality, the landlord or anyone authorized to enter a rental agreement for the landlord must disclose to the tenant in writing, at or before the tenancy commences, the name and address of the person authorized to manage the premises and the name and address of an owner, or a person authorized to act for the owner, for service of process and for receiving and receipting for notices and demands.
Is a move-in inspection checklist required in Kentucky?
Yes, where a security deposit is taken. Kentucky's move-in duty is not in a condition-report section; it is the opening of the deposit statute, and it is stricter than most.
What hazards must a Kentucky landlord disclose to a tenant?
One in-force state hazard disclosure: methamphetamine (before signing and when the event the section names occurs). No state duty exists for lead, mold, bed bugs, radon, asbestos, or any other hazard.
Does Kentucky require flood disclosure to renters?
No. Kentucky has no flood disclosure of any kind — no zone question, no flooding history, no elevation test and no insurance advisory — and the word flood appears nowhere in the landlord-tenant chapter. The sales route does not supply one either.
Does Kentucky void or prohibit specific lease clauses?
Yes — the statute lists the lease provisions that are void or prohibited. Kentucky runs two prohibition regimes of very different reach.

Citations

How this record was verified: Direct reading of the Kentucky Revised Statutes on the Legislative Research Commission's own site, whose banner states that the statutes include enactments through the 2026 regular session and that the database was last updated on September 13, 2026, and whose individual sections each print their own effective-date and history lines. KRS chapter 383 was enumerated as a complete 96-entry catchline list and twenty of its sections were read in full, together with the statute of frauds, the electronic-transactions scope section, the methamphetamine contamination section and the penalties section that carries its felony, the lead cluster in the public health chapter, the seller's disclosure of conditions in the real-estate chapter, the mold-remediation standard in the consumer-protection chapter, the flood-control chapter's catchlines, the radon program's catchlines and three local-government sections. The administrative leg used the same host's regulations: 136 titles enumerated, chapter lists read for six titles, regulation lists read for six chapters, and the methamphetamine disclosure regulation and the lead-abatement permit regulation read in full, with each regulation's own history line taken as its currency because the rules carry no site-wide banner. The enactment record rests on the per-section table of statute sections affected by the 2026 regular session, 563 rows across 202 chapters, which shows no row for any chapter on this page, cross-checked against the 191-title list of bills that became law and the chapter-to-bill table, with the two housing-adjacent 2026 acts read and cleared; the same ledger was run for 2025 and 2024 and both hits were read from the enrolled bill files. The 2026 session adjourned on April 15, 2026 with no carryover, and the pending measures were typed from the session record's own landlord-and-tenant index heading with each bill's disposition read on its own page. Two decisions were read in full in the official reporter text — Miles v. Shauntee and O'Rourke v. Lexington Real Estate Co., LLC — and the later citing history of each was checked. Adoption of the uniform act was re-read today in the Lexington-Fayette Urban County code, whose own banner records codification through an ordinance adopted June 26, 2025; the Louisville Metro provision was read on September 3, 2026 and its publisher now refuses automated access. Verified September 13, 2026.

What was read to state each absence on this page: