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Kentucky Mobile Home Park Laws

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Kentucky has no manufactured home community tenancy act, and which rules reach a lot tenancy depends on where the community sits: the Kentucky Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, KRS 383.500 to 383.715, is in force only in the cities, counties and urban-county governments that have adopted it in its entirety by ordinance, and everywhere else the general landlord and tenant sections of KRS Chapter 383 and the common law govern.

Cited to KRS 383.500 and 7 more sources · Verified August 19, 2026

Where the act has been adopted, either side may end a month-to-month lot tenancy without a reason on 30 days' written notice, nonpayment takes a written notice with 7 days to pay, and a lease or rules breach takes a notice setting termination at least 14 days out; where it has not, one month's written notice ends a tenancy at will and the lease supplies the rest. No Kentucky statute caps lot rent, requires notice before a rent increase, requires notice before a community is sold or closed, funds relocation, gives residents a right to buy, or protects the right to sell the home in place, and KRS 65.875 reserves rent control to the General Assembly, so no city or county may cap lot rents either. The Cabinet for Health and Family Services permits and inspects communities for construction and sanitation under KRS 219.310 to 219.410; no state agency runs a tenancy program.

Governing actKentucky Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act (in force only where a local government has adopted it) — KRS 383.500–383.715
General law that also appliesKentucky general landlord and tenant law, KRS 383.010–383.302 (including the forcible entry and detainer sections, KRS 383.200–383.285), with the common law
Federal lender protections already required by state law0 of 8 (see the table)

Each row below is a state rule (with its citation) or an honest "no state rule" with what governs instead — lease terms and the general landlord-tenant law still apply where the park act is silent. This page covers a resident who owns the home and rents the lot; a home rented from the park is an ordinary Kentucky tenancy.

On this page: Scope · Lot rent, fees and utilities · Lease, rules and disclosure · Termination and eviction · Closure and change of use · Sale of the park · The resident's home · Federal lender protections · Common questions · Citations

A. Scope — who and what the act covers

Rule Kentucky law Source
State agency with a role in park tenancies No state rule No Kentucky agency administers lot-tenancy rules for manufactured home communities. The Cabinet for Health and Family Services, working through local health departments, permits and inspects manufactured and mobile home communities for construction, layout and sanitation, and may deny, suspend or revoke a permit, but the permit program says nothing about rent, notice or eviction. The Department of Housing, Buildings, and Construction sets manufactured home construction and installation standards. Tenancy rights, where they exist, are enforced by the resident or the community owner in District Court rather than by an agency. KRS 219.370; KRS 219.380; KRS 227.550 (10); 902 KAR 15:010; KRS 383.520 (2)
Resident may sue under the act Yes A resident may sue in District Court on any right the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act gives, in the cities and counties that have adopted it. The act says every right or obligation it declares is enforceable by action unless the provision itself says otherwise, and the District Courts have jurisdiction over any claim arising from a transaction the act covers. Outside adopting jurisdictions there is no statutory cause of action for a lot tenant, and a claim rests on the lease and on general Kentucky law, including the right to recover rent by action under KRS 383.010. Applies only in part of the state: only in jurisdictions that have adopted KRS 383.500 et seq. KRS 383.520 (2); KRS 383.540 (1); KRS 383.010 (1)
Minimum park size for the act to apply (lots) No state rule No Kentucky statute sets a minimum community size for lot-tenancy rules, because no Kentucky statute sets lot-tenancy rules for manufactured home communities. The only size line in Kentucky law is in the health permit act, which defines a manufactured or mobile home community as land developed to lease two or more residential spaces for manufactured or mobile home dwellings, with common facilities and utilities on the premises. That two-space line decides who needs a permit from the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, not who has tenancy rights. KRS 219.320 (6); KRS 219.330; KRS 383.535
Other size thresholds that switch rules on No state rule No size threshold switches any lot-tenancy rule on or off in Kentucky. The Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act applies to a rental agreement without regard to how many units or lots a property has, and its exclusions section lists arrangements rather than sizes. Community size affects only the permit fee schedule the Cabinet for Health and Family Services sets by regulation. KRS 383.535; KRS 219.340 (1); 902 KAR 15:010
Park-owned rental homes Ordinary landlord-tenant law applies A home the community owns and rents out is governed by ordinary residential landlord-tenant law, not by any manufactured-housing statute. In a city or county that has adopted the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, that home is a dwelling unit under the act and the whole act applies to it. Everywhere else the lease, the general landlord and tenant sections of KRS Chapter 383 and the common law govern it. Kentucky draws no line at all between a community-owned home and a resident-owned home on a rented lot, because it has no manufactured-housing tenancy law in which to draw one. KRS 383.545 (3); KRS 383.500; KRS 383.195
RVs and park-model homes No state rule No Kentucky tenancy statute says whether a recreational vehicle or park-model space is treated like a manufactured home lot. The health permit act groups recreational vehicle communities together with manufactured and mobile home communities and lets the Cabinet for Health and Family Services set separate standards for each, but that act governs sanitation and construction rather than tenancy. The Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act neither names nor excludes recreational vehicle occupancy; its exclusions reach transient hotel, motel and taxed lodging stays. KRS 219.320 (7); KRS 219.370; KRS 383.535 (4)
Local rent regulation of park lots Preempted — local governments may not regulate lot rents A Kentucky city or county may not cap lot rents. State law says that only the General Assembly may enact legislation controlling rents on private property, to keep the rule uniform and statewide; the section preserves only a local government's control of property it holds an interest in through a housing authority or similar agency and its federally funded programs. Two further limits point the same way: a local government that adopts the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act must adopt it in its entirety and without amendment and may enact no other ordinance on the subjects the act embraces, and no local government may adopt or enforce a landlord or tenant ordinance that conflicts with state law. KRS 65.875; KRS 383.500; KRS 383.198

B. Lot rent, fees and utilities

Rule Kentucky law Source
Notice before a lot-rent increase No state rule Kentucky requires no advance notice of a lot-rent increase. Where the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act has been adopted, rent is whatever the rental agreement sets, so a community that wants a higher rent from a month-to-month resident has to end the existing tenancy on 30 days' written notice and offer new terms; outside those jurisdictions the equivalent step is one month's written notice to a tenant at will. Neither is a rent-increase notice, and neither gives the resident a right to stay on at the old rent. KRS 383.565 (1) and (2); KRS 383.695 (2); KRS 383.195
How often rent may be raised No state rule Kentucky does not limit how often lot rent may be raised. The Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act lets the parties agree the rent and the term and says nothing about the timing or the number of increases, and no other state statute addresses the question. KRS 383.565 (1); KRS 65.875
Statewide limit on lot-rent increases No state rule Kentucky sets no ceiling on lot-rent increases, and no city or county may set one. Rent control on private property is reserved to the General Assembly, which has enacted no limit; under the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act the rent is simply a term the parties agree. KRS 65.875; KRS 383.565 (1)
How a resident can challenge an increase No state rule Kentucky gives a resident no way to challenge the amount of a lot-rent increase. There is no mediation step, no petition, no reasonableness test and no agency review. The one related protection, in the cities and counties that have adopted the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, is that a landlord may not raise rent in retaliation after the resident complains to a code enforcement agency, complains to the landlord about the landlord's maintenance duties, or organizes or joins a tenants' organization; a complaint made within the year before the increase raises a presumption of retaliation, which does not arise if the complaint came after notice of the proposed increase. KRS 383.705 (1) and (2); KRS 65.875
Entrance fee prohibited No state rule No Kentucky statute prohibits an entrance or move-in fee at a manufactured home community. The Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act treats every payment to the landlord other than a security deposit as rent and leaves rent and the other terms to the parties' agreement, and nothing in the general landlord and tenant sections addresses the question. KRS 383.545 (10); KRS 383.565 (1)
Exit or removal fee prohibited No state rule No Kentucky statute prohibits an exit, removal or transfer fee when a resident leaves or moves the home out. The point is addressed neither in the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act nor in the general landlord and tenant sections, so the lease and the community rules control. KRS 383.545 (10); KRS 383.565 (1)
Undisclosed fees uncollectible No state rule Kentucky has no rule making an undisclosed fee uncollectible. The nearest protection, where the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act has been adopted, is that a charge has to come from the rental agreement or from a valid community rule, and a rule adopted after the resident signs that works a substantial modification of the bargain is invalid unless the resident consents in writing. That constrains new charges but does not itself bar collecting a fee that was never disclosed. KRS 383.610 (2); KRS 383.545 (11); KRS 383.565 (1)
Utility billing rules No state rule No Kentucky statute regulates how a manufactured home community bills residents for utilities. Where the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act has been adopted the landlord must keep the electrical, plumbing, sanitary, heating and other facilities it supplies in good and safe working order, and must supply running water and reasonable amounts of hot water at all times and reasonable heat between October 1 and May 1, except where heat or hot water is generated by an installation within the resident's exclusive control on a direct public utility connection, which is the usual position for a resident-owned home. A willful failure to supply an essential service lets the resident buy the service and deduct the actual and reasonable cost from rent, claim the loss in rental value, or take substitute housing rent-free, and an unlawful interruption of service is worth up to three months' rent plus a reasonable attorney's fee. KRS 383.595 (1)(d) and (1)(e); KRS 383.640 (1); KRS 383.655
Submetering required or regulated No state rule Kentucky does not address submetered or individually metered utility billing at a manufactured home community. No statute requires submeters, sets what a community may charge for a submetered service, or limits an administrative markup. The Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act mentions separate metering only to relieve the landlord of the duty to supply heat and hot water where the resident controls the installation on a direct public utility connection. KRS 383.595 (1)(e)
Lot security deposit rules A deposit must be held in a separate, disclosed bank account, and a signed damage list must be made at move-in and again at move-out. Where the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act has been adopted, a community taking a deposit must hold it in an account used only for deposits and tell the resident that account's location and number. Before the resident pays, the community must hand over a list of existing damage with the estimated repair cost, which the resident may check against the property and which both sign; the same listing is made again when the tenancy ends. A landlord who fails either the separate account or the two damage lists may keep none of the deposit. If the resident leaves owing the last month's rent and does not ask for the deposit back, the landlord may apply it to the debt after 30 days; if a refund is due and the resident does not answer a notice sent to the last known address within 60 days, the landlord may keep it. Kentucky sets no cap on the size of a deposit and no interest requirement, and outside adopting jurisdictions no statute governs a lot deposit at all. Applies only in part of the state: only in jurisdictions that have adopted KRS 383.500 et seq. KRS 383.580 (1) to (4); KRS 383.580 (6) and (7)

C. Lease, rules and disclosure

Rule Kentucky law Source
Written lease Not required Kentucky does not require a written lot lease. Under the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act a rental agreement includes an oral agreement together with the valid community rules, and where the agreement fixes no definite term the tenancy is month-to-month. Outside adopting jurisdictions an oral letting is equally effective and creates a tenancy at will or a periodic tenancy. KRS 383.545 (11); KRS 383.565 (3); KRS 383.195
Minimum lease term that must be offered No state rule Kentucky does not require a community to offer a lease of any minimum length. The Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act lets the parties choose the term and makes the tenancy month-to-month by default when they do not, and no statute obliges a community to offer a year or to renew. KRS 383.565 (1) and (3)
Notice to end a tenancy without cause 30 days A month-to-month lot tenancy can be ended without a reason on 30 days' written notice by either side, in the cities and counties that have adopted the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act. The notice must be given at least 30 days before the periodic rental date it names. The act sets 7 days for a week-to-week tenancy and 10 days where the tenancy began when a written lease ended. Outside adopting jurisdictions a landlord ends a tenancy at will or by sufferance on one month's written notice requiring the tenant to remove, and separate holdover rules apply when a fixed term expires. Applies only in part of the state: only in jurisdictions that have adopted KRS 383.500 et seq. KRS 383.695 (2); KRS 383.695 (1) and (3); KRS 383.195; KRS 383.160
Notice before park rules change No state rule Kentucky sets no notice period before community rules change. Where the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act has been adopted, a rule is enforceable only if it serves the convenience, safety or welfare of residents, preserves the property from abusive use or distributes services and facilities fairly, is reasonably related to that purpose, applies to all residents in a fair manner, is explicit enough to tell the resident what to do, is not a way around the landlord's own duties, and the resident had notice of it when signing or when it was adopted. A rule adopted later that works a substantial modification of the bargain is invalid unless the resident consents in writing. Applies only in part of the state: only in jurisdictions that have adopted KRS 383.500 et seq. KRS 383.610 (1); KRS 383.610 (2)
Disclosure document Written rules and terms must be given A community must give the resident, in writing, the name and address of the manager and of the owner or the owner's agent for notices and service, at or before the tenancy starts, in the cities and counties that have adopted the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act. That information has to be kept current and binds a later owner or manager, and whoever fails to give it becomes the landlord's agent for service and for performing the landlord's duties. The resident must also have notice of the community rules at the time of signing for those rules to be enforceable. Kentucky prescribes no disclosure form and requires no statement of rent history, utility charges or closure plans, and outside adopting jurisdictions no disclosure is required at all. Applies only in part of the state: only in jurisdictions that have adopted KRS 383.500 et seq. KRS 383.585 (1); KRS 383.585 (2) and (3); KRS 383.610 (1)(f)
Residents' right to meet and organize Yes A community may not retaliate against a resident for organizing or joining a tenants' organization, in the cities and counties that have adopted the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act. Retaliation there means raising rent, cutting services, or bringing or threatening an action for possession, and a complaint made within the year before raises a presumption that the landlord acted in retaliation. Kentucky goes no further: no statute gives residents a right to hold meetings in community facilities, to invite outside speakers, or to canvass door to door. Applies only in part of the state: only in jurisdictions that have adopted KRS 383.500 et seq. KRS 383.705 (1)(c); KRS 383.705 (2)
Owner entry onto the lot or into the home At least two days' notice before entry, at reasonable times, with no notice needed in an emergency. Where the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act has been adopted, the landlord must give at least two days' notice of an intent to enter and may enter only at reasonable times, except in an emergency or where notice is impracticable, and the resident may not unreasonably refuse entry for inspection, repairs, agreed services or showing the property. The landlord has no other right of access except by court order, on abandonment or surrender, or to do repairs the resident failed to make after a 14-day notice. An unlawful entry, a lawful entry made in an unreasonable manner, or repeated demands that harass the resident let the resident get an injunction or end the agreement, with actual damages and a reasonable attorney's fee. Outside adopting jurisdictions the lease and the common law govern, and nothing in Kentucky law addresses entry into a resident-owned home as distinct from a rented one. Applies only in part of the state: only in jurisdictions that have adopted KRS 383.500 et seq. KRS 383.615 (1) to (4); KRS 383.700 (2); KRS 383.665
Retaliation prohibited Yes Retaliation against a resident is prohibited in the cities and counties that have adopted the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act. The landlord may not raise rent, cut services or bring or threaten an action for possession after the resident complains to a code enforcement agency about a violation materially affecting health and safety, complains to the landlord about the landlord's maintenance duties, or organizes or joins a tenants' organization. Evidence of such a complaint within the previous year creates a presumption of retaliation, which does not arise if the complaint followed notice of a rent increase or a cut in services. The landlord may still sue for possession where the resident caused the code violation, is in default in rent, or the repair would require work that deprives the resident of the use of the property. Applies only in part of the state: only in jurisdictions that have adopted KRS 383.500 et seq. KRS 383.705 (1); KRS 383.705 (2); KRS 383.705 (3)

D. Termination and eviction

Rule Kentucky law Source
Just cause required to end a tenancy No A Kentucky community may end a month-to-month lot tenancy without giving a reason. Where the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act has been adopted the route is 30 days' written notice before the periodic rental date; outside those jurisdictions it is one month's written notice to a tenant at will or by sufferance. Cause matters only when the community wants to end the tenancy early, and even then the act lists no closed set of grounds. KRS 383.695 (2); KRS 383.195; KRS 383.660
Grounds for termination No state rule Kentucky does not list the grounds on which a lot tenancy may be ended. Where the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act has been adopted a community may end the agreement early in two situations: rent unpaid for 7 days after a written notice of the nonpayment and of the intention to terminate, or a material breach of the agreement or of the resident's maintenance and rules duties, on a written notice specifying the acts and omissions and setting a termination date at least 14 days out. Anything else runs through the no-cause 30-day notice. Outside adopting jurisdictions no statute lists grounds at all and the lease supplies them. KRS 383.660 (1); KRS 383.660 (2); KRS 383.695 (2)
Notice for nonpayment of lot rent 7 days Rent unpaid for 7 days after a written notice lets the community end the tenancy, in the cities and counties that have adopted the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act. The notice must state the nonpayment and the intention to terminate if the rent is not paid within that period, so the resident always has the 7 days in which to cure. One narrower rule sits alongside it: where the tenancy began when a written lease ended, a resident who does not pay within 10 days of the due date may be terminated at any time without notice. Outside adopting jurisdictions no statute sets a nonpayment notice period; the lease controls and the community proceeds by forcible detainer in District Court. Applies only in part of the state: only in jurisdictions that have adopted KRS 383.500 et seq. KRS 383.660 (2); KRS 383.695 (3); KRS 383.200; KRS 383.210 (1)
Notice for a rule or lease violation 14 days A lease or rules breach takes a written notice setting a termination date at least 14 days out, in the cities and counties that have adopted the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act. The notice must specify the acts and omissions that make up the breach. The section then reads that the agreement terminates if the breach is not remedied in 15 days, and it does not terminate at all if the resident adequately remedies the breach by repair, payment of damages or otherwise before the date the notice names. A landlord who accepts rent knowing of the breach waives the right to terminate for it unless the parties agree otherwise after the breach. Applies only in part of the state: only in jurisdictions that have adopted KRS 383.500 et seq. KRS 383.660 (1); KRS 383.675
Repeat-violation rule A repeat of substantially the same breach within six months may be terminated on 14 days' written notice. Where the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act has been adopted, if substantially the same act or omission that drew an earlier notice recurs within six months, the community may terminate on at least 14 days' written notice specifying the breach and the date of termination, without the cure step that applies to a first breach. The same six-month rule runs the other way for a resident faced with a repeated failure by the landlord. Outside adopting jurisdictions no statute addresses repeat breaches. Applies only in part of the state: only in jurisdictions that have adopted KRS 383.500 et seq. KRS 383.660 (1); KRS 383.625 (1)(b)
Time to sell or remove the home after termination No state rule Kentucky gives a resident no set period to sell or move the home after the lot tenancy ends. Where the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act has been adopted, a resident who stays on without consent faces an action for possession and, if the holding over is willful and not in good faith, up to three months' periodic rent or treble the actual damages, whichever is greater, plus a reasonable attorney's fee. Outside those jurisdictions the general holdover rules run: possession may be recovered without demand or notice if proceedings start within 30 days of the expiry of a term shorter than a year, or within 90 days for a term of a year or more. KRS 383.695 (4); KRS 383.160 (1) and (2); KRS 383.200 (3)(a)
Abandoned-home procedure No state rule Kentucky has no procedure for a community to deal with a manufactured home left behind on the lot. Nothing sets a waiting period, a notice to the owner and any lienholder, a sale or a transfer of title. Where the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act has been adopted it addresses abandonment only of a rented dwelling unit, by requiring the landlord to make reasonable efforts to re-rent at a fair rental and treating the agreement as terminated when the landlord has notice of the abandonment or accepts it as a surrender, and by allowing entry during an absence of more than seven days. That act also abolishes distraint for rent and makes a landlord's lien on the resident's household goods unenforceable unless it was perfected before August 1, 1984. KRS 383.670 (2) and (3); KRS 383.680; KRS 383.615 (4)(c)
Mediation or dispute-resolution requirement No state rule Kentucky requires no mediation or other dispute-resolution step before a community may evict from a lot. There is no ombudsman, no agency complaint route and no pre-suit conference. Possession is recovered by a forcible detainer action in the District Court of the county where the land lies, and the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, where adopted, leaves its own remedies to be enforced by action. KRS 383.200; KRS 383.210 (1); KRS 383.520 (2)

E. Closure and change of use

Rule Kentucky law Source
Notice before closure or change of use No state rule Kentucky requires no special notice before a manufactured home community closes or changes use. A closing community gives the same notice it would give to end any tenancy: 30 days' written notice where the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act has been adopted, one month's written notice to a tenant at will elsewhere. The health permit act, which is the only statute written for these communities, deals with permits, construction and sanitation and says nothing about closing one. KRS 383.695 (2); KRS 383.195; KRS 219.310; KRS 219.370
Variants (by trigger or park size) No state rule Kentucky has no closure notice, so there are no variants by trigger or by community size. Redevelopment, a sale, a change of use and a shutdown for any other reason all run on the ordinary tenancy-termination notice. KRS 383.695 (2); KRS 383.195; KRS 219.310
Relocation payment required No state rule No Kentucky statute requires a community to pay a resident's moving or relocation costs on closure. The health permit act creates no such duty and there is no tenancy act to carry one, so any payment depends on the lease or on a voluntary agreement. KRS 219.310; KRS 219.370; KRS 383.695 (2)
Relocation amounts No state rule Kentucky publishes no relocation amounts, because no relocation payment is required. Nothing sets a figure for moving a single-section or a multi-section home, and nothing indexes one. KRS 219.310; KRS 383.695 (2)
Who pays relocation None required No one is required to pay relocation costs when a Kentucky manufactured home community closes. There is no state relocation fund, no charge on lot rents to build one, and no duty on the community owner. KRS 219.310; KRS 219.370; KRS 383.695 (2)
Notice to a government body on closure No state rule Kentucky requires no notice to any government body before a manufactured home community closes. The Cabinet for Health and Family Services issues an operating permit that expires on the June 30 following its issuance and is renewable annually on application, so a community that stops operating simply lets the permit lapse; there is no closure filing, and no city or county notice is required. KRS 219.340 (2); KRS 219.330

F. Sale of the park

Rule Kentucky law Source
Residents must be told the park is for sale No state rule A Kentucky community owner does not have to tell residents the community is for sale. No statute requires notice of a listing, an offer or a completed sale. The operating permit is issued only for the person and premises, including the number of spaces, named in the application and is not transferable, so a buyer applies for its own permit, but that is a filing with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and reaches residents only through the rule that the permit be posted in the community or kept available for inspection. KRS 219.340 (3); KRS 219.340 (4); KRS 219.330
What triggers the notice No state rule Nothing triggers a sale notice in Kentucky, because no sale notice is required. Neither a listing, nor an offer, nor a signed contract, nor a completed transfer starts any duty toward the residents. KRS 219.340 (3); KRS 383.500
Residents' purchase right None required Kentucky residents have no statutory right to buy the community. There is no right of first refusal, no opportunity-to-negotiate period, no resident-association threshold and no right to assign a purchase right to a nonprofit or a local government. A 2026 Senate bill would have given tenants of rental property a right of first refusal; it was sent to the Committee on Committees on February 27, 2026 and went no further. KRS 383.500; KRS 219.340 (3)
Time for residents to respond No state rule Kentucky sets no response period for residents on a community sale, because residents have no purchase right and receive no sale notice. KRS 383.500; KRS 219.340 (3)
Resident-association threshold No state rule Kentucky sets no resident-association threshold. No statute recognizes a residents' association for purchase purposes or fixes the share of homeowners needed to act. Where the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act has been adopted, the only recognition of resident organizing is the bar on retaliating against a member of a tenants' organization. KRS 383.705 (1)(c); KRS 383.500
Transfers exempt from the sale rules No state rule Kentucky lists no transfers exempt from community sale rules, because it has no community sale rules. Foreclosures, family transfers, transfers between affiliated owners and government takings are all outside any notice or purchase requirement for that reason. KRS 383.500; KRS 219.340 (3)
Residents may assign the right to a nonprofit or municipality No state rule Kentucky residents have no right to assign a purchase opportunity to a nonprofit or a local government, because no purchase right exists to assign. KRS 383.500; KRS 219.340 (3)
Penalty for violating the sale rules No state rule Kentucky sets no penalty for breaking community sale rules, because it has none. The only penalties written for these communities sit in the health permit act: operating, constructing or altering a community without a permit, or breaking the act, the Cabinet's regulations or an order under them, draws a fine of $25 to $100, with each day of violation a separate offense. Where the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act has been adopted, its own rights are enforced by an aggrieved party's action for appropriate damages, and that party has a duty to mitigate. KRS 219.991 (2); KRS 383.520 (1) and (2)

G. The resident's home

Rule Kentucky law Source
Right to sell the home in place No state rule No Kentucky statute gives a resident the right to sell the home where it stands. Nothing bars a community from requiring the home to be moved out when it is sold, from refusing to rent the lot to the buyer, or from ending the sale by ending the tenancy on the ordinary no-cause notice. Where the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act has been adopted a community rule about sales still has to be reasonable, related to its purpose and applied fairly to all residents, but that is a limit on unreasonable rules rather than a right to sell in place. KRS 383.610 (1); KRS 383.500; KRS 219.310
Park may not take a commission on the sale No state rule Kentucky does not bar a community from taking a commission or a transfer fee on the sale of a resident's home. No statute addresses what a community may charge in connection with a sale, so the lease and the community rules control. KRS 383.545 (10); KRS 383.610 (1)
Park may screen the buyer No state rule Kentucky neither authorizes nor limits screening the buyer of a resident's home. No statute says a community may approve or reject an incoming buyer as a lot tenant, and none sets a standard or a deadline for that decision. Because the buyer needs a new lot tenancy that the community is free to refuse, screening happens under the community's own criteria. KRS 383.565 (1); KRS 383.610 (1)
Buyer-approval standard and deadline No state rule Kentucky sets no standard and no deadline for approving the buyer of a resident's home. There is no reasonableness test, no written-reasons requirement and no time limit for an answer. Where the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act has been adopted, any community rule used in the decision must serve a permitted purpose, be reasonably related to it, apply to all residents in a fair manner and be explicit enough to tell a resident what is required. KRS 383.610 (1)
Home may not be rejected for age, size or style alone No state rule No Kentucky statute stops a community from rejecting a home, or requiring its removal, because of the home's age, size or style. The one Kentucky rule about how manufactured homes are treated runs against local zoning rather than against community rules: since July 1, 2026 a local government may not exclude a qualified manufactured home from a residential zone where single-family homes are allowed, may not discriminate against one, and may apply architectural compatibility standards only where they are no more stringent than those applied to other single-family homes in the same zone. A qualified manufactured home there is one built no more than five years before installation, set on a permanent foundation, at least 20 feet wide at its smallest width or two stories, and at least 900 square feet. KRS 100.348 (3); KRS 100.348 (2)(d); KRS 100.348 (4); KRS 383.610 (1)
Park may require repairs before sale No state rule Kentucky does not address whether a community may require repairs or upgrades to a home before a sale. No statute permits or forbids it, and the lease and the community rules control. Where the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act has been adopted, the resident's own duties run to keeping the property clean and safe and not damaging it, and a community rule imposing more must still meet the act's reasonableness test. KRS 383.605; KRS 383.610 (1)
Right to post a For Sale sign No state rule Kentucky does not protect a resident's right to post a For Sale sign. No statute or regulation addresses signs at a manufactured home community, so a community rule banning or limiting them stands, subject only to the general reasonableness test on rules where the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act has been adopted. KRS 383.610 (1); KRS 383.500

H. The eight federal lender protections — which ones Kentucky law already requires

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac require eight tenant site lease protections in every manufactured housing community loan they buy. Where state law already requires a protection of every park, a resident has it whether or not the park has agency financing. Kentucky law requires 0 of 8. All 50 states are compared in our research study, including the 2018 federal survey baseline.

ProtectionKentucky lawBasis
One-year renewable lease term unless there is good cause for non-renewal Not required Neither limb is met. Kentucky makes a lot tenancy month-to-month by default and requires no offer of a one-year term, and a month-to-month tenancy may be ended without cause on 30 days' written notice where the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act has been adopted, or on one month's notice where it has not. (KRS 383.565; KRS 383.695; KRS 383.195)
30-day written notice of rent increases Not required Kentucky has no rent-increase notice requirement of any length; rent is a term the parties agree, and a change to a month-to-month resident's rent is made by ending the tenancy rather than by noticing an increase. (KRS 383.565; KRS 383.695)
5-day grace period for rent payments and the right to cure defaults on rent payments Partly Only the cure limb is met, and only where the act has been adopted: a nonpayment termination requires a written notice and the resident may cure by paying within 7 days. Kentucky sets no period after the due date in which no late fee may be charged and the tenancy may not be ended, so the grace-period limb is missing. (KRS 383.660; KRS 383.565; KRS 383.695)
Right to sell the manufactured home without having to first relocate it out of the community Not required No Kentucky statute bars a community from requiring the home to be removed when it is sold. (KRS 383.500; KRS 383.610)
Right to sell the manufactured home in place within 30 days after eviction by the community owner Not required Kentucky gives an evicted resident no period to sell the home in place; a resident who stays on after termination faces an action for possession and, if the holding over is willful, up to three months' periodic rent or treble damages. (KRS 383.695; KRS 383.160)
Right to sublease or assign the pad site lease for the unexpired term to the new buyer of the home without unreasonable restraint Not required No Kentucky statute lets a buyer take over or be assigned the lot tenancy, and none imposes an unreasonableness standard on the community's consent. (KRS 383.565; KRS 383.610)
Right to post "For Sale" signs that comply with the community's rules Not required No Kentucky statute or regulation protects a For Sale sign at a manufactured home community. (KRS 383.610; KRS 383.500)
Right to receive at least 60 days' notice of a planned sale or closure of the community Not required Kentucky requires notice of neither a sale nor a closure; a closing or selling community gives only the ordinary tenancy-termination notice of 30 days, or one month outside adopting jurisdictions. (KRS 219.340; KRS 383.695; KRS 383.195)

Notes and caveats

Common questions: Kentucky mobile home park law

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

How much notice must a Kentucky park give before raising lot rent?
Kentucky sets no state rule on this. Kentucky requires no advance notice of a lot-rent increase.
Is there a limit on how much lot rent can go up in Kentucky?
Kentucky sets no state rule on this. Kentucky sets no ceiling on lot-rent increases, and no city or county may set one.
Can a Kentucky park owner end a lot tenancy without cause?
Yes — Kentucky law does not require a cause. A Kentucky community may end a month-to-month lot tenancy without giving a reason.
How much notice must a Kentucky park give before closing or changing use?
Kentucky sets no state rule on this. Kentucky requires no special notice before a manufactured home community closes or changes use.
Does a Kentucky park have to pay residents' relocation costs when it closes?
Kentucky sets no state rule on this. No Kentucky statute requires a community to pay a resident's moving or relocation costs on closure.
Do Kentucky residents get a chance to buy the park when it is sold?
No — Kentucky law gives residents no right to buy the park. Kentucky residents have no statutory right to buy the community.
Can a Kentucky resident sell the home in place without moving it out of the park?
Kentucky sets no state rule on this. No Kentucky statute gives a resident the right to sell the home where it stands.

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Kentucky Mobile Home Park Laws (verified August 19, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/mobile-home-parks/kentucky/" — free to cite and quote with a link (how these records are verified).

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