How much notice is required to raise the rent in Kentucky?

Verified July 9, 2026 All Kentucky topics →

Pending legislation — not yet law. The rules on this page reflect current law only. The following bill would change it if enacted:

HB 340 (2026 RS) — 'AN ACT relating to termination of residential leases' — Would have created early-termination rights (new sections of KRS ch. 383) for 'medically fragile' tenants (30 days' notice plus medical documentation), tenants 60+ or disabled on the death of a spouse or cotenant (60 days' notice), and tenants facing unabated lead hazards. Does not touch deposits, entry, late fees, or rent-increase rules, but it was the session's principal landlord-tenant bill and a likely refile.Status: Dead. Referred to House Judiciary 2026-01-21 with no further action; the 2026 Regular Session adjourned sine die 2026-04-15. No 2026 bill amending KRS 383.500-383.715, 383.195, or 65.875 was found; the perennial statewide-URLTA bills (2017 HB 510, 2018 HB 550, 2021 HB 595) were not refiled in 2026 — a future statewide-URLTA enactment would rescope every topic in this record and is the top KY watch item. (checked 2026-07-09).

Kentucky has no statute requiring advance notice of a rent increase, no limit on how large an increase can be, and no limit on how often rent can rise — anywhere in the state.

The practical floor depends on where the rental sits: in the jurisdictions that have adopted Kentucky's optional Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act (Louisville, Lexington, and a documented list of mostly Northern Kentucky cities plus a few counties), either party may end a month-to-month tenancy on 30 days' written notice before the periodic rental date, so an increase operates as an offer the tenant can refuse by leaving (week-to-week: 7 days). In the rest of Kentucky no periodic-tenancy statute exists at all; the only statutory rule is that a landlord ending a tenancy at will or by sufferance must give one month's written notice, with everything else left to the lease and common law. Rent control is preempted statewide: since 1992 only the General Assembly may enact rent-control legislation, and a 2024 law separately voids any local landlord-tenant ordinance conflicting with state law.

Kentucky rent increase notice at a glance

Notice — month-to-month	No rent-increase statute — notice derives from tenancy-termination rules (see summary)
Varies by increase size	Not addressed by statute
Fixed-term leases	No statute addresses rent changes for any lease type anywhere in Kentucky. Fixed-term rent is locked by contract unless the lease provides otherwise; at renewal the landlord may propose any rent.
Statewide rent control / stabilization	No
Rent control details	No statewide rent control and no cap on increase size or frequency. Local rent control is expressly preempted statewide by KRS 65.875 (1992): 'only the General Assembly shall enact legislation which would control rents on private property' (carve-outs for local housing-authority property and federally funded programs). Since March 2024, KRS 383.198 separately bars any local ordinance 'relating to landlord or tenant laws that is in conflict with any law of this Commonwealth' (created by 2024 Ky. Acts ch. 3, the source-of-income-preemption act), and KRS 383.500 has barred non-URLTA ordinances on URLTA subjects since 1984 — a triple lock on local rent regulation.
Local rent control preempted	Yes
Frequency limits	Not addressed by statute

Notes and caveats

notice_days_month_to_month is null per the TX/GA/NC/TN derivation convention — no rent-increase-notice statute exists; the derivations live in the summary. They are jurisdiction-split: KRS 383.695(2) (30-day m2m termination) in URLTA jurisdictions; KRS 383.195 (one month's written notice, landlord-to-tenant, tenancies at will or by sufferance) elsewhere — 383.195's own text says it applies '[i]n those jurisdictions where the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act is not in effect,' making the split explicit in the statute itself. Trap flagged: consumer sites' claim that 'Kentucky requires 30 days notice for rent increases' is a misreading of the URLTA termination rule and is doubly wrong outside URLTA territory. Also note KRS 383.705(2) (URLTA jurisdictions): a retaliation presumption does NOT arise from complaints made after notice of a proposed rent increase — incidental confirmation that increases need only 'notice,' with no statutory period. KRS 65.875 verified to exist and read twice (created 1992, never amended); rent_control_state false and local_control_preempted true both rest on it.

Statute citations

KRS 65.875 (official LRC text; read twice, fetches matched) Official source
KRS 383.695 (official LRC text; m2m termination derivation, URLTA jurisdictions; read twice, fetches matched) (2) Official source
KRS 383.195 (official LRC text; non-URLTA termination derivation; read twice, fetches matched) Official source
KRS 383.198 (official LRC text; 2024 landlord-tenant ordinance preemption) Official source

How this record was verified: Every load-bearing section read verbatim from official Kentucky LRC statute PDFs at apps.legislature.ky.gov (KRS 383.500, 383.580, 383.615, 383.695, 383.565, 383.570, 383.660, 383.535, 383.195, 383.198, 383.199, and 65.875), each with an independent second read on the FindLaw mirror (current through 2025-01-01) that matched — Justia, the usual second host, returned 403 throughout, so FindLaw served as the mirror. A third corroborating read of 383.565/.570/.580/.615/.695 came via the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Human Rights Commission's booklet of Ordinance No. 98-84 (the LFUCG URLTA adoption), whose reproduced text matched. The URLTA adopter list is from the Fort Knox Legal Assistance Office brief (US Army, government source) corroborated by a Kentucky landlord-side attorney's published list; no official registry exists. 2026 Regular Session (adjourned sine die 2026-04-15) swept via official bill pages and the LRC chapter listing, which is current through the 2026 RS and shows no amendments to any section used here.