How many days' notice must a landlord give before raising rent in Kentucky?

No rent-increase statute — notice derives from tenancy-termination rules (see summary).

Does Kentucky have rent control?

No — Kentucky has no statewide rent control or stabilization. Kentucky has no statewide rent control and no cap on the size or frequency of increases, and local rent control is preempted statewide.

Does Kentucky preempt local rent control ordinances?

Kentucky law reserves rent control on private property exclusively to the General Assembly, barring cities and counties from enacting it, except for publicly assisted housing that local governments manage through housing authorities or federal programs.

Can a landlord raise the rent during a fixed-term lease in Kentucky?

Fixed-term rent is locked by contract unless the lease provides otherwise, and at renewal the landlord may propose any rent. No Kentucky statute sets a notice period or a limit for a rent change under any lease type; where the act is adopted, a landlord may not raise rent in retaliation for the complaints or tenant-union activity KRS 383.705(1) protects.

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

Verified October 1, 2026 Correction October 2, 2026 All Kentucky topics →

What did not become law. None of the following is law; failed bills are sometimes still described as 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with no further action; the 2026 Regular Session adjourned sine die 2026-04-15. 2026 RS HB 202, which would have repealed KRS 383.500 and applied a rewritten act to every lease of a dwelling unit in Kentucky, was referred to House Judiciary on January 14, 2026 and also died; no 2026 act amended KRS 383.500-383.715, 383.195, or 65.875 — a future statewide-URLTA enactment would rescope Kentucky landlord-tenant law across the board and is the top KY watch item. (checked July 9, 2026).

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.

Cited to KRS 65.875 and 3 more cited sources · Verified October 1, 2026

The practical floor depends on where the rental sits: in the jurisdictions that have adopted Kentucky's optional Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act (including Louisville and Lexington), 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 the statutory rules are a landlord's one month's written notice to end a tenancy at will or by sufferance (KRS 383.195) and the holdover rule for a tenant who stays after a fixed term ends (KRS 383.160), 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 bars any local landlord-tenant ordinance that conflicts 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	Fixed-term rent is locked by contract unless the lease provides otherwise, and at renewal the landlord may propose any rent. No Kentucky statute sets a notice period or a limit for a rent change under any lease type; where the act is adopted, a landlord may not raise rent in retaliation for the complaints or tenant-union activity KRS 383.705(1) protects.
Statewide rent control / stabilization	No
Rent control details	Kentucky has no statewide rent control and no cap on the size or frequency of increases, and local rent control is preempted statewide. Local rent control is expressly preempted 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 regulation	Kentucky law reserves rent control on private property exclusively to the General Assembly, barring cities and counties from enacting it, except for publicly assisted housing that local governments manage through housing authorities or federal programs.
Frequency limits	Not addressed by statute

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Notes and caveats

Why the notice field is blank — The notice answer is empty because no rent-increase-notice statute exists; the practical floors described in the summary are derivations from tenancy-termination rules, not from any rent-increase statute.
The derivation splits by jurisdiction — and the statute says so itself — in URLTA jurisdictions the derived floor is KRS 383.695(2)'s 30-day month-to-month termination rule; elsewhere it is KRS 383.195's one month's written notice (landlord to tenant, tenancies at will or by sufferance). KRS 383.195's own text says it applies '[i]n those jurisdictions where the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act is not in effect' — the split is explicit in the statute itself.
'Kentucky requires 30 days' notice for rent increases' is a misreading — the consumer-site claim misreads the URLTA month-to-month termination rule as a rent-increase rule, and it is doubly wrong outside URLTA territory.
Increases need only 'notice' — with no statutory period — KRS 383.705(2) (URLTA jurisdictions) provides that a retaliation presumption does NOT arise from complaints made after notice of a proposed rent increase — incidental statutory confirmation that increases need only 'notice,' with no period attached.
The preemption rests on KRS 65.875 — KRS 65.875 was created in 1992 and has never been amended; both the 'no rent control' and 'local control preempted' answers rest on it.

Common questions: Kentucky rent increase notice

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

How many days' notice must a landlord give before raising rent in Kentucky?: No rent-increase statute — notice derives from tenancy-termination rules (see summary).
Does Kentucky have rent control?: No — Kentucky has no statewide rent control or stabilization. Kentucky has no statewide rent control and no cap on the size or frequency of increases, and local rent control is preempted statewide.
Does Kentucky preempt local rent control ordinances?: Kentucky law reserves rent control on private property exclusively to the General Assembly, barring cities and counties from enacting it, except for publicly assisted housing that local governments manage through housing authorities or federal programs.
Can a landlord raise the rent during a fixed-term lease in Kentucky?: Fixed-term rent is locked by contract unless the lease provides otherwise, and at renewal the landlord may propose any rent. No Kentucky statute sets a notice period or a limit for a rent change under any lease type; where the act is adopted, a landlord may not raise rent in retaliation for the complaints or tenant-union activity KRS 383.705(1) protects.
How often can a landlord raise the rent in Kentucky?: Not addressed by statute.

Changes since last full verification

The Verified date above (October 1, 2026) marks the last time every figure on this page was verified end-to-end against official sources. The changes below were published since then, each verified against the official source it names (what these dates mean).

Correction, October 2, 2026 — Kentucky (correction): several pages had said that outside the cities and counties that have adopted the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act no statute applies. Two statewide sections do: a landlord may not charge a pet fee or deposit for an assistance animal (KRS 383.085(4)), and a tenant who holds over after a fixed term may be removed without notice only if the case is begun within 30 days after the term ends, or 90 days for a term of a year or more (KRS 383.160). The eviction timeline is restated from the statutes: about 19 to 21 days from the notice to the earliest warrant where the act applies, and about 11 to 13 days from filing where it does not. Also corrected: a local ordinance cannot lengthen the act's notice periods, because a locality must adopt the act whole and without amendment (KRS 383.500, 383.198); a landlord may enter during a tenant's absence of more than seven days, and the statute requires no documentation of it (KRS 383.670(2)); since June 27, 2025 the bar on billing a landlord for an emergency response fee reaches a response caused by a tenant or guest where the landlord kept the building to code (KRS 65.111); the Louisville owner-occupancy rule for new leases does not reach a lot with one single-family home and no accessory dwelling unit (KRS 383.199); the deposit and entry sections date from 1974 and were reenacted in 1984. No state publication lists the localities that have adopted the act; the pages now name Lexington-Fayette from its own code (section 12-54) and Louisville from a Court of Appeals decision, and no longer cite privately compiled lists.

Citations

KRS 65.875 (verified 2026) Official source
KRS 383.695 (month-to-month termination derivation, URLTA jurisdictions) · (2) (verified 2026) Official source
KRS 383.195 (non-URLTA termination derivation) (verified 2026) Official source
KRS 383.198 (2024 landlord-tenant ordinance preemption) (verified 2026) Official source

How this record was verified: Every section these answers rest on was read on the Legislative Research Commission's statute pages at apps.legislature.ky.gov. On October 1, 2026 each was read there again (the Commission's database includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session): KRS 383.500 to 383.715, the forcible entry and detainer sections 383.195 to 383.290, and KRS 383.085, 383.160, 383.302, 65.111, 65.875 and 446.030, together with the sections-affected tables for 2019 through 2026, the Administrative Office of the Courts forms AOC-215, AOC-216, AOC-217 and AOC-220, and Lexington-Fayette Urban County Code § 12-54, which enacts the act. No state publication lists the localities that have adopted the act; the Commission's 2018 local mandate statement on House Bill 550 gives a count. 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. Louisville Metro Code ch. 151 was read directly 2026-07-10 on the American Legal Publishing code library (codelibrary.amlegal.com, supplement 2026 S-47, current through ordinances of 2026-05-20) — § 151.01 titles the chapter the 'Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act' with an express statutory reference to KRS 383.500-383.705, ordinance lineage Jefferson County Ord. 22-1984 (adopted and effective 7-24-1984), recodified as 1994 Jeff. Code ch. 151, continued post-merger by Lou. Metro Am. Ord. No. 134-2006 (approved 8-23-2006); § 151.26 (security deposits) read in full and tracks KRS 383.580 verbatim in substance, including the separate-account/account-number disclosure, signed move-in/move-out damage listings with written dissent, the forfeiture-only penalty, and the 30-day (F) / 60-day (G) TENANT-side windows — confirming the reading given here that those windows are forfeiture rules, not landlord return deadlines. Metro-only additions beyond the URLTA text (eviction-court legal-representation §§ 151.60-151.61) noted and out of v1 scope.