Landlord & Tenant Laws in Kentucky.

A tenant should first confirm that the rental property is in a Kentucky city, county, or urban-county government that has adopted URLTA, because the main statewide-cited security-deposit protections depend on local adoption.

In Kentucky jurisdictions that have adopted URLTA, a landlord generally must provide a final inspection opportunity, maintain an itemized accounting of damages, and return any refundable security-deposit balance after lawful deductions. These rights depend on URLTA applying in the locality where the rental property is located.

If a landlord covered by Kentucky URLTA fails to comply with the required security-deposit procedures, the tenant may be able to dispute the claimed deductions and seek recovery of the money due in the right case.