Bill > HB276

This bill establishes new rules for keeping chickens on residential property, defining a "backyard chicken" as a domesticated hen kept for personal egg production or educational purposes, specifically excluding roosters and those used for commercial farming. It mandates that cities and certain other local governments must allow individuals to keep up to six backyard chickens on their residential property and prohibits these local governments from enacting or enforcing any rules that would outright ban this practice. However, local governments are still permitted to create and enforce reasonable regulations to protect public health and safety, such as requiring setbacks for chicken coops, setting standards for sanitation to manage odors and pests, and prohibiting the commercial sale of eggs or chickens from residential properties. Any existing or future local rules that contradict these provisions will be considered invalid.

Government Affairs

https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/26RS/hb276.html