AN ACT relating to keeping chickens on residential property.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to define "backyard chicken"; allow a person to keep 6 or fewer backyard chickens on residential property in cities and certain other local governments; establish requirements and restrictions on local regulatory authority.

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This bill would allow Kentucky residents to keep up to six chickens on residential property within cities and certain other local governments, establishing a statewide baseline right to do so. It also sets limits on how much local governments can regulate or restrict backyard chickens. Who it may affect: homeowners and renters in cities and other local government jurisdictions who want to keep backyard chickens, as well as local governments that currently have their own rules on the matter.

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