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Kentucky · Snapshot 09/05/2026

KRS 211.755: Breast -feeding permitted -- Municipal ordinances not to prohibit or

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  1. KRS Chapter 211

restrict -- Interference prohibited.

(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of the law, a mother may breast -feed her baby

or express breast milk in any location, public or private, w here the mother is

otherwise authorized to be. Breast -feeding a child or expressing breast milk as part

of breast-feeding shall not be considered an act of public indecency and shall not be

considered indecent exposure, sexual conduct, lewd touching, or obscenity.

(2) A municipality may not enact an ordinance that prohibits or restricts a mother

breast-feeding a child or expressing breast milk in a public or private location where

the mother and child are otherwise authorized to be. In a municipal ordinance ,

indecent exposure, sexual conduct, lewd touching, obscenity, and similar terms do

not include the act of a mother breast -feeding a child in a public or private location

where the mother and child are otherwise authorized to be.

(3) No person shall interf ere with a mother breast -feeding her child in any location,

public or private, where the mother is otherwise authorized to be.

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