KRS 211.755: Breast -feeding permitted -- Municipal ordinances not to prohibit or
Where this section sits in the code
- 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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