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Kentucky · Snapshot 09/05/2026

KRS 525.055: Disorderly conduct in the first degree.

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  1. KRS Chapter 525

(1) A person is guilty of disorderly conduct in the first degree when he or she:

(a) In a public place and with intent to cause public inconvenience, annoyance, or

alarm, or wantonly creating a risk thereof:

1. Engages in fighting or in violent, tumultuous, or threatening behavior;

2. Makes unreasonable noise; or

3. Creates a hazardous or physically offensive condition by any act that

serves no legitimate purpose; and

(b) Acts in a way described in paragraph (a) of this subsection within three

hundred (300) feet of a:

1. Cemetery during a funeral or burial;

2. Funeral home during the viewing of a deceased person;

3. Funeral procession;

4. Funeral or memorial service; or

5. Building in which a funeral or memorial service is being conducted; and

(c) Acts in a way described in paragraph (a) of this subsection at any point in time

between one (1) hour prior to the commencement of an event specified in

paragraph (b) of this subsection and one (1) hour following its conclusion; and

(d) Knows that he or she is within three hundred (300) feet of an occasion

described in paragraph (b) of this subsection.

(2) Disorderly conduct in the first degree is a Class A misdemeanor.

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