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Kentucky · Snapshot 09/05/2026

KRS 61.362: Agreement permitting peace officers to patrol private residential property

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  1. KRS Chapter 61

to enforce state and local traffic and motor vehicle laws.

(1) Any public police department, sheriff's office, or the Department of Kentucky State

Police may, upon written agree ment with a residential property owner or a

residential property owners' association, patrol the roadways and parking lots of

private residential communities within the jurisdiction of the public police

department, sheriff's office, or the Department of Kentucky State Police and enforce

the traffic and motor vehicle laws of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and local

traffic and motor vehicle ordinances, on that residential private property.

(2) This section shall not permit a public police department, sheriff's office, or the

Department of Kentucky State Police to enforce the private rules or regulations of

the residential property owner.

(3) This section shall not limit any peace officer from coming on residential private

property for the enforcement of the law , provided that the entry upon residential

private property is consistent with the provisions of the Constitution of the United

States, the Constitution of Kentucky, the Kentucky Revised Statutes, and applicable

court decisions.

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