Walk It Through: The County Without the Act
Which law applies, a month's notice to leave, and a forcible detainer case all the same.
A tenant rents a house in a small county and asks whether the landlord tenant act applies there.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
A tenancy at will in a county that never adopted the act. A written lease's own terms, which govern in either place, are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- Tenancy at willA tenancy with no fixed end, which, where the landlord tenant act is not in effect, a landlord ends with one month's written notice.
- Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant ActThe rental law in KRS 383.505 to 383.705, which applies only where a city, county or urban county government has adopted it, whole and without amendment.
- Forcible detainerThe court case for an eviction: a tenant's refusal to give up possession after the term ends, or after a tenancy at will or by sufferance is ended.