(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. Effective: June 26, 2007 History: Amended 2007 Ky. Acts ch. 107, sec. 2, effective June 26, 2007. -- Created 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 50, sec. 1, effective March 27, 2006; and ch. 51, sec. 1, effective March 27, 2006. Legislative Research Commission Note (3/27/2006). This section was created by 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 50, sec. 1, and 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 51, sec. 1, which are substantially identical and have been codified together.
Notes of Decisions
Woodcock v. City of Bowling Green, 165 F. Supp. 3d 563 (W.D. Ky. 2016).
“100; disorderly conduct (misdemeanor), KRS 525.055 and 525.060; terroristic threatening (misdemeanor), KRS 508.”
Perdue v. Commonwealth, 411 S.W.3d 786 (Ky. Ct. App. 2013).
“500, and Disorderly Conduct pursuant to KRS 525.055. 1 The charges arose from an incident on June 6, 2011, when police officers were serving an arrest warrant on Perdue at his mother’s house on Crown Circle.”
McQueary v. Conway, 634 F. Supp. 2d 821 (E.D. Ky. 2009).
· cites it 3× “After the Court’s ruling on the preliminary injunction, the General Assembly amended the Act to delete the challenged provisions and the remaining provisions of the Act were codified at KRS 525.055, KRS 525.145 and KRS 525.155.”
Keith Rose v. Commonwealth of Kentucky (Ky. Ct. App. 2026).
· cites it 2× “The elements of disorderly conduct 1 in KRS 525.055 are that Rose: 1) in a public place and with intent to cause public inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm, (or having wantonly created such a risk), 2) engaged in fighting or in violent, tumultuous, or threatening behavior, and 3)…”
Sanders v. Main Event Ent. (W.D. Ky. 2024).
“078 and KRS 525.055. [DE 89-1 at 654]. Sanders himself concedes there is an “absence of specific expungement provisions for civil cases,” but argues that this “should not preclude the court from exercising equitable discretion to seal or remove court records in exceptional…”
— Ky. Rev. Stat. § 525.055(1)(b) — 1 case
Keith Rose v. Commonwealth of Kentucky (Ky. Ct. App. 2026).
“The elements of disorderly conduct 1 in KRS 525.055 are that Rose: 1) in a public place and with intent to cause public inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm, (or having wantonly created such a risk), 2) engaged in fighting or in violent, tumultuous, or threatening behavior, and 3)…”
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