Kentucky Has Some Strange Laws – Places of Entertainment

Kentucky Has Some Strange Laws – Places of Entertainment

      Kentucky has a chapter of KRS addressing the licensing of a “place of entertainment.”  A place of entertainment includes any in which there is a person “engaging in the practice of being a medium, clairvoyant, soothsayer, palmist, phrenologist, spiritualist or like activity, or one who, with or without the use of cards, crystal ball, tea leaves, or any other object or device, engages in the practice of telling the fortune of another.”  KRS § 231.010. 

      There is an exception from this rule for those who are merely pretending to tell fortunes as part of an exhibition presented by a religious, charitable, or benevolent institution; circuses, carnivals, and county fairs are likewise exempted.  Where, after appropriate application and as necessary a hearing has taken place, a permit is issued for the operation for a place of entertainment, it is required that there be posted a schedule showing the fees charged for readings, predictions and similar services.  KRS § 231.110(5).