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DUI law in Kentucky
The criminal charge and your driving privileges are separate questions. Check both.
DUI law in Kentucky concerns both the criminal charge and the right to drive. The applicable licence process depends on the alleged conduct, test result or refusal, and the notice or court order. A criminal court date is not a substitute for checking a separate licence deadline. The cited rules below identify what has been verified for this jurisdiction.
The two legal questions
The criminal charge and driving privileges can involve different proceedings. The notice, order and cited rule identify the applicable process.
Driving privileges
The licence case
- Forum
- The agency or court identified by the applicable licence proceeding
- Clock
- Check the applicable notice or order for the deadline and its starting event
- Deadline to request a hearing
- For a pretrial suspension under KRS 189A.200, the court must conduct judicial review within 30 days after the motion for review is filed. Section 189A.200(2) does not state a numerical deadline for filing that motion.
- The 30-day period is the court’s review period after filing, not a deadline requiring the driver to request review within 30 days of arrest or suspension.
- This answer concerns the court-ordered pretrial suspension procedure in KRS 189A.200. It does not establish that no other deadline or court requirement can apply.
- Suspension under the cited rule
- Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.
- Hearing procedure under the cited rule
- A person whose license is suspended under KRS 189A.200 may file a motion for judicial review of the suspension with the court. The court must advise the defendant of the right to review when it orders the suspension.
- This is judicial review of a court-ordered pretrial suspension, not a general request for an agency administrative hearing.
- The court must conduct the review under Chapter 189A within 30 days after the motion is filed. That review period is not a 30-day filing deadline.
Criminal charge
The criminal case
- Forum
- A criminal court
- Clock
- Check court notices and orders; no case duration is predicted here
- Alcohol-concentration threshold
- Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.
- First-offense penalty rule
- Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.The cited rule may describe a range or a minimum with conditions, not a predicted sentence.
- Lookback period
- Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.
Alcohol-concentration thresholds in Kentucky
The cited provision controls the threshold’s scope. Underage and commercial rules can concern licensing as well as criminal liability; they are not all the same offense.
- Standard drivers
- Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.
- Operating a commercial motor vehicle
- Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.
- Under-21 rule
- Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.
Kentucky in detail
8 further Kentucky topics — interlock, hardship licences, drug DUI, felony DUI, underage, commercial drivers, checkpoints and record relief — are part of the approved taxonomy and are not built yet.