




                       FACSIMILE  (513) 579-6957


                            November 28, 1994



Direct Dial:  (513) 579-6411




     Cintas Corporation
     6800 Cintas Boulevard
     P. O. Box 625737
     Cincinnati, Ohio  45262-5737

     Gentlemen:

          We  serve as your general counsel and are familiar with your
     Articles  of  Incorporation,  Bylaws  and  corporate  proceedings
     generally.   We  have reviewed  the corporate  records as  to the
     establishment of your Partners' Plan which calls for the issuance
     of shares of  Common Stock to  employees of  the Company.   Based
     solely upon such  examination and considerations,  we are of  the
     opinion:

           1.   That Cintas Corporation is a duly organized and validly
     existing corporation under the laws of Washington; and 

          2.   That  the  Corporation  has  taken  all  necessary  and
     required  corporate  actions  in  connection  with  the  proposed
     issuance of up  to 300,000 shares of Common Stock pursuant to the
     Partners' Plan and the  Common Stock, when issued  and delivered,
     will  be validly issued, fully paid  and non-assessable shares of
     Common  Stock of the Corporation free of any claim of pre-emptive
     rights.

          We hereby consent to be named in  the Registration Statement
     and  the Prospectus part thereof as the attorneys who have passed
     upon  legal matters in connection with the issuance of the afore-
     said Common Stock and to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit
     to the Registration Statement.

                                        Very truly yours,

                                        KEATING, MUETHING & KLEKAMP


                                        By:  \s\ Gary P. Kreider
                                              Gary P. Kreider

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