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                    TELECOPIER (513) 579-6457

                         August 20, 1996


Direct Dial:  (513) 579-6411


Cintas Corporation
6800 Cintas Boulevard
Cincinnati, Ohio  45262

Gentlemen:

     We serve as your General Counsel and are familiar with your
Articles of Incorporation, By-laws and corporate proceedings.  On
this basis, we have made an examination as to:

     1.   The organization of Cintas Corporation (the "Corpora-
tion");

     2.   The legal sufficiency of all corporate proceedings of
the Corporation in connection with the authorization and issuance
of all presently outstanding and issued Common Stock of the
Corporation; and

     3.   The legal sufficiency of all corporate proceedings
taken in connection with the authorization of the issuance of
114,723 shares of Common Stock to be included in a Registration
Statement on Form S-3 to be filed with the Securities and Ex-
change Commission.

     Based upon such examination, we are of the opinion that:

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

     2.   The corporation has taken all necessary and required
corporate actions in connection with the issuance of
114,723 shares of newly issued Common Stock and the aforesaid
114,723 shares of Common Stock are validly authorized, legally
issued, fully paid and nonassessable shares of Common Stock of
the Corporation free of any preemptive rights.

     We hereby consent to be named in the aforesaid Registration
Statement and the Prospectus part thereof as the attorneys who
will pass upon legal matters in connection with the issuance of
the aforesaid Common Stock and to the filing of this opinion as
an exhibit to the Registration Statement and furthermore consent
to references made to this firm in the Registration Statement.
 
              	            Very truly yours,

	                    KEATING, MUETHING & KLEKAMP, P.L.L.

                            BY:________________________________
                                      Gary P. Kreider

