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Code · Kentucky · Kentucky Revised Statutes

242.1244 Local option for limited sale of alcoholic beverages purchased in

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conjunction with a meal -- Separate local option elections to be held for
restaurants seating fifty persons and those seating one hundred persons.
(a)In order to promote economic development and tourism, a dry or moist
city, county, urban county government, charter county, consolidated local
government, or unified local government may hold a local option election
on the sale of alcoholic beverages by the drink at restaurants that seat a
minimum of fifty
(50)persons and derive a minimum of seventy percent
(70%) of their food and alcoholic beverage receipts from the sale of food if
alcoholic beverages are purchased in conjunction with a meal. A petition
seeking a local option election under this subsection shall state "We the
undersigned registered voters hereby petition for an election on the
following question: 'Are you in favor of the sale of alcoholic beverages by
the drink at restaurants with a seating capacity of at least fifty
persons and which derive at least seventy percent (70%) of their food and
alcoholic beverage receipts from the sale of food if the alcoholic beverage
is purchased in conjunction with a meal?'".
(b)The local option election shall be held in accordance with KRS 242.020 to
242.040, and 242.060 to 242.120. The form of the proposition to be voted
upon shall be: "Are you in favor of the sale of alcoholic beverages by the
drink in (name of city or county) at restaurants with a seating capacity of
at least fifty
(50)persons and which derive at least seventy percent (70%)
of their food and alcoholic beverage receipts from the sale of food if the
alcoholic beverage is purchased in conjunction with a meal?". If the
majority of the votes in an election held pursuant to this subsection are
"Yes," licenses may be issued to qualified restaurants.
(a)In order to promote economic development and tourism, a dry or moist
city, county, urban-county government, charter county, consolidated local
government, or unified local government may hold a local option election
on the sale of alcoholic beverages by the drink at restaurants and dining
facilities which seat a minimum of one hundred
(100)persons and derive
a minimum of seventy percent (70%) of their food and alcoholic beverage
receipts from the sale of food.
(b)A petition seeking a local option election under this subsection shall state
"We the undersigned registered voters hereby petition for an election on
the following question: 'Are you in favor of the sale of alcoholic beverages
by the drink in (name of city or county) at restaurants and dining facilities
with a seating capacity of at least one hundred
(100)persons and which
derive at least seventy percent (70%) of their food and alcoholic beverage
receipts from the sale of food?'".
(c)The local option election shall be held in accordance with KRS 242.020 to
242.040, and 242.060 to 242.120. The form of the proposition to be voted
upon shall be: "Are you in favor of the sale of alcoholic beverages by the
drink in (name of city or county) at restaurants and dining facilities with a
seating capacity of at least one hundred
(100)persons and which derive
at least seventy percent (70%) of their food and alcoholic beverage
receipts from the sale of food?". If the majority of the votes in an election
held pursuant to this subsection are "Yes," licenses may be issued to
qualified restaurants and dining facilities.
(3)A local option proposition under subsection
(1)of this section is a separate
proposition than a local option proposition held under subsection
(2)of this
section, so that a separate limited local option election under each subsection
is permitted. A territory may, by separate limited local option elections,
simultaneously allow alcoholic beverage sales under subsections
(1)and
(2)of
this section. A territory may also hold a limited local option election to allow
alcoholic beverage sales under either subsection
(1)or
(2)of this section
without authorizing alcoholic beverage sales under the other subsection.
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