AN ACT relating to alcohol sales.
     Amend KRS 241.160 to require fifth class cities that serve as a county seat to create an office of alcoholic beverage control administrator if the city imposes license fees for the privilege of trafficking alcoholic beverages or regulatory license fees on gross receipts of alcohol sales; amend KRS 242.127 to allow fifth class cities that serve as a county seat to hold a local option election for the sale of distilled spirits or wine by the drink; amend KRS 242.185 to allow fifth class cities that serve as a county seat or any county containing a fifth class city that is the county seat in which prohibition is not in effect to declare economic hardship and approve sale of alcoholic beverages by the drink at certain establishments by ordinance; amend KRS 243.030 to create state licenses for distilled spirits and wine for counties containing fifth class cities that serve as the county seat; amend 243.070 to create licenses and fees for the privilege of manufacturing or trafficking in alcoholic beverages in counties containing a city of the fifth class that serves as the county seat; amend KRS 243.075 to allow fifth class cities that serve as a county seat to impose a regulatory license fee upon gross receipts of each establishment licensed to sell alcoholic beverages; amend KRS 243.230 to allow fifth class cities that serve as a county seat to be issued license for distilled spirits and wine by the drink.

     Feb 2-introduced in House
     Feb 3-to Licensing & Occupations (H)