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HB933 • 2026
AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages.
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AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages.
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AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages.
UNOFFICIAL COPY 26 RS BR 2346 Page 1 of 2 BR234600.100 - 2346 - XXXX 3/4/2026 4:59 PM Jacketed AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages. 1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 2 Section 1. KRS 241.065 is amended to read as follows: 3 (1) The number of quota retail package licenses issued by the Alcoholic Beverage 4 Control Board to licensees in counties containing cities of the first class, and 5 including such cities, shall n ot exceed a number equal to one (1) for every one 6 thousand five hundred (1,500) persons resident in such county. 7 (2) In order that a fixed and approved standard of population as prescribed in 8 subsection (1) of this section may be adopted, the annual estima tes of population as 9 determined by the Kentucky State Data Center at the University of Louisville shall 10 be used in every year except a census year, and during a census year the United 11 States government census figures of population shall be controlling. 12 (3) A quota retail package license in a county containing a city of the first class shall 13 not be granted for premises located closer than one (1) mile from the nearest 14 other quota retail package license premises. The distance between locations of 15 quota retail package licenses as prescribed by this section shall be measured by 16 following the lesser of the shortest route of ordinary pedestrian travel or the 17 shortest route of ordinary vehicular travel along public roads or thoroughfares 18 from the main entrances of both quota retail package license premises. 19 (4) The location or status of any establishment operating with a quota retail package 20 license on the effective date of this Act shall not be affected by subsection (3) of 21 this section. Subsection (3) of this sect ion shall not impair or limit the ability of 22 the location's owner or operator to renew the license for a location exempted 23 under this subsection. 24 (5) Any establishment exempted by subsection (4) of this section shall lose its exempt 25 status if the quota retail package license for that premises has lapsed, been 26 revoked, failed to renew, sold, transferred, or has become inactive or unavailable 27 UNOFFICIAL COPY 26 RS BR 2346 Page 2 of 2 BR234600.100 - 2346 - XXXX 3/4/2026 4:59 PM Jacketed for any other reason except: 1 (a) A temporary license suspension; 2 (b) The destruction of the premises property; or 3 (c) Loss of lease through the failure of the landlord to renew the lease. 4