(A) The business or occupation of manufacturing, trafficking, or selling alcoholic beverages, either wholesale or retail, is of such a nature as to require special regulations and supervisions and special license provisions. There is hereby levied and established an annual license fee for the privilege of manufacturing, trafficking, or selling alcoholic beverages for any person or business in the respective sums or amounts hereinafter specified, and no person or business shall permit the manufacturing, trafficking, or selling of alcoholic beverages on its premises within the corporate limits of the city without first having paid the established fee and having obtained the prescribed license therefor. Nothing in this provision will be presumed to exclude a person engaging in the sale of alcoholic beverages from paving the occupational license fee required and imposed in this chapter, if in addition to engaging in the sale of alcoholic beverages some other business is transacted from the same premises.
(B) The following annual license fees are imposed on the manufacture or sale of alcoholic beverages, in addition to any occupational license fee that may be required herein.
City License Fees
| Fee |
City License Fees
| Fee |
Distilled Spirit licenses as set forth in KRS 243.030 | |
Distiller’s license, per annum | $500 |
Rectifier’s license, per annum | $3,000 |
Wholesalers distilled spirit and wine license, per annum | $3,000 |
Quota retail package license, per annum | $210 |
Quota retail drink license, per annum | $210 |
Special temporary license, per event | $150 |
Non-quota Type 1 retail drink license (includes distilled spirits, wine, and malt beverages), per annum | $2,000 |
Non-quota Type 2 retail drink license (includes distilled spirits, wine, and malt beverages), per annum | $500 |
Non-quota Type 3 retail drink license (includes distilled spirits, wine, and malt beverages) per annum | $300 |
Special temporary alcoholic beverage auction license | $50 per event for the first 4 events, cap of $200 per annum |
Special Sunday retail drink license, per annum | $150 |
Extended hours supplemental license, per annum | $2,000 |
Caterer’s license, per annum | $800 |
Bottling house or bottling house storage license, per annum | $1,000 |
Malt Beverage Licenses as follows: | |
Brewer’s license, per annum | $500 |
Microbrewery license, per annum | $500 |
Malt beverage distributor’s license, per annum | $400 |
Non-quota retail malt beverage package license, per annum | $52.50 |
Non-quota Type 4 retail malt beverage drink license, per annum | $52.50 |
Malt beverage brew-on-premises license, per annum | $100 |
Limited restaurant license (includes distilled spirits, wine, and malt beverages), per annum | $1,200 |
Limited golf course license (includes distilled spirits, wine, and malt beverages), per annum | $1,200 |
(1) The fee for each of the first five supplemental bar licenses shall be the same as the fee for the primary drink license. there shall be no charge for each supplemental license issued in excess of five to the same licensee at the same premises.
(2) The holder of a non-quota retail malt beverage package license may obtain a non-quota type 4 malt beverage drink license for a fee of fifty dollars ($50.00). The holder of a non-quota type 4 malt beverage drink license may obtain a non-quota retail malt beverage package license for a fee of fifty dollars ($50.00).
(Ord. 2013-15, passed 11-7-13; Am. Ord, 2021-16, passed 11-18-21)