(a) Any license may be revoked or suspended by the City ABC Administrator per KRS 243.490 if the licensee shall have violated any of the provisions of KRS Ch. 241 through 244, administrative regulation of the ABC Board relating to the regulation of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages or of the Department of Revenue relating to the taxation of alcoholic beverages or if such licensee shall have violated or shall violate any act of Congress or any rule or regulation of any federal board, agency or commission, or this chapter now, heretofore, or hereafter in effect relating to the regulation of the manufacture, sale and transportation or taxation of intoxicating liquors or any rules or regulations of the city heretofore in existence or authorized by the terms of KRS Ch. 241 through 244 to be created, when an agent, servant, or employee of the licensee committed the violation, irrespective of whether the licensee knew of or permitted the violation or whether the violation was committed in disobedience of his or her instructions, or any such license may be revoked or suspended for any cause which the City ABC Administrator in the exercise of his or her sound discretion deems sufficient.
(b) A license may be revoked for any of the reasons for which the City ABC Administrator would have been required to refuse a license if the facts had been known.
(c) In addition to the foregoing stated causes, any license may be revoked or suspended for the reasons described in KRS 243.500.
(Ord. No. 1765, 4-12-10; Ord. No. 1896, § 6, 6- 26-17)