(A) Pursuant to KRS 241.160, there is hereby created the office of City Alcoholic Beverage Administrator [“Administrator”].
(B) The Mayor shall serve as the Administrator, the Mayor may appoint someone else to fill the position pursuant to KRS 241.170.
(C) The Administrator may from time to time appoint such additional personnel as is necessary to assist him or her in the administration of this chapter.
(D) The salary for the office of Administrator, if any, together with the salaries of any other personnel assisting the Administrator, shall be fixed from time to time by the City Council.
(E) The functions of the Administrator shall be the same with respect to the City licenses and regulations as the functions of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board of the Commonwealth of Kentucky [“ABC Board”] with respect to state licenses and regulations, except that no amendment to these regulations proposed by the Administrator may be less stringent than the statutes relating to Alcoholic Beverage Control, or than regulations of the ABC Board. No regulation of the Administrator shall become effective until the City Council has first appropriately approved it.
(F) No person shall be an Administrator, an Investigator or an employee of the city under the supervision of the Administrator, who would be disqualified to be a member of the ABC Board under KRS 241.100.
(G) The Administrator shall have all authority as authorized under Chapters 241 through 244 of the Kentucky Revised Statutes. The Administrator, and the ABC Administrator’s investigators, may inspect any premises where alcoholic beverages are manufactured, sold, stored or otherwise trafficked in, without first obtaining a search warrant.
(H) Should the Administrator at any time have reasonable grounds to believe that any applicant, licensee, employee of a licensee, or any stockholder, agent or employee of a licensed corporation, LLC or other business organization, has a criminal record, he shall have the authority to require such person to appear in person at the Dry Ridge Police Department for the purpose of having his or her fingerprints taken.
(I) The Administrator before entering upon his or her duties as such, shall take the oath as prescribed in Section 228 of the Constitution and shall execute a bond with a good corporate surety in the penal sum of not less than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00). The Administrator may require any employee under the Administrator’s supervision to execute a similar bond in such penal sum as the Administrator deems necessary.
(Ord. 805-2016, passed 3-1-16)