(A) Any of the licenses issued under this chapter may be revoked by the City Alcoholic Beverage Control Administrator for any of the following reasons.
(1) If the licensee shall have violated any of the provisions under this chapter or of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, as set out in KRS Chapters 241, 242, and 243, or if the state license is revoked for any of the other reasons set out by the State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board.
(2) Conviction of the licensee or his agent or employee for making an illegal sale of alcoholic beverages on the premises licensed.
(3) Making any false, material statement in an application for a license.
(4) Transferring, assigning, pledging, depositing, or hypothecating a license, or paying for the license of another, or permitting another to pay for one’s own license.
(5) Selling or agreeing to sell alcoholic beverages to a wholesaler or retailer or to any person for resale who is not licensed to do so at that time.
(6) Willful or deliberate failure or default of a licensee to pay an ad valorem or excise tax, or any part thereof, or any penalties imposed by or under the provisions of any statutes or ordinances relative to taxation.
(7) Setting up, conducting, operating, or keeping, on the licensed premises, any gambling game, device, machine, or contrivance, or lottery or gift enterprise, or handbook or facility for betting or transmitting bets on horse races; or permitting to be set up, conducted, operated, kept, or engaged in, on the licensed premises, any such game, device, machine, contrivance, lottery, gift enterprise, handbook, or facility.
(B) The City Alcoholic Beverage Control Administrator, on his own initiative or on the complaint of any person, may institute proceedings to revoke any license issued under this chapter. Revocation shall be had only upon five days notice to the licensee, and an opportunity shall be given him to be heard at a public hearing.
(C) Within three days after any order of revocation of a license issued under this chapter becomes final, notice of revocation shall be given to the licensee and to the owner of the licensed premises. A notice mailed to the licensee and to the owner of the licensed premises at the address shown in the last application for a license or in the last statement supplemental to the application shall be deemed sufficient notice. The licensee shall at once surrender his license to the City Alcoholic Beverage Control Administrator. If the revoked license is not forthwith surrendered by the licensee, the Chief of the Police Department shall, at the request of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Administrator, immediately cause one of his police officers to take physical possession of the license and return it to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Administrator.
(‘83 Code, § 111.14) (Ord. 1134, passed 4-1-63; Am. Ord. O-16-2013, passed 10-7-13) Penalty, see § 111.99
Statutory reference:
Causes for revocation, see KRS 243.500
Causes for revocation, see KRS 243.500
Revocation proceedings, see KRS 243.520, 243.530