(A) The County Judge-Executive shall serve as the County Alcoholic Beverage Control Administrator (hereinafter referred to as the County ABC Administrator), unless the County Judge-Executive appoints someone else to fill the position pursuant to KRS 241.110.
(B) The County Judge-Executive may from time to time appoint, with approval from the Fiscal Court, such additional personnel as is necessary to assist the County ABC Administrator in the administration of this chapter.
(C) The salary for the office of County ABC Administrator, if any, together with the salaries of any other personnel assisting the County ABC Administrator, shall be fixed from time to time by the Fiscal Court.
(D) The functions of the County ABC Administrator shall be the same with respect to county licenses and regulations as the function of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board of the state (hereinafter referred to as the ABC Board) with respect to state licenses and regulations, except that no amendment to these regulations proposed by the County ABC Administrator may be less stringent than the statutes relating to alcoholic beverage control, or than the regulations of the ABC Board. No regulation of the County ABC Administrator shall become effective until it has first been approved by the Fiscal Court.
(E) No person shall be a County ABC Administrator, or an investigator or an employee of the county under the supervision of the County ABC Administrator, who would be disqualified to be a member of the ABC Board under KRS 241.100.
(F) The County ABC Administrator shall have all authority as authorized under Chapters 241 through 244 of the Kentucky Revised Statutes.
(G) The County ABC Administrator 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 $1,000. This provision is waived if the County Judge-Executive remains as the County ABC Administrator.
(H) Appeals from the orders of the County ABC Administrator may be taken to the State ABC Board, by filing with the Board, within 30 days, a certified copy of the orders of the County ABC Administrator. Matters at issue shall be heard by the State ABC Board as an original proceeding. Appeals from the orders of the County ABC Administrator shall be governed by KRS Chapter 13B.
(Ord. KOC 16-410-181, passed 5-17-2016)