(A) Any license may be revoked or suspended by the County ABC Administrator if the licensee shall have violated any of the provisions of KRS Chapters 241, 243 or 244, or any rule or regulation of the manufacture, sale and transportation or taxation of alcoholic beverages, or if the 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 under the terms of KRS Chapters 241, 243 and 244, to be created, referred to, 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 license maybe revoked or suspended for any cause that the County 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 County ABC Administrator would have been required to refuse a license if the facts had been known.
(C) Any license may be revoked or suspended for the following causes:
(1) Conviction of the licensee or his or her agent or employee for selling any illegal beverages on the premises licensed;
(2) Making any false material statements in an application for a license;
(3) If within a period of two consecutive years, any licensee, or any of the clerks, servants, agents or employees of that licensee, shall have been convicted of two violations of the terms and provisions of KRS Chapters 241, 243 and 244, or any act heretofore or hereafter in effect relating to the regulation of the manufacture, sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages, or if within that period, any licensee, or any of the clerks, servants, agents or employees of that licensee, shall have twice been convicted of any felony or of any misdemeanor directly or indirectly attributable to the use of alcoholic beverages, or of one such felony and one such misdemeanor;
(4) Willful and deliberate failure or defaults of a licensee to pay appropriate regulatory fees and/or other county obligations, or any part thereof, or any penalties imposed by or under the provisions of any statutes, this chapter or acts of Congress relative to taxation, or for a violation of any rules or regulations of the Department of Revenue made in pursuance thereof; and
(5) Revocation of any license granted under any act of Congress relative to the regulation of manufacture, sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages. Any license must be revoked or suspended in the case of sale of alcoholic beverages by the licensee at a price in excess of the price set by federal or state regulations.
(Ord. KOC 16-410-181, passed 5-17-2016)