(A) Any license may be revoked or suspended by the Administrator if the licensee shall have violated any of the provisions of KRS Chapters 241, 242, 243 or 244, or any rule or regulation of the ABC Board, or of the Department of Revenue relating to the regulation of the manufacture, sale or transportation or 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 or transportation or taxation of intoxicating liquors or any rules or regulations of the city heretofore in existence or authorized by the terms of KRS Chapters 241, 242, 243 and 244 to be created, 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 Administrator in the exercise of his sound discretion deems sufficient.
(B) A license may be revoked for any of the reasons for which the Administrator would have been required to refuse a license if the facts had been known.
(C) In addition to the stated causes identified in this chapter, any license may be revoked or suspended for any of the following causes.
(1) Conviction of the licensee or his agent or employee for selling any illegal beverages on the premises licensed.
(2) Making any false material statement in an application for a license.
(3) If within a period of two (2) consecutive years, any licensee or any clerk, servant, agent or employee of the licensee shall have been convicted of two (2) violations of the terms and provisions of KRS Chapter 241, 242, 243 or 244 or any act heretofore or hereafter in effect relating to the regulation of the manufacture, sale or transportation of alcoholic beverages or if within such period, any licensee or any clerk, servant, agent or employee of the 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 (1) such felony and one (1) such misdemeanor.
(4) Willful and deliberate failure or default of a licensee to pay an excise tax or any part thereof, or any penalties imposed by or under the provisions of any statute, this chapter, or acts of Congress relative to fees or taxation, or for a violation of any rules or regulations of the Department of Revenue made in pursuance thereof.
(5) Setting up, conducting, operating or keeping, on the licensed premises, any gambling game, device, machine or contrivance, 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, gift enterprise, handbook or facility.
(6) Any event, occurrence, or other reason identified in KRS 243.500.
(7) Any, event, conduct or occurrence in violation of KRS 244.120.
(Ord. 6-2020, passed 12-14-20)