2006 Kentucky Revised Statutes - .050   Railroad system license -- Commercial airline system license -- Transporter\'s license -- Convention center or convention hotel complex license -- Supplemental license.

243.050 Railroad system license -- Commercial airline system license -- Transporter's license -- Convention center or convention hotel complex license -- Supplemental license. (1) The office may issue a railroad system license to a railroad company upon the payment of the required fee. This license tax shall be in lieu of all license and excise taxes which would otherwise be due by the holder in connection with the retailing of alcoholic beverages. (2) The office may issue a commercial airlines system license to a commercial airlines system or charter flight system upon the payment of the required fee. This license fee shall be in lieu of all license and excise taxes which would otherwise be due by the holder in connection with the retailing of alcoholic beverages and the license may be renewed annually. The license shall authorize the licensee to sell distilled spirits and wine by the drink and by miniature bottle, and malt beverages, upon regularly scheduled or charter flights of the licensee, in and out of the State of Kentucky. The license shall authorize the licensee to store alcoholic beverages for retail sale at a location or locations, if operating from more than one (1) airport in Kentucky, as designated on the license application. (3) The office may issue a transporter's license to a commercial airline system, a charter flight system, or a commercial cargo system, upon the payment of the required fee. This license may be renewed annually. The license shall authorize the licensee to transport distilled spirits and wine and malt beverages, into and out of the State of Kentucky, upon regularly scheduled or charter flights of the licensee. The license shall authorize, for the purpose of transportation, the storage of alcoholic beverages at a location or locations, if operating from more than one (1) airport in Kentucky, as designated on the license application. This license shall authorize an airline to transport if both the consignor and consignee in each case are authorized by the laws of the states of their residence to sell, purchase, ship, or receive the alcoholic beverages. (4) The office may issue a convention center or convention hotel complex license for the retail sale of distilled spirits, wine, and malt beverages for consumption on the premises to a convention center or hotel having seating capacity of one thousand (1,000) or more persons. The license shall cover all alcoholic beverage sales on the premises, except that a separate hotel in-room service license shall be required, where applicable. An extended supplement license under subsection (5) of this section may also be issued where applicable. The convention center or convention hotel complex license shall be a nonquota license and shall not be transferable to other premises. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to convention center licenses or the renewal thereof, other than those in a city of the first class or a county containing a city of the first class or a consolidated local government, if the original license was issued prior to July 15, 1998. (5) Where it is determined by the office to be in the best interest of promoting tourism, conventions, and the economic development of Kentucky or any part thereof, the office may issue a supplemental license for the retail sale of alcoholic beverages by the drink at convention centers, at horse race tracks licensed to conduct a race meeting under KRS Chapter 230, at commercial airports through which more than five hundred thousand (500,000) passengers arrive or depart annually, and at automobile race tracks having a seating capacity of at least thirty thousand (30,000) people. Upon application by the holder of a retail alcoholic beverage license at a convention center, convention hotel complex, horse race track, automobile race track, meeting the requirements of this subsection, or commercial airport as provided above, the office may establish the days when the supplemental license will be valid at the specific location, including Sundays after 1 p.m. The supplemental license fee shall be established, and shall be in addition to all other licenses and fees due by the holder in connection with the retailing of alcoholic beverages. The office may, by administrative regulation or special conditions of the supplemental permit, establish such restrictions on the use of the license as will insure that it will be primarily for the benefit of the convention business, the horse racing industry, passengers at large commercial airports, and the automobile racing industry. Effective: July 15, 2002 History:Amended 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 346, sec. 218, effective July 15, 2002. -- Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 69, sec. 1, effective March 6, 2000; and ch. 435, sec. 10, effective July 14, 2000. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 522, sec. 26, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 340, sec. 3, effective July 15, 1982. -- Amended 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 380, sec. 1. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 2554b-115. Legislative Research Commission Note (6/20/2005). 2005 Ky. Acts chs. 11, 85, 95, 97, 98, 99, 123, and 181 instruct the Reviser of Statutes to correct statutory references to agencies and officers whose names have been changed in 2005 legislation confirming the reorganization of the executive branch. Such a correction has been made in this section.