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241.010 Definitions for KRS Chapters 241, 242, and 243.
As used in this chapter and in KRS Chapters 242 and 243, unless the context requires
otherwise:
(1) "Alcohol" means ethyl alcohol, hydrated oxide of ethyl or spirit of wine, from
whatever source or by whatever process it is produced;
(2) "Alcoholic beverage" means every liquid, solid, powder, or crystal, whether
patented or not, containing alcohol in an amount in excess of more than one percent
(1%) of alcohol by volume, which is fit for beverage purposes. It includes every
spurious or imitation liquor sold as, or under any name commonly used for,
alcoholic beverages, whether containing any alcohol or not. It does not include the
following products:
(a) Medicinal preparations manufactured in accordance with formulas prescribed
by the United States Pharmacopoeia, National Formulary, or the American
Institute of Homeopathy;
(b) Patented, patent, and proprietary medicines;
(c) Toilet, medicinal, and antiseptic preparations and solutions;
(d) Flavoring extracts and syrups;
(e) Denatured alcohol or denatured rum;
(f) Vinegar and preserved sweet cider;
(g) Wine for sacramental purposes; and
(h) Alcohol unfit for beverage purposes that is to be sold for legitimate external
use;
(3) (a) "Alcohol vaporizing device" or "AWOL device" means any device, machine,
or process that mixes liquor, spirits, or any other alcohol product with pure
oxygen or by any other means produces a vaporized alcoholic product used for
human consumption;
(b) "Alcohol vaporizing device" or "AWOL device" does not include an inhaler,
nebulizer, atomizer, or other device that is designed and intended by the
manufacturer to dispense a prescribed or over-the-counter medication or a
device installed and used by a licensee under this chapter to demonstrate the
aroma of an alcoholic beverage;
(4) "Automobile race track" means a facility primarily used for vehicle racing that has a
seating capacity of at least thirty thousand (30,000) people;
(5) "Bed and breakfast" means a one (1) family dwelling unit that:
(a) Has guest rooms or suites used, rented, or hired out for occupancy or that are
occupied for sleeping purposes by persons not members of the single-family
unit;
(b) Holds a permit under KRS Chapter 219; and
(c) Has an innkeeper who resides on the premises or property adjacent to the
premises during periods of occupancy;
(6) "Board" means the State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board created by KRS
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"Bottle" means any container which is used for holding alcoholic beverages for the
use and sale of alcoholic beverages at retail;
"Brewer" means any person who manufactures malt beverages or owns, occupies,
carries on, works, or conducts any brewery, either alone or through an agent;
"Brewery" means any place or premises where malt beverages are manufactured for
sale, and includes all offices, granaries, mash rooms, cooling rooms, vaults, yards,
and storerooms connected with the premises; or where any part of the process of the
manufacture of malt beverages is carried on; or where any apparatus connected with
manufacture is kept or used; or where any of the products of brewing or
fermentation are stored or kept;
"Building containing licensed premises" means the licensed premises themselves
and includes the land, tract of land, or parking lot in which the premises are
contained, and any part of any building connected by direct access or by an entrance
which is under the ownership or control of the licensee by lease holdings or
ownership;
"Caterer" means a corporation, partnership, or individual that operates the business
of a food service professional by preparing food in a licensed and inspected
commissary, transporting the food and alcoholic beverages to the caterer's
designated and inspected banquet hall or to a location selected by the customer, and
serving the food and alcoholic beverages to the customer's guests;
"Charitable organization" means a nonprofit entity recognized as exempt from
federal taxation under section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. sec.
501(c)) or any organization having been established and continuously operating
within the Commonwealth of Kentucky for charitable purposes for three (3) years
and which expends at least sixty percent (60%) of its gross revenue exclusively for
religious, educational, literary, civic, fraternal, or patriotic purposes;
"Cider" means any fermented fruit-based beverage containing seven percent (7%) or
more alcohol by volume and includes hard cider and perry cider;
"City administrator" means city alcoholic beverage control administrator;
"Commercial airport" means an airport through which more than five hundred
thousand (500,000) passengers arrive or depart annually;
"Commercial quadricycle" means a vehicle equipped with a minimum of ten (10)
pairs of fully operative pedals for propulsion by means of human muscular power
exclusively and which:
(a) Has four (4) wheels;
(b) Is operated in a manner similar to that of a bicycle;
(c) Is equipped with a minimum of thirteen (13) seats for passengers;
(d) Has a unibody design;
(e) Is equipped with a minimum of four (4) hydraulically operated brakes;
(f) Is used for commercial tour purposes; and
(g) Is operated by the vehicle owner or an employee of the owner;
(17) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of the Department of Alcoholic Beverage
Control;
(18) "Convention center" means any facility which, in its usual and customary business,
provides seating for a minimum of one thousand (1,000) people and offers
convention facilities and related services for seminars, training and educational
purposes, trade association meetings, conventions, or civic and community events
or for plays, theatrical productions, or cultural exhibitions;
(19) "Convicted" and "conviction" means a finding of guilt resulting from a plea of
guilty, the decision of a court, or the finding of a jury, irrespective of a
pronouncement of judgment or the suspension of the judgment;
(20) "County administrator" means county alcoholic beverage control administrator;
(21) "Department" means the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control;
(22) "Dining car" means a railroad passenger car that serves meals to consumers on any
railroad or Pullman car company;
(23) "Discount in the usual course of business" means price reductions, rebates, refunds,
and discounts given by wholesalers to distilled spirits and wine retailers pursuant to
an agreement made at the time of the sale of the merchandise involved and are
considered a part of the sales transaction, constituting reductions in price pursuant
to the terms of the sale, irrespective of whether the quantity discount was:
(a) Prorated and allowed on each delivery;
(b) Given in a lump sum after the entire quantity of merchandise purchased had
been delivered; or
(c) Based on dollar volume or on the quantity of merchandise purchased;
(24) "Distilled spirits" or "spirits" means any product capable of being consumed by a
human being which contains alcohol in excess of the amount permitted by KRS
Chapter 242 obtained by distilling, mixed with water or other substances in
solution, except wine, hard cider, and malt beverages;
(25) "Distiller" means any person who is engaged in the business of manufacturing
distilled spirits at any distillery in the state and is registered in the Office of the
Collector of Internal Revenue for the United States at Louisville, Kentucky;
(26) "Distillery" means any place or premises where distilled spirits are manufactured for
sale, and which are registered in the office of any collector of internal revenue for
the United States. It includes any United States government bonded warehouse;
(27) "Distributor" means any person who distributes malt beverages for the purpose of
being sold at retail;
(28) "Dry" means a territory in which a majority of the electorate voted to prohibit all
forms of retail alcohol sales through a local option election held under KRS Chapter
242;
(29) "Election" means:
(a) An election held for the purpose of taking the sense of the people as to the
application or discontinuance of alcoholic beverage sales under KRS Chapter
242; or
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(b) Any other election not pertaining to alcohol;
"Field representative" means any employee or agent of the department who is
regularly employed and whose primary function is to travel from place to place for
the purpose of visiting taxpayers, and any employee or agent of the department who
is assigned, temporarily or permanently, by the commissioner to duty outside the
main office of the department at Frankfort, in connection with the administration of
alcoholic beverage statutes;
"Horse racetrack" means a facility licensed to conduct a horse race meeting under
KRS Chapter 230;
"Hotel" means a hotel, motel, or inn for accommodation of the traveling public,
designed primarily to serve transient patrons;
"License" means any license issued pursuant to KRS Chapters 241 to 244;
"Licensee" means any person to whom a license has been issued, pursuant to KRS
Chapters 241 to 244;
"Limited restaurant" means:
(a) A facility where the usual and customary business is the serving of meals to
consumers, which has a bona fide kitchen facility, which receives at least
seventy percent (70%) of its gross receipts from the sale of food, which
maintains a minimum seating capacity of one hundred (100) persons for
dining, and which is located in a wet or moist territory under KRS
242.1244(2); or
(b) A facility where the usual and customary business is the serving of meals to
consumers, which has a bona fide kitchen facility, which receives at least
seventy percent (70%) of its gross receipts from the sale of food, which
maintains a minimum seating capacity of fifty (50) persons for dining, which
has no open bar, which requires that alcoholic beverages be sold in
conjunction with the sale of a meal, and which is located in a wet or moist
territory under KRS 242.1244;
"Malt beverage" means any fermented undistilled alcoholic beverage of any name or
description, manufactured from malt wholly or in part, or from any substitute for
malt, and includes weak cider;
"Manufacture" means distill, rectify, brew, bottle, and operate a winery;
"Manufacturer" means a winery, distiller, rectifier, or brewer, and any other person
engaged in the production or bottling of alcoholic beverages;
"Minor" means any person who is not twenty-one (21) years of age or older;
"Moist" means a territory in which a majority of the electorate voted to permit
limited alcohol sales by any one (1) or a combination of special limited local option
elections authorized by KRS 242.022, 242.123, 242.1238, 242.124, 242.1242,
242.1243, 242.1244, or 242.1292;
"Premises" means the land and building in and upon which any business regulated
by alcoholic beverage statutes is operated or carried on. "Premises" shall not include
as a single unit two (2) or more separate businesses of one (1) owner on the same
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lot or tract of land, in the same or in different buildings if physical and permanent
separation of the premises is maintained, excluding employee access by keyed entry
and emergency exits equipped with crash bars, and each has a separate public
entrance accessible directly from the sidewalk or parking lot. Any licensee holding
an alcoholic beverage license on July 15, 1998, shall not, by reason of this
subsection, be ineligible to continue to hold his or her license or obtain a renewal,
of the license;
"Private club" means a nonprofit social, fraternal, military, or political organization,
club, or entity maintaining or operating a club room, club rooms, or premises from
which the general public is excluded;
"Public nuisance" means a condition that endangers safety or health, is offensive to
the senses, or obstructs the free use of property so as to interfere with the
comfortable enjoyment of life or property by a community or neighborhood or by
any considerable number of persons;
"Qualified historic site" means a contributing property with dining facilities for at
least fifty (50) persons at tables, booths, or bars where food may be served within a
commercial district listed in the National Register of Historic Places, or a site that is
listed as a National Historic Landmark or in the National Register of Historic Places
with dining facilities for at least fifty (50) persons at tables, booths, or bars where
food may be served. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection:
(a) A distillery which is listed as a National Historic Landmark and which
conducts souvenir retail package sales under KRS 243.0305; and
(b) A not-for-profit or nonprofit facility listed on the National Register of Historic
Places;
shall be deemed a "qualified historic site" under this section;
"Rectifier" means any person who rectifies, purifies, or refines distilled spirits or
wine by any process other than as provided for on distillery premises, and every
person who, without rectifying, purifying, or refining distilled spirits by mixing
alcoholic beverages with any materials, manufactures any imitations of or
compounds liquors for sale under the name of whiskey, brandy, gin, rum, wine,
spirits, cordials, bitters, or any other name;
"Repackaging" means the placing of alcoholic beverages in any retail container
irrespective of the material from which the container is made;
"Restaurant" means a facility where the usual and customary business is the serving
of meals to consumers, that has a bona fide kitchen facility, and that receives at least
fifty percent (50%) of its food and beverage receipts from the sale of food;
"Retail container" means any bottle, can, barrel, or other container which, without a
separable intermediate container, holds alcoholic beverages and is suitable and
destined for sale to a retail outlet, whether it is suitable for delivery to the consumer
or not;
"Retail outlet" means retailer, hotel, motel, restaurant, railroad dining car, club, and
any facility where alcoholic beverages are sold directly to the consumers;
"Retail sale" means any sale where delivery is made in Kentucky to any consumers;
(51) "Retailer" means any person who sells at retail any alcoholic beverage for the sale
of which a license is required;
(52) "Riverboat" means any boat or vessel with a regular place of mooring in this state
that is licensed by the United States Coast Guard to carry one hundred (100) or
more passengers for hire on navigable waters in or adjacent to this state;
(53) "Sale" means any transfer, exchange, or barter for consideration, and includes all
sales made by any person, whether principal, proprietor, agent, servant, or
employee, of any alcoholic beverage;
(54) "Service bar" means a bar, counter, shelving, or similar structure used for storing or
stocking supplies of alcoholic beverages that is a workstation where employees
prepare alcoholic beverage drinks to be delivered to customers away from the
service bar. A service bar shall be located in an area where the general public,
guests, or patrons are prohibited;
(55) "Sell" includes solicit or receive an order for, keep or expose for sale, keep with
intent to sell, and the delivery of any alcoholic beverage;
(56) "Small farm winery" means a winery producing wines, in an amount not to exceed
one hundred thousand (100,000) gallons in a calendar year;
(57) "Souvenir package" means a special package of distilled spirits available from a
licensed retailer that is:
(a) Available for retail sale at a licensed Kentucky distillery where the distilled
spirits were produced or bottled; or
(b) Available for retail sale at a licensed Kentucky distillery but produced or
bottled at another of that distiller's licensed distilleries in Kentucky;
(58) "State director" means the director of the Division of Distilled Spirits or the director
of the Division of Malt Beverages, or both, as the context requires;
(59) "State park" means a state park that has a:
(a) Nine (9) or eighteen (18) hole golf course; or
(b) Full-service lodge and dining room, and may include a nine (9) or eighteen
(18) hole golf course;
(60) "Supplemental bar" means a bar, counter, shelving, or similar structure used for
serving and selling distilled spirits or wine by the drink for consumption on the
licensed premises to guests and patrons from additional locations other than the
main bar. A supplemental bar shall be continuously constructed and accessible to
patrons for distilled spirits or wine sales or service without physical separation by
walls, doors, or similar structures;
(61) "Territory" means a county, city, district, or precinct;
(62) "Vehicle" means any device or animal used to carry, convey, transport, or otherwise
move alcoholic beverages or any products, equipment, or appurtenances used to
manufacture, bottle, or sell these beverages;
(63) "Warehouse" means any place in which alcoholic beverages are housed or stored;
(64) "Weak cider" means any fermented fruit-based beverage containing more than one
percent (1%) but less than seven percent (7%) alcohol by volume;
(65) "Wet" means a territory in which a majority of the electorate voted to permit all
forms of retail alcohol sales by a local option election under KRS 242.050, 242.125,
or 242.1292 on the following question: "Are you in favor of the sale of alcoholic
beverages in (name of territory)?";
(66) "Wholesale sale" means a sale to any person for the purpose of resale;
(67) "Wholesaler" means any person who distributes alcoholic beverages for the purpose
of being sold at retail, but it shall not include a subsidiary of a manufacturer or
cooperative of a retail outlet;
(68) "Wine" means the product of the normal alcoholic fermentation of the juices of
fruits, with the usual processes of manufacture and normal additions, and includes
champagne and sparkling and fortified wine of an alcoholic content not to exceed
twenty-four percent (24%) by volume. It includes sake, cider, hard cider, and perry
cider and also includes preparations or mixtures vended in retail containers if these
preparations or mixtures contain not more than fifteen percent (15%) of alcohol by
volume. It does not include weak cider; and
(69) "Winery" means any place or premises in which wine is manufactured from any
fruit, or brandies are distilled as a by-product of wine or other fruit, or cordials are
compounded, except a place or premises that manufactures wine for sacramental
purposes exclusively.
Effective: July 15, 2016
History: Amended 2016 Ky. Acts ch. 80, sec. 1, effective July 15, 2016. -- Amended
2014 Ky. Acts ch. 20, sec. 1, effective July 15, 2014; and ch. 22, sec. 1, effective
July 15, 2014. -- Amended 2013 Ky. Acts ch. 121, sec. 1, effective June 25, 2013. -Amended 2012 Ky. Acts ch. 125, sec. 1, effective July 12, 2012. -- Amended 2010
Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 549, effective July 15, 2010.-- Amended 2008 Ky. Acts ch. 28,
sec. 2, effective July 15, 2008. -- Amended 2007 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 1, effective
June 26, 2007. -- Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 179, sec. 6, effective January 1, 2007.
-- Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 645, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended
2004 Ky. Acts ch. 20, sec. 2, effective July 13, 2004. -- Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch.
435, sec. 1, effective July 14, 2000. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 121, sec. 1,
effective July 15, 1998; and ch. 474, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended
1996 Ky. Acts ch. 44, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1996. -- Amended 1976 Ky. Acts ch.
381, sec. 6. -- Amended 1970 Ky. Acts ch. 94, sec. 1. -- Amended 1944 Ky. Acts ch.
154, secs. 1, 2 and 3. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October
1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 2554b-98.
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