2021 Kentucky Revised Statutes Chapter 244 - Alcoholic beverages -- prohibitions, restrictions, and regulations 244.240 Distiller, rectifier, winery, or wholesaler not to be interested in retail premises -- Transactions prohibited -- Discounts in the usual course of business -- Retailer not to demand violation of this section.
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244.240 Distiller, rectifier, winery, or wholesaler not to be interested in retail
premises -- Transactions prohibited -- Discounts in the usual course of business
-- Retailer not to demand violation of this section.
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No distiller, rectifier, winery, or wholesaler and no employee, servant, or agent of a
distiller, rectifier, winery, or wholesaler shall:
(a) Except as provided in KRS 243.0305 and 243.155, be interested directly or
indirectly in any way in any premises where distilled spirits or wine is sold at
retail or in any business devoted wholly or partially to the sale of distilled
spirits or wine at retail;
(b) Make or cause to be made any loan to any person engaged in the manufacture
or sale of distilled spirits or wine at wholesale or retail;
(c) Make any gift or render any kind of service whatsoever, directly or indirectly,
to any licensee that may tend to influence the licensee to purchase the product
of the distiller, rectifier, winery, or wholesaler; or
(d) Enter into a contract with any retail licensee under which the licensee agrees
to confine the licensee's sales to distilled spirits or wine manufactured or sold
by one (1) or more distillers, rectifiers, wineries, or wholesalers. This type of
contract shall be void.
Nothing in this section shall prohibit the giving of discounts in the usual course of
business if the same discounts are offered to all licensees holding the same license
type buying similar quantities.
A retailer shall not require or demand that a distiller, rectifier, winery, or wholesaler
violate this section.
Effective: April 13, 2018
History: Amended 2018 Ky. Acts ch. 164, sec. 8, effective April 13, 2018. -- Amended
2017 Ky. Acts ch. 62, sec. 103, effective June 29, 2017. -- Amended 2016 Ky. Acts
ch. 80, sec. 24, effective July 15, 2016. -- Amended 2013 Ky. Acts ch. 121, sec. 88,
effective June 25, 2013. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective
October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 2554b-168.
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