KRS 244.590: Brewer or distributor prohibited from offering certain inducements to

retailers -- Brewer or distributor may furnish advertising matter or cleaning

service to retailer -- Retailer not to demand violation of this section -- Sampling

events not a violation of this section.

(1) No brewer or distributor shall induce through any of the following means any

retailer selling malt beverages by the package or drink to purchase any malt

beverages from that brewer or distributor to the exclusion in wh ole or in part of

malt beverages sold or offered for sale by other persons:

(a) By acquiring or holding, after the expiration of any existing license, any

interest in any license with respect to the premises of the retailer;

(b) By acquiring any interest i n real or personal property owned, occupied, or

used by the retailer in the conduct of the retailer's business;

(c) By furnishing, giving, renting, lending, or selling to the retailer, any

equipment, fixtures, signs, supplies, money, services, or other thi ngs of value,

except as the malt beverages administrator, having regard for the public

health, the quantity and value of the articles involved, the prevention of

monopoly, and the practice of deception, may permit through the

promulgation of an administrative regulation;

(d) By paying or crediting the retailer for any advertising, display, or distribution

service subject to the exceptions that the board may permit through the

promulgation of an administrative regulation;

(e) By guaranteeing any loan or the repayment of any financial obligation of the

retailer; or

(f) By requiring the retailer to take and dispose of a certain quota of any malt

beverages.

(2) Notwithstanding any provisions in KRS Chapters 241 to 244 and this section, a

brewer or distributor may:

(a) Give, rent, loan, or sell to any retailer selling malt beverages by the package or

drink signs, posters, placards, designs, devices, decorations, or graphic

displays bearing advertising matter and for use in windows or elsewhere in the

interior of a retail malt beverage establishment; and

(b) Provide or furnish draught-line cleaning or coil-cleaning service to a nonquota

retail malt beverage package licensee either directly or indirectly with the

consent of the distributor.

(3) A retailer shall not r equire or demand that a brewer or distributor violate this

section.

(4) Sampling events conducted under KRS 243.0307(2)(d) shall not be a violation of

this section.