{"data":{"id":"us-ky/krs-243.033","jurisdiction":"us-ky","citation":"KRS 243.033","heading":"Caterer's license.","body":"(1) A caterer's license may be issued as a supplementary license to a caterer that holds a\nquota retail package license, a quota retail drink license, an NQ1 license, an NQ2\nlicense, or a limited restaurant license.\n(2) The caterer's license may be issued as a  primary license to a caterer in any wet\nterritory or in any moist territory under KRS 242.1244 for the premises that serves\nas the caterer's commissary and designated banquet hall. The alcoholic beverage\nstock of the caterer shall be kept under lock and k ey during the time that the\nalcoholic beverages are not being used.\n(3) The caterer's license shall authorize the caterer to:\n(a) Purchase and store alcoholic beverages in the manner prescribed in KRS\n243.088, 243.250, and 244.260;\n(b) Transport, sell, serve, and deliver alcoholic beverages by the drink at locations\naway from the licensed premises or at the caterer's designated banquet hall in\nconjunction with the catering of food and alcoholic beverages in:\n1. Cities and counties established as moist territory under KRS 242.1244 if\nthe receipts from the catering of food are at least seventy percent (70%)\nof the gross receipts from the catering of both food and alcoholic\nbeverages;\n2. Precincts established as moist territory if the receipts from the catering\nof food are at least ten percent (10%) of the gross receipts from the\ncatering of both food and alcoholic beverages. This subparagraph shall\nsupersede any conflicting provisions of KRS Chapters 241 to 244;\n3. Wet cities and counties in which quota retail drink licenses are not\navailable if the receipts from the catering of food are at least fifty\npercent (50%) of the gross receipts from the catering of both food and\nalcoholic beverages; or\n4. All other wet territory if the receipts from the catering of food are at\nleast thirty-five percent (35%) of the gross receipts from the catering of\nboth food and alcoholic beverages;\n(c) Receive and fill telephone orders for alcoholic beverages in conjunct ion with\nthe ordering of food for catering services; and\n(d) Receive payment for alcoholic beverages served on a by -the-drink, cash bar,\nor by-the-event basis. The caterer may bill the customer for by -the-function\nsales of alcoholic beverages in the usual course of the caterer's business.\n(4) A caterer licensee shall not cater alcoholic beverages at locations for which retail\nalcoholic beverage licenses or special temporary licenses have been issued. A\ncaterer licensee may cater a charitable or nonprofit fu ndraising event for which a\nspecial temporary alcoholic beverage auction license has been issued under KRS\n243.036.\n(5) The location at which alcoholic beverages are sold, served, and delivered by a\ncaterer, pursuant to this section, shall not constitute a public place for the purpose of\nKRS Chapter 222. If the location is a multi -unit structure, only the unit or units at\nwhich the function being catered is held shall be excluded from the public place\nprovisions of KRS Chapter 222.\n(6) The caterer licensee shall post a copy of the licensee's caterer's license at the\nlocation of the function for which alcoholic beverages are catered.\n(7) All restrictions and prohibitions applying to a quota retail drink licensee and an\nNQ4 retail malt beverage drink licensee not inconsistent with this section shall\napply to the caterer licensee.\n(8) The caterer licensee shall maintain records as set forth in KRS 244.150 and in\nadministrative regulations promulgated by the board.\n(9) Notwithstanding subsection (3)(b) of this se ction, a caterer may serve alcoholic\nbeverages to guests who are twenty-one (21) years of age or older at a private event\nin dry territory if:\n(a) The alcoholic beverages were lawfully purchased in a wet or moist territory:\n1. By an individual; or\n2. At the caterer's licensed premises in wet or moist territory; and\n(b) The alcoholic beverages are not sold in dry territory to guests at the private\nresidence or private event regardless of whether the venue is a public place.\n(10) Notwithstanding any other pro vision of state law, the department shall not impose\nor attempt to enforce the following against a caterer:\n(a) Any minimum number of customers, consumers, or other persons required at\nan event for a caterer to cater that event; and\n(b) Any limit on the number of events a caterer may cater in any time period.","path":["KRS Chapter 243"],"source_url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=56754","current_through":"Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"09/05/2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T20:52:52Z","sha256":"ef74a502fbea731a9ffccd5044000f4c15bb45c51d834aaa1f7d12d12bf3fb29","source_id":"us-ky","stale":false,"prev":"us-ky/krs-243.032","next":"us-ky/krs-243.034"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}