{"data":{"id":"us-ky/krs-244.290","jurisdiction":"us-ky","citation":"KRS 244.290","heading":"Sales of distilled spirits or wine when polls are open permitted in wet or","body":"moist territory -- Power of local governments to regulate -- Sunday sales.\n(1) (a) A licensee authorized to sell distilled spirits or wine at retail shall be\npermitted to sell and deliver distilled spirits and wine during the hours the\npolls are open on any primary, or regular, local option, or special election day\nunless it is located where the legislative body of a city, urban -county\ngovernment, consolidated l ocal government, charter county government,\nunified local government, or the fiscal court of a county adopts an ordinance\nafter June 25, 2013, that prohibits the sale of distilled spirits and wine or\nlimits the hours and times in which distilled spirits an d wine may be sold\nwithin its jurisdictional boundaries on any primary, or regular, local option, or\nspecial election day during the hours the polls are open.\n(b) This subsection shall only apply in a wet or moist territory.\n(c) Notwithstanding any other p rovision of the Kentucky Revised Statutes to the\ncontrary, the fiscal court of a county shall not by ordinance or any other\nmeans:\n1. Supersede, reverse, or modify any decision made pursuant to this\nsubsection by the legislative body of a city within that county; or\n2. Impose an action upon a city within that county when that city has taken\nno formal action pursuant to this subsection.\n(2) In any county containing a city of the first class, or a city with a population equal to\nor greater than twenty thousan d (20,000) based upon the most recent federal\ndecennial census in which the sale of distilled spirits and wine by the drink is\npermitted under KRS Chapter 242, an election on the question of permitting the sale\nof distilled spirits and wine by the drink on Sunday may be held as provided in KRS\nChapter 242.\n(3) Except as permitted by KRS 243.050 and subsection (4) of this section, a licensee\nauthorized to sell distilled spirits or wine at retail shall not sell or deliver distilled\nspirits and wine between mi dnight and 6 a.m. or at any time during the twenty -four\n(24) hours of a Sunday.\n(4) (a) A licensee authorized to sell distilled spirits and wine at retail may sell and\ndeliver distilled spirits and wine on Sunday and during the hours and times as\npermitted by local ordinance of the legislative body of a city, urban -county\ngovernment, consolid ated local government, charter county government,\nunified local government, or the county with local jurisdiction. These\nordinances shall not prohibit the sale, gift, or delivery of distilled spirits or\nwine between 6 a.m. and 12 midnight any day, except Sunday.\n(b) A licensee authorized to sell distilled spirits and wine by the drink at retail\nmay sell distilled spirits and wine by the drink on Sunday and during the times\nand hours as permitted by a local ordinance of the legislative body of an\nurban-county government, consolidated local government, charter county\ngovernment, unified local government, city, or county with local jurisdiction.\nThe ordinance shall not prohibit the sale or gift of distilled spirits and wine by\nthe drink between 6 a.m. and midnight during any day, except Sunday.\n(5) In any territory containing a licensed small farm winery that is permitted to sell\nalcoholic beverages under KRS Chapter 242, the sale of alcoholic beverages at the\nsmall farm winery on Sunday may be permitted if:\n(a) The legislative body of the local government having jurisdiction approves by\nlocal ordinance the sale of alcoholic beverages on Sunday in strict accordance\nwith the sales permitted by KRS 243.155 on the licensed premises of a small\nfarm winery during the hours and times as permitted in the local ordinance; or\n(b) A limited sale precinct election on the issue of Sunday sales is approved after\nmeeting the requirements of KRS 242.1241.\n(6) In any county containing a city of the first class or in any city loca ted in that county\nin which the sale of distilled spirits and wine is permitted under KRS Chapter 242,\nthe distilled spirits administrator may issue a license to holders of a quota retail\ndrink license or a special private club license that permits the sal e of distilled spirits\nand wine by the drink on Sunday from 1 p.m. until the prevailing time for that\nlocality.","path":["KRS Chapter 244"],"source_url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=56502","current_through":"Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"09/05/2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T20:52:55Z","sha256":"4f98ae678046e6b54fec898b87b007b773450d2f6bd215d13c733a7b3a79b472","source_id":"us-ky","stale":false,"prev":"us-ky/krs-244.280","next":"us-ky/krs-244.295"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}