Kentucky Revised Statutes

Ky. Rev. Stat. § 241.080 (2026)

Powers of distilled spirits administrator and malt beverages administrator

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as to issuance of licenses. The distilled spirits administrator may approve and issue or deny any state license authorizing traffic in distilled spirits and wine or in cannabis-infused beverages. The malt beverages administrator may approve and issue or deny any state license authorizing traffic in malt beverages. Both the distilled spirits administrator and the malt beverages administrator may approve and issue or deny state licenses authorizing the traffic in alcoholic beverages. Effective: March 25, 2025 History: Amended 2025 Ky. Acts ch. 82, sec. 4, effective March 25, 2025. -- Amended 2017 Ky. Acts ch. 62, sec. 6, effective June 29, 2017. -- Repealed in part 1944 Ky. Acts ch. 154, sec. 8. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 2554b-102. Legislative Research Commission Note (6/20/2005). 2005 Ky. Acts chs. 11, 85, 95, 97, 98, 99, 123, and 181 instruct the Reviser of Statutes to correct statutory references to agencies and officers whose names have been changed in 2005 legislation confirming the reorganization of the executive branch. Such a correction has been made in this section.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1984–2025 · leading case: Applicants for Retail Package Liquor Licenses in Floyd Cnty. v. Gulley, 674 S.W.2d 22 (Ky. Ct. App. 1984).
Applicants for Retail Package Liquor Licenses in Floyd Cnty. v. Gulley, 674 S.W.2d 22 (Ky. Ct. App. 1984). “The Administrator, who by authority of KRS 241.080 has the power to issue the licenses and whose office is under the Board, reviewed the applications and ordered a field investigation on both the applicants and the proposed premises.”
Victory Global, LLC v. Fresh Bourbon, LLC (E.D. Ky. 2025). · cites it 2× “21 (a); Ky. Rev. Stat. § 241.080. Fresh Bourbon does not dispute this.”
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