Kentucky Revised Statutes

Ky. Rev. Stat. § 243.030 (2026)

Distilled spirits and wine and cannabis-infused beverages licenses -- Kinds

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-- Fees. The following licenses that authorize traffic in distilled spirits and wine and in cannabis- infused beverages may be issued by the distilled spirits administrator. Licenses that authorize traffic in all alcoholic beverages may be issued by both the distilled spirits administrator and malt beverages administrator. The licenses and their accompanying fees are as follows:

(1) Distiller's license:

(a) Class A, per annum .............................................................................$3,090.00

(b) Class B (craft distillery), per annum ....................................................$1,000.00

(2) Rectifier's license:

(a) Class A, per annum .............................................................................$2,580.00

(b) Class B (craft rectifier), per annum ........................................................$825.00

(3) Winery license, per annum ..........................................................................$1,030.00

(4) Small farm winery license, per annum ...........................................................$110.00

(a) Small farm winery off-premises retail license, per annum ......................$30.00

(5) Wholesaler's license, per annum ..................................................................$2,060.00

(6) Quota retail package license, per annum .........................................................$570.00

(7) Quota retail drink license, per annum ..............................................................$620.00

(8) Transporter's license, per annum ....................................................................$210.00

(9) Special nonbeverage alcohol license, per annum .............................................$60.00

(10) Special agent's or solicitor's license, per annum ...............................................$30.00

(11) Bottling house or bottling house storage license, per annum ......... .............$1,030.00

(12) Special temporary license, per event ..............................................................$100.00

(13) Special Sunday retail drink license, per annum ...............................................$520.00

(14) Caterer's license, per annum ...........................................................................$830.00

(15) Special temporary alcoholic beverage auction license, per event ...................$100.00

(16) Extended hours supplemental license, per annum .......................................$2,060.00

(17) Hotel in-room license, per annum ...................................................................$210.00

(18) Air transporter license, per annum ..................................................................$520.00

(19) Sampling license, per annum ...........................................................................$110.00

(20) Replacement or duplicate license ......................................................................$25.00

(21) Entertainment destination center license:

(a) When the licensee is a city, county, urban-county government, consolidated local government, charter county government, or unified local government, per annum .................................................$2,577.00

(b) All other licensees, per annum ............................................................$7,730.00

(22) Limited restaurant license, per annum .............................................................$780.00

(23) Limited golf course license, per annum ...........................................................$720.00

(24) Small farm winery wholesaler's license, per annum .......................................$110.00

(25) Qualified historic site license, per annum ....................................................$1,030.00

(26) Nonquota type 1 license, per annum ........................ ...................................$4,120.00

(27) Nonquota type 2 license, per annum ................................................................$830.00

(28) Nonquota type 3 license, per annum ................................................................$310.00

(29) Distilled spirits and wine storage license, per annum ..................................$620.00

(30) Out-of-state distilled spirits and wine supplier's license, per annum ...........$1,550.00

(31) Limited out-of-state distilled spirits and wine supplier's license, per annum ..........................................................................................$260.00

(32) Authorized public consumption license, per annum ........................................$250.00

(33) Direct shipper Type A license, per annum.......................................................$100.00

(34) Limited nonquota package license, per annum ................................................$300.00

(35) Vintage distilled spirits license, per annum .....................................................$300.00

(36) Cannabis-infused beverage retail package license, per annum .....................$2,000.00

(37) Cannabis-infused beverage distributor's license, per annum ........................$1,000.00

(38) Cannabis-infused beverage distributor's license, supplemental, per annum ..............................................................................$1,000.00

(39) Direct shipper Type B license, per annum ....................................................$1,000.00

(40) A nonrefundable fee of sixty dollars ($60) shall be charged to process each new transitional license pursuant to KRS 243.045.

(41) Other special licenses the board finds necessary for the proper regulation and control of the traffic in distilled spirits and wine and provides for by administrative regulation. In establishing the amount of license taxes that are required to be fixed by the board, it shall have regard for the value of the privilege granted.

(42) The fee for each of the first five (5) supplemental bar licenses shall be the same as the fee for the primary retail drink license. There shall be no charge for each supplemental license issued in excess of five (5) to the same licensee at the same premises. A nonrefundable application fee of fifty dollars ($50) shall be charged to process each new application under this section, except for subsections (4), (8), (9), (10), (12), (15), (19), and (20) of this section. The application fee shall be applied to the licensing fee if the license is issued; otherwise it shall be retained by the department. Effective: June 27, 2025 History: Amended 2025 Ky. Acts ch. 82, sec. 12, effective March 25, 2025; and ch. 98, sec. 32, effective June 27, 2025. -- Amended 2024 Ky. Acts ch. 46, sec. 7, effective April 4, 2024. -- Amended 2022 Ky. Acts ch. 39, sec. 5, effective March 29, 2022. -- Amended 2020 Ky. Acts ch. 80, sec. 5, effective July 15, 2020. -- Amended 2018 Ky. Acts ch. 21, sec. 1, effective July 14, 2018. -- Amended 2017 Ky. Acts ch. 62, sec. 31, effective June 29, 2017. -- Amended 2016 Ky. Acts ch. 80, sec. 4, effective July 15, 2016. -- Amended 2014 Ky. Acts ch. 22, sec. 3, effective July 15, 2014. -- Amended 2013 Ky. Acts ch. 121, sec. 45, effective June 25, 2013. -- Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 562, effective July 15, 2010. -- Amended 2007 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 3, effective June 26, 2007. -- Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 179, sec. 7, effective January 1, 2007; and ch. 79, sec. 2, effective July 12, 2006. -- Amended 2004 Ky. Acts ch. 20, sec. 4, effective July 13, 2004. -- Amended 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 346, sec. 217, effective July 15, 2002. -- Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 69, sec. 2, effective March 6, 2000; ch. 182, sec. 1, effective July 14, 2000; and ch. 435, sec. 8, effective July 14, 2000. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 518, sec. 1, effective April 13, 1998. -- Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 44, sec. 3, effective July 15, 1996; and ch. 95, sec. 3, effective July 15, 1996. -- Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 196, sec. 2, July 14, 1992. -- Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 54, sec. 3, effective July 13, 1990; and ch. 219, sec. 2, effective July 13, 1990. -- Amended 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 395, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1980. -- Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 194, sec. 10, effective June 17, 1978; and ch. 432, sec. 2, effective June 17, 1978. -- Amended 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 381, sec. 3. -- Amended 1972 Ky. Acts ch. 335, sec. 1. -- Amended Ky. Acts ch. 1948 Ky. Acts ch. 101, sec. 1. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 2554b-114, 2554b-126, 2554b-127. Legislative Research Commission Note (6/27/2025). This statute was amended by 2025 Ky. Acts chs. 82 and 98. Where these Acts are not in conflict, they have been codified together. Where a conflict exists, Acts ch. 98, which was last enacted by the General Assembly, prevails under KRS 446.250.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 18 cases, 1944–2012 · leading case: Cherry Hill Vineyards, LLC v. Hudgins, 488 F. Supp. 2d 601 (W.D. Ky. 2006).

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Cherry Hill Vineyards, LLC v. Hudgins, 488 F. Supp. 2d 601 (W.D. Ky. 2006). · cites it 7× “110 provides that, with certain exceptions not applicable to small farm wineries, each kind of license listed in KRS 243.030 is incompatible with every other kind so listed, and that no person or entity holding one kind may apply for or hold a license of another kind under that…”

Jackson v. Tullar, 285 S.W.3d 290 (Ky. Ct. App. 2007). “(2) Any other law to the contrary notwithstanding, no person holding a permit under KRS 243.030, 243.040, 243.050, nor any agent, servant, or employee of the person, who sells or serves intoxicating beverages to a person over the age for the lawful purchase thereof, shall be…”

Fort Mitchell Country Club v. Lamarre, 394 S.W.3d 897 (Ky. 2012). · cites it 4× “270 and KRS 243.030, which only permits the distribution of retail alcoholic drinks.”

Carruthers v. Edwards, 395 S.W.3d 488 (Ky. Ct. App. 2012). “(2) [N]o person holding a permit under KRS 243.030, 243.040, 243.050, nor any agent, servant, or employee of the person, who'sells or serves intoxicating beverages to a person over the age for the lawful purchase thereof, shall be liable to that person or to any other person .”

Taylor v. King, 345 S.W.3d 237 (Ky. Ct. App. 2010). “(2) Any other law to the contrary notwithstanding, no person holding a permit under KRS 243.030, 243.040, 243.050, nor any agent, servant, or employee of the person, who sells or serves intoxicating beverages to a person over the age for the lawful purchase thereof, shall be…”

Kentucky Alcoholic Beverage Control Bd. v. Anheuser-Busch, Inc., 574 S.W.2d 344 (Ky. Ct. App. 1978). · cites it 3× “110(1) expressly provides that each kind of license issued under KRS 243.030 is incompatible with every other license listed in that section.”

Whitehead v. Est. of Ray Bravard, 719 S.W.2d 720 (Ky. 1986). “Only such licenses may be issued as correspond, in their provisions and the business authorized, to the licenses provided for in subsections (1), (2), (3), (6), (7), (8), (16), (17), (18) and (19) of KRS 243.030 and subsections (1), (2), (3) and (6) of KRS 243.”

Sixty-Eight Liquors, Inc. v. Colvin, 118 S.W.3d 171 (Ky. 2003). “(2) Any other law to the contrary notwithstanding, no person holding a permit under KRS 243.030, 243.040, 243.050, nor any agent, servant, or employee of the person, who sells or serves intoxicating beverages to a person over the age for the lawful purchase thereof, shall be…”

George Wiedemann Brewing Co. v. City of Newport, 321 S.W.2d 404 (Ky. Ct. App. 1959). · cites it 2× “Only such licenses may be issued as correspond, in their provisions and the business authorized, to the licenses provided for in subsections (1), (2), (3), (5), (6), (7), (15) and (16) of KRS 243.030 and subsections (1), (2), (3) and (6) of KRS 243.”

Henry v. Commonwealth, 228 S.W.2d 32 (Ky. Ct. App. 1950). “” Taken out of its context, this is an absolute prohibition to possess the described quantity beverages anywhere except upon licensed premises of a licensee for the carrying on of the business of manufacturing, transporting or dealing in alcoholic beverages.”

Deckert v. Levy, 213 S.W.2d 431 (Ky. Ct. App. 1948). “KRS 243.030, 243.040. In the absence of regulations, there is nothing to guide or control the Administrators in this function.”

City of Newport v. Tye, 335 S.W.2d 340 (Ky. Ct. App. 1960). “This statute provides “only such licenses may be issued as correspond, in their provisions and the business authorized, to the licenses provided for” in certain subsections of KRS 243.030 and 243.040. These statutes provide in this category for a “retail drink license.”

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— Ky. Rev. Stat. § 243.030(4) — 1 case

Cherry Hill Vineyards, LLC v. Hudgins, 488 F. Supp. 2d 601 (W.D. Ky. 2006). “110 provides that, with certain exceptions not applicable to small farm wineries, each kind of license listed in KRS 243.030 is incompatible with every other kind so listed, and that no person or entity holding one kind may apply for or hold a license of another kind under that…”

— Ky. Rev. Stat. § 243.030(43) — 1 case

— Ky. Rev. Stat. § 243.030(6) — 1 case

Ni-Be, Inc. v. Moberly, 425 S.W.2d 567 (Ky. Ct. App. 1968).

— Ky. Rev. Stat. § 243.030(7) — 1 case

City of Ashland v. Kentucky Alcoholic Beverage Control Bd., 982 S.W.2d 210 (Ky. Ct. App. 1998).

— Ky. Rev. Stat. § 243.030(8) — 1 case

City of Ashland v. Kentucky Alcoholic Beverage Control Bd., 982 S.W.2d 210 (Ky. Ct. App. 1998).

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