behavior.
(1) A retail licensee, a patron, or the licensee's agents, servants, or employees shall not
cause, suffer, or permit the licensed premises to be disorderly.
(2) Acts which constitute disorderly premises consist of causing, suffering, or
permitting patrons, the licensee, or the licensee's servants, agents, or employees to
cause public inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm, or create a risk through:
(a) Engaging in fighting or in violent, tumultuous, or threatening behavior;
(b) Making unreasonable noise;
(c) Refusing to obey an official order to disperse issued to maintain public safety
in dangerous proximity to a fire, hazard, or other emergency;
(d) Creating a hazardous or physically offensive condition by any act that serves
no legitimate purpose;
(e) Creating a public nuisance;
(f) Engaging in criminal activity that would constitute a capital offense, felony, or
misdemeanor; or
(g) Failing to maintain the minimum health, fire, safety, or sanitary standards
established by the state or a local government, or by state administrative
regulations, for the licensed premises.
Effective: June 25, 2013
History: Amended 2013 Ky. Acts ch. 121, sec. 85, effective June 25, 2013. -- Amended
1978 Ky. Acts ch. 194, sec. 20, effective June 17, 1978. -- Repealed in part 1944 Ky.
Acts ch. 154, sec. 25; and ch. 173, sec. 15. -- Amended 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 168, secs.
8 and 17. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942,
from Ky. Stat. secs. 2554b-180, 3490-14.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in
15
cases (
2 in the last 5 years), 1943–2026 · leading case:
Hale v. Moore, 289 S.W.3d 567 (Ky. Ct. App. 2008).
Hale v. Moore, 289 S.W.3d 567 (Ky. Ct. App. 2008).
· cites it 2× “A few months later, on June 30, 2005, the Shelby Circuit Court vacated the March 18, 2005, opinion and concluded it did not, in fact, have subject matter jurisdiction because KRS 244.120 vests exclusive jurisdiction of probate matters in the district court.”
Mannini v. McFarland, 172 S.W.2d 631 (Ky. Ct. App. 1943).
· cites it 3× “It is the contention of the appellant that so much of KRS 244.120 as purports to prohibit the sale of alcoholic beverages in a poolroom or bowling alley is void as being special or local legislation in violation of sections 59 and 60 of our Constitution because it is applicable…”
Howard v. Kentucky Alcoholic Beverage Control Bd., 172 S.W.2d 46 (Ky. Ct. App. 1943).
· cites it 2× “On November 20, and 21, 1942, you violated section 244.120 of the Kentucky Revised Statutes by causing or permitting disorderly conduct on your licensed premises.”
Alcoholic Beverage Control Bd. v. Coghill, 273 S.W.2d 570 (Ky. Ct. App. 1954).
“On the basis of this testimony the Board charged Coghill “with permitting the licensed premises to be disorderly, and permitting gambling thereon” denounced by KRS 244.120 and 243.500(7) respectively. Coghill offered no evidence but contented himself with the failure of the…”
Jacobs v. Alcoholic Beverage Control Bd., 299 S.W.2d 613 (Ky. Ct. App. 1957).
“The alleged improper acts were: (1) Permitting the licensed premises to be disorderly, in violation of KRS 244.120; (2) selling alcoholic beverages to persons under the influence of alcoholic beverages, in violation of KRS 244.”
Ni-Be, Inc. v. Moberly, 425 S.W.2d 567 (Ky. Ct. App. 1968).
· cites it 5× “Before ruling ABC again cited Ni-Be to show cause why its licenses should not be revoked or suspended for violating KRS 244.120 in that it permitted the licensed premises to be disorderly.”
Lewis v. Ken-Pad, Inc., 716 S.W.2d 252 (Ky. 1986).
· cites it 4× “The Board found that management knew or should have known of this activity, all of which violated KRS 244.120 and 804 KAR 5:060. The Court of Appeals determined that the record clearly established solicitation for sexual conduct on the premises of Ken-Pad and that this activity…”
Cooperrider v. Woods (E.D. Ky. 2023).
· cites it 5× “The enforcement began with an emergency order suspending Brewed’s alcohol license and rested on two grounds: violation of Governor Beshear’s executive orders relating to COVID and disorderly conduct under KRS 244.120. Id. at 5; [R. 23-3 at 1-2.] Responding to Governor Beshear’s…”
Barker v. State Alcoholic Beverage Control Bd., 192 S.W.2d 726 (Ky. Ct. App. 1946).
· cites it 4× “On August 3,1945 you violated Section 244.120, Kentucky Revised Statutes, 1944, by allowing your place of business at the above address licensed to sell beer, to become disorderly in that you allowed disorderly characters to congregate, in same and that by doing so a soldier in…”
Shearer v. Bulleit, 257 S.W.2d 903 (Ky. Ct. App. 1953).
“080 and the second alleging that appellee permitted his licensed premises to become disorderly in violation of KRS 244.120. At a hearing on May 27,1952, the charges were duly heard and the first one was dismissed by the Board but appellee was found guilty on the second one and…”
Cooperrider (E.D. Ky. 2026).
“§ 244.120. Id.; [R. 23-3 at 1-2.] The state legislature later passed legislation curtailing Beshear’s power.”
— Ky. Rev. Stat. § 244.120(1) — 1 case
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