SECTION PERTAINING TO LIQUOR BY THE DRINK IN RESTAURANTS
In order to promote economic development and tourism, other provisions of the Kentucky Revised Statues notwithstanding, a city or county in which prohibition is in effect may, by petition in accordance with KRS 242.020, hold a local option election on the sale of alcoholic beverages by the drink at restaurants and dining facilities which seat a minimum of one hundred (100) persons and derive a minimum of seventy percent (70%) if their gross receipts from the sale of food. The election shall be held in accordance with KRS 242,030 (1), (2), and (5), 242.040 , 242.060 to 242.120, and the proposition on the ballot shall state "Are you in favor of the sale of alcoholic beverages by the drink in (name of city or county) at restaurants and dining facilities with a seating capacity of at least one hundred (100) persons and which derive at leasty seventy percent (70%) of their gross receipts from the sale of food?" If the majority of the votes in an election held pursuant to this subsection are "Yes", licenses may be issued to qualified restaurants and dining facilities and the licensees may be regulated and taxed in accordance with subsection (4) and (5) of this section.
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