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The alcohol laws of Kentucky, which govern the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages in that state, lead to a patchwork of counties that are either dry (prohibiting all sale of alcoholic beverage), or wet (permitting full retail sales under state license), or "moist" (occupying a middle ground between the two).
Of the 26 "dry" counties, 23 have at least one "wet" city; these are considered "moist" dry counties. Within those 23 counties there are 43 wet cities. State law allows any city with a population greater than 1,000 located within a dry county to "go wet" if a referendum is passed by 50% of voters.
That said, there are some limited exceptions, which are also laid out in state law. Kentucky Revised Statute 243.115, for example, permits restaurants licensed under the state’s liquor laws to ...
Four grocery chain stores in the county have grandfathered alcohol licenses. [34] The regulatory agency is Montgomery County Alcohol Beverage Services (ABS). Dorchester County was an alcohol control county until 2008, when the County Council voted to permanently close the county-owned liquor dispensaries, with subsequent change in the state law ...
Tennessee law limiting packaged alcohol sales outside the city dates back to the repeal of Prohibition - and it isn't likely to change soon.
Local bans on alcohol sales have been the norm for decades in Kentucky until only recently. As of 2011, more than a third of the state’s 120 counties remained legally dry .
Most of these limits remained constant until the early 1970s. From 1969 to 1976, some 30 states lowered their purchase ages, generally to 18. This was primarily because the voting age was lowered from 21 to 18 in 1971 with the passing into law of the 26th amendment. Many states started to lower their minimum purchase age in response, most of ...
But no establishment can serve or sell any alcohol between 4:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. on Sunday mornings. As marijuana becomes more widely legalized, similar differences may begin to appear.