244.090 Persons whom licensees may not employ -- Partial exception. (1) A person holding any license shall not knowingly employ in connection with the licensed business any person who: (a) Has been convicted of any felony within the last two (2) years; (b) Has been twice convicted of any misdemeanor or offense directly or indirectly attributable to the use of alcoholic beverages within the last two (2) years; Is under the age of twenty (20) years, unless the person is employed: 1

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In a bottling house or room of a licensed distiller, winery, brewer, or rectifier; In an office of a wholesaler or manufacturer that is maintained in a building separate from the warehouses or factory; At premises licensed only with a nonquota retail malt beverage package license, and the person employed to sell malt beverages is at least eighteen (18) years of age and under the supervision of a person twenty (20) years of age or older; or In any of the following establishments, if the employment is in a capacity that does not involve the sale or serving of alcoholic beverages: a

of its food A restaurant that derives at least fifty percent (50) and alcoholic beverage sales from the sale of food for consumption on the licensed premises; or Any other establishment with alcoholic beverage sales not exceeding fifty percent (50) of its gross sales; or b

(d) Within two (2) years prior to the date of the person's employment, has had any license issued under KRS Chapters 241 to 244 or under any other act or ordinance relating to the regulation of the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages revoked for cause

(2) The provisions of paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (1) of this section shall not apply if the employee's duties do not involve the sale, service, delivery, or traffic in alcoholic beverages at the licensed premises

(3) Violation of this section shall subject both employer and employee to penalties provided in this chapter and shall be cause for revocation of license

Effective:June 29, 2017 History: Amended 2017 Ky. Acts ch. 62, sec. 93, effective June 29, 2017. -- Amended 2013 Ky. Acts ch. 121, sec. 84, effective June 25, 2013. -- Amended 2012 Ky. Acts ch. 125, sec. 7, effective July 12, 2012. -- Amended 2000 Ky

Acts ch. 435, sec. 15, effective July 14, 2000. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch

522, sec. 20, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 467, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1994. -- Amended 1988 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1988. -- Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 194, sec. 19, effective June 17, 1978. -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 389, sec. 2. -- Amended 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 168, secs. 6 and 15. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 2554b-155