(1) When a majority of the votes cast at a local option election are in favor of establishing dry territory, the territory shall be dry at the expiration of sixty (60) days from the date of the entry of the certificate of the county board of election commissioners in the order book of the county judge/executive.
(2) Upon the annexation of any local option territory by a city, either before July 15,
1980, or subsequent thereto, the annexed territory shall assume the same local option status as the local option status of the annexing city. Nothing in this section shall impair the right of any precinct in the annexed territory to determine its own status with respect to the legal sales of alcoholic beverages in accordance with the provisions of KRS Chapter 242.
Effective: June 25, 2013
History: Amended 2013 Ky. Acts ch. 121, sec. 20, effective June 25, 2013. — Amended
1980 Ky. Acts ch. 92, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1980. — Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch.
384, sec. 380, effective June 17, 1978. — Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 2554c-15.