Kentucky Statutes 244.120 – Retail premises not to be disorderly — Acts constituting disorderly behavior
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(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 — Repealed in part 1944 Ky.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.
(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:
Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 244.120
- Capital offense: A crime punishable by death.
- State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
(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.