Examples
In Kentucky, the term can be used in two different senses:
- Two different statutes allow any dry territory—which can be a dry county or a city located in a dry county—to vote to authorize limited sales of alcoholic beverages by the drink in restaurants. Both statutes require that restaurants make at least 70% of their money from food (rather than alcohol) sales. One statute requires that the restaurant seat at least 100 patrons. The other, signed into law in June 2007, requires only 50 seats, but prohibits licensed establishments from having a dedicated bar and requires that the drinks be sold in association with a meal. Once a jurisdiction votes for such sales, qualifying restaurants can apply for a permit, which are distributed on a somewhat limited basis. For example, the Louisville suburban jurisdiction of Oldham County voted to allow such sales in the early 2000s (its county seat of La Grange later approved full package sales in 2012). Note, however, that Kentucky's Office of Alcoholic Beverage Control does not use the term "moist county" to describe a county in which such sales are allowed, calling it instead a "limited" county.
- Officially, a "moist county" is an otherwise dry county in which a city has voted to allow full retail sales of alcoholic beverages. The following Kentucky counties fall in this category:
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Dry county Wet city or cities Boyd Ashland Boyle Danville Junction City Caldwell Princeton Calloway Murray Clay Manchester Garrard Lancaster Hardin Elizabethtown Radcliff Vine Grove Harlan Cumberland Henry Eminence Hopkins Dawson Springs Earlington Madisonville Jessamine Nicholasville Johnson Paintsville Knox Corbin Letcher Whitesburg Lewis Vanceburg Logan Russellville Madison Richmond Muhlenberg Central City Montgomery Mount Sterling Oldham La Grange Pendleton Falmouth Pike Pikeville Pulaski Somerset Rowan Morehead Scott Georgetown Shelby Shelbyville Simpson Franklin Todd Guthrie Warren Bowling Green Washington Springfield Whitley Corbin
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Note that once a city votes itself fully wet, state law mandates a 60-day period, starting on the date that the election results are certified, before vendors can apply for licenses to sell distilled spirits and wine. At the end of that period, the state will then advertise in that city's newspaper of record to announce the number of licenses that will be granted. However, beer licenses are not subject to quotas, and can be applied for once the city enacts a governing ordinance. The most recent city to vote itself wet is Princeton, which voted on August 7, 2012. Results are typically certified in less than a week; for example, the results of Murray's local option election on July 17, 2012 were certified two days later.
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