Friday, February 25, 2000
Speedway getting green light on liquor
Bill allowing sales on Sunday OK'd
BY PATRICK CROWLEY
The Cincinnati Enquirer
FRANKFORT — The General Assembly has given the checkered flag to legislation that would allow the $100 million Kentucky Speedway being built in Gallatin County to sell alcohol seven days a week.
The bill easily passed the Senate on Thursday by a vote of 28-8 with all Northern Kentucky senators voting in favor: Katie Stine, R-Fort Thomas; Jack Westwood, R-Erlanger; Ernie Harris, R-Crestwood; and Senate President Pro Tem Dick Roeding, R-Lakeside Park, who carried the bill on the Senate floor.
“This is a good bill for economic development in Northern Kentucky and really the whole state because it will help bring people to the racetrack and the area,” Mr. Roeding said.
The bill had previously passed the House, 66-22. It now goes to Gov. Paul Patton, who is expected to sign it into law.
Bills the governor signs be come law in Kentucky on July 1. But because the speedway is scheduled to hold its first race June 17, the bill has an emergency clause that will make it law as soon as it is signed by Mr. Patton.
Gallatin County is not dry, but it does have laws restricting the sale of alcohol:
• Beer and wine are sold by the drink in restaurants; beer is sold in bars, but no liquor is sold by the drink.
• Packaged liquor, also known as bottled liquor, is sold in liquor stores licensed by the state.
• No alcohol is sold on Sundays.
House Bill 463 — co-sponsored by House Majority Caucus Chairman Jim Callahan, D-Wilder, and Rep. Paul Marcotte, R-Union — creates a supplemental liquor license for automobile racetracks.
The license would allow alcohol by the drink to be sold seven days a week at the track. Sunday sales could occur only after 1 p.m.
The supplemental license sought by the track, which is being developed by former Turfway Park racetrack owner Jerry Carroll of Fort Mitchell, already exists in Kentucky for convention centers, horse tracks and large airports.
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