Repeat impaired-driving convictions would limit alcohol purchases

A person with a fourth or later conviction under Section 1 would be prohibited from buying alcohol. This applies to a fourth or later conviction for operating or controlling a vehicle under the listed alcohol or drug-related offenses. The restriction would apply during the person's driver's-license suspension and for two years afterward. An ignition-interlock or hardship license would have to say “No Alcohol Sale” and show other identifying security features, including a prominent red stripe. Any operator's license issued to the person would have to carry the same warning and security features. The alcohol-purchase restriction applies during the license-suspension period and for two years after it; the license-marking rules apply when the covered license is issued.

A person convicted of a covered offense causing a victim's death through impaired driving would be prohibited from buying alcohol, and the court would have to record the finding and send license information to the Transportation Cabinet. This covers offenses under Chapter 507 in which the victim died because the defendant operated a vehicle under the influence of alcohol, a controlled substance, or another substance listed in Section 1. The alcohol-purchase ban would last through probation, parole, conditional discharge, or another early-release period, plus two years afterward. The court would have to order the person to surrender the driver's license and could direct an officer to seize it if the person does not surrender it. The person's operator's license would have to display “No Alcohol Sale” and identifying features, including a prominent red stripe. The restriction begins during the covered supervision or early-release period and continues for two years after that period ends.

Alcohol retailers and their workers would not be allowed to knowingly sell, give, deliver, or arrange alcohol for a person covered by either prohibition. The rule covers people barred from buying alcohol after a fourth or later Section 1 conviction or after a covered fatal-driving conviction. The restriction applies when the retailer or worker knowingly takes the prohibited action. It covers selling, giving away, delivering, possessing, or allowing alcohol to be sold or delivered to the barred person. The sales restriction applies while the person remains prohibited from purchasing alcohol under either covered conviction.