Editing Greenup County, Kentucky (section)

==Alcohol sales==
Greenup County is a moist county, meaning that sale of alcohol in the county is prohibited except in certain areas as voted on by the residents of the area, including at least one area where full retail sales are permitted. In the case of Greenup County, alcohol sales are permitted in the following areas:
* The city of Russell has allowed the full retail sale of alcohol since 2014 after allowing, since 2008, by the drink alcohol sales at restaurants which seat at least 100 diners and derive at least 70% of their total sales from food.<ref>[https://www.dailyindependent.com/news/russell-goes-wet-for-packaged-sales/article_6c077b2c-4384-11e4-afd0-9f13abde0a56.html Russell goes wet for packaged sales.]</ref>
*The cities of Greenup, Raceland and South Shore allow full retail sale of alcohol after voters approved local option petitions in 2020.<ref>[https://www.portsmouth-dailytimes.com/news/50458/three-greenup-co-cities-vote-yes-for-alcohol-sales Three Greenup Co. cities vote yes for alcohol sales.]</ref>
*The city of Flatwoods allows full retail sale of alcohol after voters approved a local option petition in 2024.<ref>[https://www.wsaz.com/2024/05/21/flatwoods-voters-approve-alcohol-sales/ Flatwoods voters approve alcohol sales.]</ref>
* The city of Bellefonte has allowed the full retail sale of alcohol since 2017 after allowing, since 2009, the Bellefonte Country Club to sell alcohol by the drink under a provision that allows voters of an otherwise dry precinct to allow alcohol sales at a specific, voter approved, [[United States Golf Association|USGA]] regulation [[golf course]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://abc.ky.gov/documents/Wet-DryMap02-20.pdf |title=Wet and Dry Counties in Kentucky as of 2/2020 |access-date=December 18, 2020 |archive-date=January 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210123165041/https://abc.ky.gov/documents/Wet-DryMap02-20.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> The status change had no practical effect within the city itself as restaurants (other than the Bellefonte Country Club), liquor stores, gas stations, grocery stores and other businesses that generally sell alcohol are, by local ordinance, prohibited within the city limits of Bellefonte. The change in status allowed the Bellefonte Country Club to receive a "caterer's license" to serve alcohol by the drink at private offsite events, which was not permitted under the previous alcohol status.<ref>[http://www.dailyindependent.com/news/bellefonte-to-consider-wet-vote/article_e2170f42-28a3-11e7-a095-37ac74541856.html Bellefonte to consider wet vote.]</ref>
*The Hunnewell election precinct in unincorporated Greenup County approved a petition in 2020 allowing the River Bend Golf Course to sell alcohol by the drink under a provision that allows voters of an otherwise dry precinct to allow alcohol sales at a specific, voter approved, USGA regulation golf course.<ref>[https://www.portsmouth-dailytimes.com/news/50458/three-greenup-co-cities-vote-yes-for-alcohol-sales Three Greenup Co. cities vote yes for alcohol sales].</ref>

The sale of alcohol is prohibited in the cities of Worthington, Wurtland and in all areas of unincorporated Greenup County outside the River Bend Golf Course.