(1) The number of quota retail package licenses issued by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to licensees in counties containing cities of the first class, and including such cities, shall not exceed a number equal to one (1) for every one thousand five hundred (1,500) persons resident in such county.
(2) In order that a fixed and approved standard of population as prescribed in subsection (1) of this section may be adopted, the annual estimates of population as determined by the Kentucky State Data Center at the University of Louisville shall be used in every year except a census year, and during a census year the United States government census figures of population shall be controlling.