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Code of Adams
Title 8 Alcoholic Beverages
Chapter 2 Beer
Title 8 Alcoholic Beverages
Chapter 2 Beer
Adams
Title 8 : Alcoholic Beverages
Chapter 2 : Beer
8-211 : Prohibited conduct or activities by beer permit holders.
- It shall be unlawful for any beer permit holder to:
- Employ any person convicted for the possession, sale, manufacture, or transportation of intoxicating liquor or any crime involving moral turpitude within the past ten (10) years;
- Employ any minor under twenty-one (21) years of age in the sale, storage, distribution or manufacture of beer;
- Make or allow any sale of beer on Sunday except between the hours of 12:00 P.M. and 10:00 P.M.; or anytime except between 5:00 A.M. to 10:00 P.M. on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday;
- Allow any loud, unusual or obnoxious noises to emanate from his premises;
- Make or allow any sale of beer to a minor under twenty-one (21) years of age;
- Allow any minor under twenty-one (21) years of age to loiter in or about his place of business;
- Allow drunk or disreputable persons to loiter about his premises;
- Serve, sell or allow the consumption on his premises of any alcoholic beverage with an alcoholic content of more than that defined in Tennessee Code Annotated, § 57-5-101;
- Allow gambling on his premises;
- Allow dancing on his premises;
- Allow pool or billiard playing in the same room where beer is sold and/or consumed; and/or
- Fail to provide and maintain separate sanitary toilet facilities for man and women.
- Beer shall not be consumed on the premises of the dispenser, in motor vehicles nor on public property in the City of Adams, Tennessee.
- Beer in containers larger than one (1) liter shall not be stored or sold within the City of Adams, Tennessee.
- Only signs lettered on the windows of the premises of the licensed dispenser shall be allowed.
- No signs advertising the sale of beer shall be legal within the City of Adams.
- In no event will a permit be issued authorizing the storage, sale, or manufacture of beer at places within five hundred feet (500') of any school, church, or other such place of public gathering, measured along street rights-of-way. (1964 Code, § 2-212, as amended by Ord. #38, Oct. 1982, Ord. #2004-01, June 2004, and Ord. #2007-05, July 2007, modified)
Date Last Updated: 05/01/2020
Codification Date: 05/01/2020
Officials at Date of Last Codification:
Mayor - Mary Mantooth
Vice Mayor - Wayne Evans
Commissioner - Donna Boisseau
Recorder - Anna Luke
City Attorney - Jody Dorris