Legal Documents of Jefferson City

Before any person, firm, corporation, joint-stock company, syndicate, or association shall be authorized to sell, store, and/or manufacture such beer and/or beverages as prescribed herein, he shall apply to the beer board and shall establish:

1. The name, age, and address of the applicant and all of the persons having an interest in the business, and shall give an apt description which definitely locates the proposed place of business.
2. That no such beverage will be sold in a congested area; within three hundred (300) feet of a school; within one hundred fifty (150) feet of a church or other place of public gathering; closer than sixty (60) feet to a residence; or where such sale shall interfere with the public health, safety, and morals. Measurements shall be actual "walk off" measurements and shall not be determined by GIS measurements.
3. That no sale shall be made to persons under twenty-one (21) years of age. (Tennessee Code Annotated, § 57-4-105.)
4. That neither the applicant nor any persons employed by him in such distribution or sale shall be a person who has been convicted of any violation of the laws against possession, sale, manufacture, or transportation of intoxicating liquor or any crime involving moral turpitude within the past ten (10) years.

The application shall distinctly state whether the person so applying will conduct the business in person, or whether he is acting as agent for any other person, firm, corporation, syndicate, association, or joint-stock company, and any person making false statement in said application shall forfeit his permit and shall not be eligible to receive any permit for a period of ten (10) years.

Any applicant for a permit to see beer pursuant to this chapter shall be liable for the payment of the cost of any survey necessary to determine if the applicant meets the footage requirements of this chapter. Upon request of the Jefferson City Beer Board, an applicant shall submit a certified copy of a survey showing the applicant's distance from the nearest school, church, place or public, gathering, or residence as measured in a straight line from the nearest points, building to building, between the building where beer will be sold to the building of the nearest school, church, place of public gathering, or residence. The term "school" does not include private pre-school, private day care, home school, college, or university. (1996 Code, § 2-208, modified, as amended by Ord. #2002-09, May 2002, and Ord. #2007-18, Jan. 2008)