Legal Documents of Maryville

There is hereby created a board to be known as the Maryville Beer Board, which shall be composed of the members of the City Council of the City of Maryville, whose duty it shall be to regulate, supervise and control the issuance, suspension and revocation of permits to sell, store, distribute, dispense, serve and/or manufacture beer as defined hereunder in the City of Maryville. The mayor shall be the chairman and the city recorder shall be the secretary of said board. A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for any purpose.

The secretary of the board shall keep a record of all the proceedings of the board, in the form of a minute book, and shall keep on file in his office all original applications and a duplicate of each permit issued. The board shall be empowered to employ a court reporter or person of equivalent ability whenever necessary in any proceeding before it. The power, right, and authority are hereby conferred upon said board to arrange for and prescribe the details and form of the necessary applications, permits, and other matters incident to carrying out the provisions of this chapter. The board shall meet upon call of the chairman of the board to transact such business as may properly come before it.

The board shall perform such other duties and have such other power and authority provided by statute and this chapter.

In this title, chapter and code, "beer" means beer, ale or malt beverages, or any other beverages having an alcohol content the same definition appearing in Tennessee Code Annotated, § 57-5-101 as defined in Tennessee Code Annotated, § 57-3-101; provided, however, that no more than forty-nine percent (49%) of the overall alcoholic content of such beverage may be derived from the addition of flavors and other non-beverage ingredients containing alcohol. (1999 Code, § 8-201)