Legal Documents of Maryville

Permits for the on-premises sale or giving away of beer shall be issued according to the following classes and limitations, except that this provision shall not be applicable to the renewal of any permit existing and outstanding prior to July 1, 2025.

1. On-premises where beer is sold in the rooms of regularly conducted hotels and motels are defined under Tennessee state law regulating beer permits. Beer sold under such permits shall be dispensed to adult guests only through locked, in-room units. No person under the age of twenty-one (21) shall be issued or supplied with a key by any hotel or motel for such units.
2. On-premises where beer is sold by a manufacturer of beer. A "manufacturer" shall mean a business establishment whose business is the manufacture of beer to be consumed on- or off-premises.
3. On-premises where beer is sold by a craft beer retailer. A "craft beer retailer" means an enterprise whose primary business is the retail sale of "craft beer." "Craft beer" means beer as defined in this article that is further manufactured by breweries with an annual production of six million (6,000,000) barrels or less, and less than twenty-five percent (25%) of the brewery is owned or controlled by a beverage alcohol industry member that is not itself a craft beer brewer. (1999 Code, § 8-209, as amended by Ord. #2019-05, April 2019, Ord. #2022-17, May 2022, and Ord. #2022-18, May 2022, modified, and replaced by Ord. #2025-14, July 2025 Ch1_12-2-25)