Legal Documents of Newport

It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, store for sale, distribute for sale, or manufacture beer without first making application to and obtaining a permit from the beer board. The application shall be made on such form as the board shall prescribe and/or furnish, and pursuant to Tennessee Code Annotated, § 57-5-101(b), and shall be accompanied by a non-refundable application fee of two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00). Said fee shall be in the form of cash or check made payable to the City of Newport. Each applicant must be a person of good moral character and certify that he has read and is familiar with the provisions of this.

1. Privilege tax. There is hereby imposed in the business of selling, distributing, storing or manufacturing beer an annual privilege tax of one hundred dollars ($100.00). Any person, firm, corporation, joint stock company, syndicate or association engaged in the sale, distribution, storage or manufacture of beer shall remit the tax on January 1, 1994 and each successive January 1, to the City of Newport, Tennessee. At the time a new permit is issued to any business subject to this tax, the permit holder shall be required to pay the privilege tax on a prorated basis for each month or portion thereof remaining until the next payment date.
2. Civil penalty in lieu of suspension. The beer board may, at the time it imposes a revocation or suspension offer a permit holder the alternative of paying a civil penalty not to exceed one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500.00) for each offense of making or permitting to be made any sales to minors or, a civil penalty is offered as an alternative to revocation or suspension, the holder shall have seven (7) days within which to pay the civil penalty before the revocation or suspension shall be imposed. If the civil penalty is paid within that time, the revocation or suspension shall be deemed withdrawn. (Ord. #2007-19, May 2007)