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Code of Sweetwater
Title 8 Alcoholic Beverages
Chapter 1 Liquor Stores
Title 8 Alcoholic Beverages
Chapter 1 Liquor Stores
Sweetwater
Title 8 : Alcoholic Beverages
Chapter 1 : Liquor Stores
8-107 : Restrictions generally.
- Certain devices and non-employee seating forbidden. No pinball machines, arcade gaming devices, including video games, jukeboxes or similar devices shall be permitted in any liquor store. No seating facilities, other than for employees of the liquor store, shall be permitted in any liquor store.
- Time and days of operation. No liquor store shall be open and no licensee shall sell or give away any alcoholic beverage on any Sunday. On other days, no liquor store shall be open and no licensee shall sell or give away any alcoholic beverage before eight o'clock in the morning (8:00 A.M.) Or after eleven o'clock at night (11:00 P.M.). No liquor store shall be open for business on Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Day, Labor Day or the Fourth of July.
- Selling or furnishing to person(s) below the age of twenty-one (21) years, etc. It shall be unlawful for any licensee to sell, furnish or give away any alcoholic beverage to a person below the age of twenty-one (21) years or to a person visibly intoxicated. It shall be unlawful for such person to enter or remain in a liquor store (except that employees with appropriate employee permits issued pursuant to state law who are age eighteen (18) years and older are permitted in a liquor store for the purpose of engaging in paid employment only) or to loiter in the immediate vicinity of a liquor store. It shall be unlawful for a person below the age of twenty-one (21) years to misrepresent his or her age in an attempt to gain admission to a liquor store or in an attempt to buy any alcoholic beverage from a licensee.
- Consumption on premises of liquor store. It shall be unlawful for any licensee to sell any alcoholic beverage for consumption in such licensee's liquor store or on the premises used by the licensee in connection therewith. It shall be unlawful for any person who is not an employee of the liquor store to consume any alcoholic beverage in the liquor store or in the immediate vicinity of the liquor store. Any consumption of an alcoholic beverage by an employee shall be limited solely to the circumstances permitted and set forth in the Rules of the Tennessee Alcoholic Beverage Commission and any applicable federal law.
- Advertising. There shall be no advertising signs of any kind whatsoever outside the building containing a liquor store either for the liquor store or to advertise any matter pertaining to alcoholic beverages sold at liquor stores except as set forth herein. One (1) wall sign shall be permitted on the side of the building which fronts upon a public street and one (1) wall sign shall be permitted on the side of the building which faces upon a customer parking area. There shall be a maximum of two (2) wall signs. Such wall signs are permitted a total area of one (1) square foot per each linear foot of building wall upon which the sign is mounted, not to exceed seventy-five (75) square feet. Such signs shall not extend from the wall more than twelve inches (12"). No such sign shall contain letters of neon or tube lighting so as to produce lighting within letters. Back lighting or internal illumination of a sign is permitted. No reader board or changeable copy signs shall be permitted. One (1) freestanding ground sign which complies with the zoning ordinance sign regulations shall be permitted on the premises. No banner or temporary or permanent sign or other material shall be placed on or inside a liquor store so that it obstructs free and clear vision of the interior of the liquor store from outside of the liquor store. The foregoing notwithstanding, one (1) banner advertising the grand opening of the liquor store shall be permitted for up to two (2) weeks when a liquor store is first opened for business provided a sign permit for such banner is obtained from the city. Liquor stores located within the historic district shall comply with the historic district sign requirements. (as added by Ord. #872, July 2011, and amended by Ord. #939, July 2016)
Date Last Updated: 08/05/2024
Codification Date: 03/01/2004
Officials at Date of Last Codification:
Mayor - Doyle F. Lowe
Vice Mayor - Sam Moser
Commissioner - Lamar Hughes
Commissioner - Johanna Jinks
Commissioner - Alan Richeson
Commissioner - James A. Stutts
Recorder - Sonya Crush
City Attorney - John Cleveland