Legal Documents of Sweetwater

In issuing certificates of compliance sufficient for licensing liquor stores in the city permitted by this chapter, the board of commissioners will consider all applications filed after publication, at applicant's expense, in a newspaper of general circulation in Monroe County, Tennessee, of the notice required by Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 0100-03-.09(10)-(11). The board of commissioners will select from such applications the persons deemed by it in its sole discretion to have qualifications required by law and suitable circumstances for the lawful operation of a liquor store without regard to the time or order in which the applications are filed. Such persons and only such persons shall receive certificates of compliance issued by the city. Rejected applications expire upon rejection, but they will be kept by the city for reference in the event of later application by the same applicant. Applications can only be submitted to the city during the time frame the board of commissioners sets forth for receipt of such applications. Applications and all matters submitted with or as a part of such applications become at the time they are submitted the sole and exclusive property of the city and constitute public records open to public inspection. (as added by Ord. #872, July 2011, and amended by Ord. #923, March 2015)