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Code of Sweetwater

Table of Contents » Title 8 Alcoholic Beverages » Chapter 2 Beer » § 8-202 Beer business lawful but subject to regulation.
Sweetwater
Title 8 : Alcoholic Beverages
Chapter 2 : Beer

8-202 : Beer business lawful but subject to regulation.[5]

The transportation, storage, sale, distribution, possession, and/or manufacture of beer, ale or other malt beverages, or any other beverage having an alcoholic content of not more than eight percent (8%) by weight, except wine as defined in Tennessee Code Annotated, § 57-3-101, shall be lawful within the corporate limits of Sweetwater, Tennessee, but subject to the regulations hereinafter set out and provided. (1982 Code, § 2-202, as replaced by Ord. #1009, March 2023 Ch8_08-05-24)

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State Law reference -- For a leading ease on a municipality's authority to regulate beer, see Watkins v. Naifeh, 635 S.W.2d 104 (Tenn. 1982); and Wood v. Decatur Cty., Tenn., 2014 Tenn. App. LEXIS 510 (Tenn.Ct.App. Aug. 25, 2014).
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