Legal Documents of White Pine

No permit authorizing the sale of beer will be issued when such business would cause congestion of traffic or would interfere with hospitals, schools, churches, parks, or other places of public gathering, or would otherwise interfere with the public health, safety, and morals. For purposes of application of this section, in no event will a permit be issued authorizing the sale of beer within two hundred feet (200') of any, public school or church. The distances shall be measured in a straight line from the nearest point of any portion of the building from which the beer will be sold to the nearest point of any portion of the school, or church (i.e., building to building). If property is in the C-1. C-2, or C-3 zone, the distance rule will not apply.

No permit shall be suspended, revoked or denied on the basis of proximity of the establishment to a hospital, school, or church, if a valid permit had been issued to any business on that same location, unless beer is not sold, distributed or manufactured at that location during any continuous one (1) year period. "School" does not include private pre-school, private day care, home school or any institution of learning within the jurisdiction of the Tennessee Higher Education Commission as set forth in Tennessee Code Annotated, § 49-7-203. Issuance of a permit pursuant to § 8-211 shall be subject to the provisions of § 8-207. No permit shall be denied on the basis of proximity to any facility described above if the application for the permit was duly filed and accompanied with the appropriate filing fee prior to commencement of the use of any facility described above for the purposes which would otherwise prohibit the issuance of the permit. (1978 Code, § 2-211, as amended by Ord. #8-07, Oct. 2007, and replaced by Ord. #8-23, Aug. 2023 Ch15_11-07-23)