HOUSE BILL 44
By Reedy SENATE BILL 1452
By Roberts AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section
57-3-106, relative to alcoholic beverages.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 57-3-106(b)(1), is amended by
deleting the subdivision and substituting instead:
Except in a county having a population of sixty-five thousand (65,000) and not more than seventy thousand (70,000), according to the 1970 federal census or any subsequent federal census, the voters of any municipality in this state which has been incorporated under a general or special law or laws of this state for five (5) years or
longer, may, by local option election, permit the manufacture, receipt, sale, storage,
transportation, distribution, and possession of alcoholic beverages within the territorial limits of such municipality by a majority vote, at an election held as provided in this section, and in the event of such permission, the manufacture, receipt, sale, storage,
transportation, distribution, and possession of alcoholic beverages in such municipality shall be, and become lawful, notwithstanding the fact that the county or any portion thereof in which such municipality is located has, or has not, voted to the contrary under this chapter, and the same shall continue to be lawful until the same is forbidden by the voters of such municipality, by majority vote thereof, at a local option election held as
provided in this section.
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
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Statutes affected:
Introduced: 57-3-106(b)(1), 57-3-106