A permit may be issued for the sale of beer for on-premises consumption to any club that has been licensed by the State of Tennessee Alcoholic Beverage Commission to sell alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption. A permit will not be issued for the sale of beer for consumption on the premises to any club that has not been licensed by the State of Tennessee Alcoholic Beverage Commission except a private club, which shall mean an organization of persons incorporated pursuant to the provisions of the not for profit corporation law and membership corporation law of the State of Tennessee, and which is the owner, lessee, or occupant of a building used exclusively for private club purposes, and which does not traffic in alcoholic beverages for profit and is solely for the recreational, social, patriotic, political, benevolent or athletic purpose, but not for pecuniary gain for its members. A member of a private club shall mean a person, whether a charter member or admitted in agreement with the by-laws of the private club, who has become a bona fide member thereof, who maintains his membership by the payment of his annual dues in a bona fide manner and in accordance with the by-laws and whose name and address is entered on the official list of members of the said private club. Any such private club so obtaining a beer permit shall only do so for the sale at retail of beer, and shall sell said alcoholic beverage only to its members and their invited guests and shall not sell the same to the general public
(as added by Ord. #011-01-01, Feb. 2011)