It shall be unlawful for any beer permit holder to:
(A) Employ any person under 18 years of age in the sale, storage, distribution or manufacture of beer;
(B) It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, corporation, joint stock company, syndicate or association to offer for sale or sell beer or other alcoholic beverage with an alcoholic content not exceeding 8% by weight within the corporate limits of the city, between the hours of 3:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. on weekdays, and between the hours of 3:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. on Sunday. No such beverages shall be consumed or opened for consumption on or about any premises where beer or other beverage with an alcoholic content not exceeding 8% of weight is sold within the corporate limits of the city, in either bottle, glass or other container after 3:15 a.m. In addition, where the establishment licensed hereunder is exclusively or primarily engaged in the sale of beer as defined in this section, the following additional conditions shall apply between the hours of 3:15 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. on weekdays, and between the hours of 3:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. on Sunday:
(1) No customers, patrons or friends either of the operator or of any employee of the establishment shall be allowed to remain or be found on or about the premises;
(2) No open or closed containers of beer shall be permitted or found to remain on any tables, bars or in any other place where the persons customarily drink, and all containers, empty or otherwise, shall be required and found to be disposed of or placed in storage behind the bar or other proper storage place, where the persons do not ordinarily have access; and
(3) The only persons who shall be permitted to remain and be found on or about the premises shall be bona fide employees of the establishment or other personnel directly engaged in the operation, upkeep and maintenance of the business and/or the premises.
(C) Deliver beer to any purchaser or purchasers, except during those hours set out herein;
(D) Sell intoxicating liquor, except in establishments that have a state-issued "liquor by the drink" license. Patrons shall be permitted to enter beer establishments with bagged intoxicating liquors only under these conditions:
(1) The patron retains the bottle under his or her control and does all pouring and mixing of drinks, except however, in the case of cork-finished wine as defined by T.C.A. § 57-3-101(20), it is permissible for permit holder to both open and pour the wine while the bottle remains at patrons table; and
(2) The permittee may sell "set-ups" to the patron.
(E) Allow the possession of beer by any person, including permittee, within the permittee's place of business at a time when beer may not be legally sold; the possession shall constitute evidence of an illegal sale;
(F) Make or allow any sale of beer or alcoholic beverage to a person under 21 years of age;
(G) Allow any person under 21 years of age to loiter in or about his or her place of business. The term LOITERING, within the meaning of this section, shall mean to be dilatory, to be slow in movement, to stand around, to spend time idly, to saunter, to delay, to idle, to linger, to lag behind. However, nothing in this section shall prohibit persons under the age of 21 from dining in establishments which have a beer permit, but whose exclusive or primary business is the sale of food. But these establishments shall ensure that all containers of alcoholic beverages, both open and closed, are not provided by customers, patrons or any other persons, to persons under the age of 21; shall immediately remove empty and partially empty containers of alcoholic beverages from the tables where persons under the age of 21 are seated unless accompanied by a parent or guardian; and shall store all alcoholic beverages behind the bar or other proper storage place not ordinarily accessible to customers or patrons;
(H) Make or allow any sale of beer to any intoxicated person or to any feebleminded, insane or otherwise mentally incapacitated person;
(I) Allow drunk or disreputable persons to loiter about his or her premises;
(J) Allow customers, patrons or friends to remain in the permittee's place of business longer than 30 minutes past the time the permittee closes the place of business to the public. The only persons who shall be permitted to remain and be found on or about the premises shall be bona fide employees of the establishment or other personnel directly engaged in the operation, upkeep and maintenance of the business and/or the premises;
(K) Fail to provide and maintain separate sanitary toilet facilities for men and women;
(L) Notwithstanding the foregoing prohibitions in division (J) above, customers, patrons, friends and other invitees of the permittee may remain in the improvement to property constituting the place of business of the permittee after the posted closing time of permittee's place of business until 12:30 a.m., but no longer; provided that:
(1) The permittee allows the customers, patrons, friends and invitees to remain after the posted closing time; and
(2) The permittee's posted closing time is 12:00 a.m. or earlier. In no event shall customers, patrons, friends and other invitees remain in the permittee's place of business past 12:30 a.m. where the permittee's posted closing time is 12:00 a.m. or earlier. For all permittees whose closing time is later than 12:00 a.m., the prohibitions and provisions of division (J) above, this section and chapter remain unchanged and in full force and effect, to be enforced as written; and
(M) Violate, or knowingly aid or abet the violation of, City Codes and state and federal laws, statutes and regulations, regarding controlled substances and drugs, including, without limitation, the Tennessee Drug Control Act and Title 9 of the Crossville Code of Ordinances.
(1989 Code, § 8-212, modified) (Ord. 1136, passed 8-6-2007; Ord. 1201, passed 11-6-2008; Ord. 1342, passed 2-7-2012; Ord. 1454, passed 9-9-2014; Ord. 1474, passed 4-23-2015; Ord. 1674, passed 6-14-2022)