Athens City Code

1. (1) Definitions. The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this section, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this subsection, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
   
   Responsible vendor means a person, corporation or other entity that has been issued a permit to sell beer for off-premises consumption and has received certification by the state alcoholic beverage commission under the Tennessee Responsible Vendor Act of 2006, T.C.A. § 57-5-601 et seq.
2. (2) Civil penalty, revocation or suspension. The beer board may, at the time it imposes a revocation or suspension, offer a permit holder that is not a responsible vendor the alternative of paying a civil penalty not to exceed $2,500.00 for each offense of making or permitting to be made any sales to minors, or a civil penalty not to exceed $1,000.00 for any other offense.
   1. (a) The beer board may impose on a responsible vendor a civil penalty not to exceed $1,000.00 for each offense of making or permitting to be made any sales to minors or for any other offense.
   2. (b) If a civil penalty is offered as an alternative to revocation or suspension, the holder shall have seven days within which to pay the civil penalty before the revocation or suspension shall be imposed. If the civil penalty is paid within that time, the revocation or suspension shall be deemed withdrawn.
   3. (c) Payment of the civil penalty in lieu of revocation or suspension by a permit holder shall be an admission by the holder of the violation so charged and shall be paid to the exclusion of any other penalty that the city may impose.

(Code 1995, § 8-216; Ord. No. 784, 11-16-1993; Ord. No. 873, 1-16-2001; Ord. No. 963, 11-20-2007; Ord. No. 1035, § 2, 3-17-2015)