47-18-117 - Out-of-state liquor advertisers Warning. - Tennessee Statutes

47-18-117. Out-of-state liquor advertisers Warning.

(a)  Any publication of general circulation, at least twenty percent (20%) of the published copies of which are sold or distributed in the state of Tennessee, which publishes any advertisement by or on behalf of any person, firm or corporation selling or distributing alcoholic beverages at retail in a state other than Tennessee, shall publish a notice to consumers as a part of, or immediately adjacent to, each such advertisement.

(b)  The notice shall read as follows:

WARNING: The importation or transportation of alcoholic beverages into the State of Tennessee by any person not possessing a permit from the Tennessee Alcoholic Beverage Commission is a CRIMINAL OFFENSE which could be punished by FINE or IMPRISONMENT or BOTH.

(c)  The notice shall be printed in a space equal to or greater than thirty percent (30%) of the total space devoted to each such advertisement in print no smaller than the largest print type employed in such advertisement.

[Acts 1981, ch. 339, § 1.]