CHAPTER NO. 722

SENATE BILL NO. 2437

By Crutchfield

Substituted for: House Bill No. 3131

By Kent

AN ACT To amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 57-4-102(17), relative to the definition of premier type tourist resort for the purpose of licensing by the alcoholic beverage commission.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:

SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 57-4-102(17), is amended by adding the following new subdivision:

(K) A commercially operated recreational facility whether open to the public or limited to members and guests of an association or of the development on which it is located, owned and operated by an association or corporation and in connection with an eighteen (18) hole golf course, which facility is regularly kept, used and maintained as a place where meals are actually and regularly served, with adequate and sanitary kitchen facilities, and which facility meets all the following characteristics:

(i) The facility must be located in or adjacent to a real estate development containing no less than one thousand, one hundred (1,100) acres and no more than two thousand (2,000) acres.

(ii) The facility must have no less than nine thousand (9,000) enclosed square feet.

(iii) The facility must be located within the limits of a development which is contiguous to a water reservoir operated and maintained by the United States Army Corp of Engineers during 1998 or any subsequent years.

(iv) Maintenance within the recreational area of the following types of recreational facilities:

(a) Golf course of at least eighteen (18) holes;

(b) Swimming pool;

(c) Tennis court; and

(d) Walking trails.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.

PASSED: March 30, 1998

APPROVED this 8th day of April 1998