(a) Any wholesaler, manufacturer, or distiller may sell intoxicating liquors to any post exchange, ship’s service store, mess, club, or commissary of any post, camp, station or reservation of the armed forces, or any other agency authorized by the department of defense to engage in the sale of intoxicating liquors.
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 57-3-110

  • beverage: means and includes alcohol, spirits, liquor, wine, high alcohol content beer, and every liquid containing alcohol, spirits, wine, and high alcohol content beer and capable of being consumed by a human being, other than patent medicine or beer, as defined in §. See Tennessee Code 57-3-101
  • Commission: means the alcoholic beverage commission, except as otherwise provided. See Tennessee Code 57-3-101
  • Distiller: means any person who owns, occupies, carries on, works, conducts or operates any distillery either personally or by an agent. See Tennessee Code 57-3-101
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Manufacturer: means and includes a brewer of high alcohol content beer, distiller, vintner and rectifier. See Tennessee Code 57-3-101
  • Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Wholesaler: means any person who sells at wholesale any beverage for the sale of which a license is required under this chapter. See Tennessee Code 57-3-101
(b) Before any person shall transport (other than by common carrier) alcoholic beverages within, into, or through this state, for delivery to any such ship’s service store, mess, club, commissary, or other agency under the jurisdiction of the department of defense, such person shall comply with § 57-3-403, and any other law applicable to the transporting of alcoholic beverages, and shall, in addition thereto, procure from the alcoholic beverage commission a special permit in such form as may be prescribed by the commission, which application, among other things, shall state the name and location of the post exchange, ship’s service store, mess, club, commissary, or other agency to which the delivery will be made, the route over which such shipment will be hauled, and the amount to be transported according to the separate containers making up such shipment.
(c) Before any common carrier shall transport alcoholic beverages within, into or through this state for delivery to a post exchange, ship’s service store, mess, commissary, club or other agency under the jurisdiction of the department of defense, notice of such shipment shall be given to the alcoholic beverage commission, which notice shall include, among other things, the name and location of the consignee, the route over which such shipment will be transported, and the amount to be transported according to the separate containers making up such shipment.
(d) It is herein declared to be the legislative intent to permit the sale of alcoholic beverages to post exchanges and similar agencies under the jurisdiction of the department of defense on military or naval reservations and posts within the boundaries of this state by wholesalers, manufacturers, and distilleries only upon strict compliance with this section, § 57-3-403 and all other sections applicable to the transportation of alcoholic beverages within, into, or through this state.
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