57-7-102 - Restrictions on sale, dispensing or keeping by druggists Intoxicating liquor defined.
57-7-102. Restrictions on sale, dispensing or keeping by druggists Intoxicating liquor defined.
(a) It is unlawful for any person engaged in the sale of drugs to sell, dispense, or possess or store as medicine or beverage or for any other purpose, any intoxicating liquor, except as hereinafter provided; and for the purpose of this chapter, intoxicating liquor means any medicine or beverage containing over one half of one percent (½ of 1%) of alcohol that is not sufficiently medicated so as to prevent its use as beverage or its use for its internal alcoholic effect; provided, that this section shall not apply to medicines containing only a sufficient percentage of alcohol to extract and preserve the medicinal property thereof.
(b) A violation of this section is a Class C misdemeanor.
[Acts 1917, ch. 68, § 2; Shan., § 3079a317b5 (p. 6852); Shan. Supp., § 3079a317b5; Code 1932, § 5722; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 57-405; Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 113.]