(1) No shop shall be established in Municipal Corporations and Municipalities within a distance of 50(fifty) metres and in other areas 100 (hundred) metres from any place of worship or education institutions:
Provided that the distance restriction shall not apply in areas designated as “Commercial” or “Industrial” by the Development or Town Planning Authorities:
Provided further that no shop shall be established within the premises of any hotel:
Provided also that if any place of worship, educational institution comes into existence subsequent to the establishment of the shop, the provisions of this rule shall not apply:
Provided also that no liquor shops shall be established in any tribal areas covered under Integrated Tribal Development Project and Hill Area Development Project in the Hill area of Vellore, Salem, Namakkal, Dindigul, Tirunelveli and Kanniyakumari districts.
(2) Every shop shall be housed in pucka building and no part of the shops shall be thatched either on the sides or on the roof.
(3) The shop shall be in the location approved by the Collector before commencing the business in the shops.
Synopsis Liquor shop in objectionable place: Liquor shop was located opposite to Civil Court. It is an objectionable place. Hence direction issued to shift it to some unobjectionable place. [S. Manivannan vs. District Collector, Villupuram, 2010 (2) CWC 527(Mad): 2011 (3) MLJ 956 (Mad)] Liquor shop in commercial area: Liquor shop is located in commercial area in accordance with the rules. Hence no Public Interest Litigation involved.
[A. Thirumaran vs. The Inspector of Police and others, 2011 (3) MLJ 519 (Mad): 2011 Writ L.R. 318(Mad)]