July 1, 1909
Tennessee
Closed the principal intrastate beverage-sales channels months before the separate manufacturing ban became effective.
Verified from the complete Motlow opinion. Use July 1 as the secure effective date. Reported sources differ between January 20 and January 23 for the law’s earlier enactment or passage date, so that discrepancy is preserved rather than resolved by inference.
Chapter 1 completed Tennessee’s four-mile-law system and took effect July 1, 1909, making beverage sales unlawful statewide in the court’s account.
Statewide sales milestone
The Tennessee Supreme Court described Chapter 1 of the Acts of 1909 as completing the successive four-mile laws and stated that it took effect July 1, 1909.
Date caution
The July 1 effective date is secure. Different reported accounts use January 20 or January 23 for the preceding enactment or passage date; the enrolled Chapter 1 act has not yet been added, so no single earlier day is presented as uncontested.