The City License Officer shall collect all license fees and issue licenses in the name of the city to all persons qualified under this chapter, and shall:
(A) Rules and regulations. Promulgate and enforce all reasonable rules and regulations necessary to the operation and enforcement of this chapter;
(B) Adopt forms. Adopt all forms and prescribe the information to be given therein as to character and other relevant matters for all necessary papers;
(C) Require affidavits. Require applicants to submit all affidavits and oaths necessary to the administration of this chapter;
(D) Obtain endorsement. Submit all applications, in a proper case, to interested city officials for their endorsements thereon as to compliance by the applicant with all city regulations which the officials have the duty of enforcing;
(E) Investigations. Investigate and determine the eligibility of any applicant for a license, as prescribed in this chapter;
(F) Examine records. Examine the books and records of any applicant or licensee when reasonably necessary to the administration and enforcement of this chapter;
(G) Give notice. Notify an applicant of the acceptance or rejection of his or her application and, upon his or her refusal of any license or permit, at the applicant’s request, state, in writing, the reasons therefor and deliver them to the applicant; and
(H) Confidential information. Keep all information furnished or secured under the authority of this chapter in strict confidence. The information shall not be subject to public inspection and shall be kept so that the contents thereof shall not become known, except to persons charged with the administration of this chapter.
(Ord. 85-31, passed 10-15-1985)