(a) The Director of Public Safety shall act on the application within thirty (30) days after the filing of the reports required in Section 727.05.
(b) This application will be denied if:
(1) The application is incomplete, contains any false information or fails to comply with these regulations;
(2) If the applicant is a limited partnership, corporation or other entity, the applicant is not in good standing in the jurisdiction where organized;
(3) The operation of an entertainment club at the specified premises would violate existing zoning restrictions;
(4) The report of the building, health and safety inspections conducted pursuant to Section 727.05(a) reveals any illegal, unsanitary, unsafe or hazardous condition on the premises subject to the permit or renewal permit or any violation of applicable health and safety codes;
(5) The applicant for a permit to operate an entertainment club has failed to cooperate with any required building, health or safety inspection or background investigation;
(6) The applicant or any person named in the application for a permit to operate an entertainment club is under age eighteen;
(7) The applicant or any person named in the application for permit to operate an entertainment club within the past five years has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a felony, or any offense under Ohio Revised Code Chapter 2907 or substantially equivalent offense under a municipal ordinance in Ohio, or under the laws of another state or territory or of the United States, or under a municipal ordinance in any such jurisdiction;
(8) Any person employed at the entertainment club has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a violation of Section 727.99;
(9) The Liquor Control Commission has revoked, under Section 4301.25 of the Revised Code, a permit held by any one of the persons named on the application;
(10) The applicant has violated these regulations, or aided and abetted any violation of these regulations;
(11) If the location of the entertainment club is within one thousand feet from the boundaries of a parcel of real estate having situated on it a school, church, library, public park, tavern, bar, adult cabaret, or another entertainment club;
(12) If the location of the entertainment club is within one thousand feet from the boundaries of any residential district;
(13) If the building, structure, or portion thereof already contains a bar or tavern and the premises will be used as a teen club.
(c) If the application is denied, the Director of Public Safety shall promptly notify the applicant in writing of the order denying the application. If approved, the Director of Public Safety shall promptly issue to the applicant a permit.
(d) A permit to operate an entertainment club shall contain the address of the permit premises, the name and address of the permit holder, and the date of issuance and date of expiration of the permit.
(Ord. 146-94. Passed 7-11-94.)