4-156-320 License – Application – Approval conditions.

   (a)   Each application and all information required to be furnished in connection therewith or a copy thereof shall be referred for approval to the buildings commissioner, zoning administrator, and fire commissioner. The commissioner shall require the following individuals to submit to fingerprinting in order to determine whether the issuance of the license is prohibited pursuant to Section 4-156-355: the individual applicant; all officers of an applicant corporation; the three members who own the highest percentage interests of an applicant partnership; the general partners of an applicant limited partnership; the three members who own the highest percentage interests and, in the case of a member-managed limited liability company, the manager of an applicant limited liability company, unless the above listed individuals are already named on a valid liquor license or are named in a liquor license application that has been filed and is being processed for the same premises for which the public place of amusement license under this Article III is sought.

   (b)   After receiving zoning approval, an applicant for a public place of amusement license under this Article III shall pay the license fee at the time of filing the application. No later than 30 days after payment of the license fee, the applicant shall submit to the department all required documentation, as prescribed in rules, necessary to complete the application. If the applicant submits all the required documentation within the 30-day period, the commissioner shall review the application and documentation and any written objections to granting the license and shall approve or deny the application within 60 days after all required documentation has been submitted. If the applicant fails to submit all the required documentation within the 30-day period, the application shall be deemed to be incomplete and the commissioner shall suspend all further action on the application unless the applicant reactivates the application within six months after the original application was filed by: (1) submitting all required documentation necessary to complete the application, and (2) payment of a reactivation fee of $500.00.

   If the applicant reactivates the license application in accordance with this subsection, the commissioner shall review the application and documentation and any written objections to granting the license and shall approve or deny the application within 60 days after all required documentation has been submitted and the license application reactivation fee is paid.

   If the commissioner determines the application to be incomplete and the applicant fails to reactivate the application in accordance with this subsection, or if the applicant withdraws the application, the application shall expire and the applicant shall forfeit the license fee and any license application reactivation fee paid by the applicant.

   If the license application expires or is withdrawn, a new application for a public place of amusement license under this Article III, accompanied by the appropriate license fee, and all required documentation shall be required to obtain a license.

   (c)   The procedures for the denial of a license set forth in Chapter 4-4 shall apply to the denial under this Article III of an application for a public place of amusement license.

(Added Coun. J. 12-9-92, p. 25465; Amend Coun. J. 7-2-97, p. 48017; Amend Coun. J. 5-9-07, p. 105047, § 9; Amend Coun. J. 11-19-08, p. 47220, Art. V, § 5; Amend Coun. J. 4-10-13, p. 51217, § 2; Amend Coun. J. 5-18-16, p. 24131, § 16; Amend Coun. J. 4-19-17, p. 48180, Art. V, § 11)

 

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