(A) After the receipt of a properly completed and filed application, the Chief of Police shall refer the matter for an investigation concerning the statements made in such application, the character and reputation of the applicant and those he stated to be managers or supervisors of his or her practice and activity, the condition of the premises and equipment and methods to be used, with a view to the preservation of public health, peace, safety and welfare.
(B) Prior to the Police Department initiating the investigation and the granting of a permit, the applicant shall file with the Police Department his or her photograph and his or her fingerprints and, subject to acceptance by the Police Department as being satisfactory, shall leave the photograph and fingerprint impressions with the Police Department as a part of the records of the Department, for the purpose of enabling the Department to make any investigation of any complaints which may have been made, if any, against such applicant at any time or place; or the applicant shall be fingerprinted in the usual and approved method for the identification of the applicant by the Police Department and a photograph of the applicant shall be taken and made by the Police Department or under its direction. The photographs shall be permanently affixed to the permit issued to the applicant if the same is issued. In the event the photograph is removed from the permit or becomes defaced so that the original thereof cannot be identified, then the permit, at the option of the Council, may immediately be revoked.
(C) If at the end of 30 days from the date of referral for the report no adverse report has been made by the Police Department as to the record of the applicant, and if applicant’s proposed activity will not, in the opinion of the Police Chief, be detrimental to the public peace, health, safety and welfare, the application shall be deemed completed, and the Chief of Police shall issue a permit, numbered and in due form, allowing applicant to practice the activity specified in the application upon payment of the prescribed permit fee and the filing of a surety bond in the principal sum of $2,000, executed as surety by good and sufficient corporate surety, authorized to do a surety business in the state and as principal by the applicant which shall have been approved by the City Manager as to sufficiency, and by the City Attorney as to form, which bond shall have been given to insure good faith and fair dealing on the part of the applicant and as a guarantee of indemnity for any and all loss, damage, injury, theft or other unfair dealing suffered by any patron of the applicant within the city during the term of the permit.
(`78 Code, § 5.18.050.) (Ord. 2347 § 25, 1998; Ord. 2315 § 1 (part), 1997.)