(A) Upon the filing of the application hereinabove prescribed with accompanying documents, accompanied by the evidence therein required and upon the payment of the required license fee, the Director of Finance shall deliver the application and accompanying documents to the Chief of Police, who shall conduct the investigation mentioned above and who shall, within one month of receipt thereof, unless the Town Council has granted an extension, deliver the application and accompanying documents to the Town Council. If his or her investigation has revealed any information that would make the applicant ineligible for issuance of a license, he or she shall deliver evidence of the same to the Town Council. The Town Council shall, at its next regular meeting following receipt thereof, or at any special meeting called for that purpose consider the application and shall notify the applicant of the hearing. The Town Council may, in its discretion, decline to authorize a license if the applicant is ineligible for issuance of a license, he or she shall deliver evidence of the same to the Town Council. The Town Council shall, at its next regular meeting following receipt thereof, or at any special meeting called for that purpose consider the application, and shall notify the applicant of the hearing. The Town Council may, in its discretion, decline to authorize a license if the applicant is ineligible or in the judgment of the Town Council, it will be in the best interests of the town to refuse such license.
(B) Upon such refusal, the license fee paid by the applicant, less the sum of $75, which shall be retained as an application fee, shall be returned to the applicant. The Town Council may, in its discretion, require any individual named in the application to testify before it. Failure to appear and answer constitutes grounds for denial of the application. All proceedings of the Town Council regarding the granting or declining of a license shall be at public meetings and are reviewable by a writ of review.
(Prior Code, § 5.10.150) (Ord. 204, passed - -)