(A) Application for licenses provided for in this chapter shall be made to the City Alcoholic Beverage Control Administrator on forms furnished by the city. Each application shall be verified and contain the same information concerning the applicant and the premises as that required on application for state licenses, and any other information that the City Alcoholic Beverage Control Administrator may, by regulation, require.
(B) Each application must be accompanied by the signatures of at least ten reputable citizens living within 400 feet of the place in which the business is to be conducted, or ten persons owning real estate within 400 feet of the place in which the business is to be conducted. If there are not ten reputable citizens living within 400 feet of the place in which the business is to be conducted or if there are not ten persons owning real estate within 400 feet of the place in which the business is to be conducted, the application provided for herein will be sufficient if accompanied by the signatures of all the owners or reputable citizens owning property or residing within 400 feet, even though the number is less than ten, who shall certify that they know the applicant to be a person of honesty, probity, good demeanor, and reputation, and are requesting that the license be granted.
(C) Each application shall be accompanied by a certified check, cash, or a postal or express money order for the license fee.
(D) Each application shall remain on file for public inspection, and no license shall be granted within 14 days of the date of the filing of the application. The City Alcoholic Beverage Control Administrator shall present the application to the City Council at a regular meeting for examination by the City Council, and if correct in form, it shall be laid over until the next regular meeting of the City Council. During the period that the application is laid over, there shall be posted by the Chief of Police for not less than seven consecutive days in three conspicuous public places within 300 feet of the premises in which the business for which the license is sought is to be carried on, a notice that the license has been applied for. This notice shall bear the name of the applicant, the kind of license applied for, the address of the premises in which the business is to be carried on, the name of the owner of the premises, and shall give notice of the time of the meeting of the City Council at which the application will be finally considered. The notice shall also be published once in a newspaper as required by law.
(E) Upon final consideration of the question of whether a license applied for shall be granted, any person having good cause or reason to object to the granting of the license may appear before the City Alcoholic Beverage Control Administrator at the regular meeting of the City Council and be heard. If the applicant so desires he shall have the opportunity to be heard by the City Alcoholic Beverage Control Administrator.
(F) If the Alcoholic Beverage Control Administrator refuses to issue the license he shall notify the applicant of his determination by mailing a registered letter to him, directed to the address given in his application. If at the expiration of ten days after the date of the mailing of the notice from the Alcoholic Beverage Control Administrator, no appeal has been filed, the license fee shall be refunded to the applicant. After a license has been granted, no part of the license fee paid thereunder shall be refunded to the licensee.
('83 Code, § 111.05) (Ord. 1134, passed 4-1-63)