(A) Each license shall be issued only to the applicant for the premises described in the application.
(B) Not more than one license shall be directly or indirectly issued within the city to any one person.
(C) No license shall be granted or renewed for operation on any premises on which taxes, assessments, utility charges, service charges, or other financial claims of the city are delinquent and unpaid.
(D) No license shall be issued for any place or any business ineligible for a license under state law.
(E) No license shall be issued to any person who is not a resident of the state. If the applicant is a corporation, all of the shareholders shall be residents of the state. The provisions of this division (E) shall not apply to any license existing on the effective date of this chapter or to the renewal of an existing license.
(F) No license shall be granted within 500 feet of any school or church. The distance is to be measured from the closest side of the church to the closest side of the structure on the premises within which liquor is to be sold. This distance restriction shall not apply to premises that were operating an on-sale and/or off-sale liquor establishment on or before January 1, 2015. This distance restriction also does not apply to successor businesses of premises operating on or before January 1, 2015 as long as it is, but for the change of ownership, the same business.
(G) The restrictions outlined herein do not apply to restaurants with on sale intoxicating liquor licenses.
(Ord. 279, passed 12-1-2010; Am. Ord. 317B, passed 3-4-2015; Am. Ord. 319, passed 6-17-2015) Penalty, see §
113.99