(A) Upon receipt of the license application, the Chief of Police shall conduct a criminal background check on the applicant and all persons named in the application. After consideration of the application and all information and data obtained relative thereto, the Chief of Police shall license the applicant as an itinerant merchant if the Chief determines that the applicant has the qualifications and meets the requirements of this chapter, and all other applicable laws and ordinances. Otherwise, the Chief of Police shall deny the application. The Chief of Police may, in his or her discretion, allow the applicant to make minor emendations and corrections in the application not affecting the applicant’s qualifications as an itinerant merchant.
(B) The application shall also be denied:
(1) If the applicant or any person who is to participate in the business, or any person having management or supervision of the business, has ever been convicted of a felony, or has been convicted of a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude within ten years prior to the date of the application;
(2) If the purpose of the business is otherwise unlawful; and/or
(3) If the village has denied a previous application for itinerant merchant license submitted by the applicant within the previous year, or revoked the applicant’s license as an itinerant merchant in the previous five years.
(C) If the application for a license is approved, the Chief of Police shall forthwith issue the applicant a license, provided the applicant pays the license fee established pursuant to this chapter.
(D) The license shall contain a permanently affixed photograph of the applicant and copies thereof shall contain the names, addresses, and the photograph of each person who is authorized to conduct business on behalf of the applicant.
(E) The applicant may appeal any denial of an application to the Village President, whose disposition of the appeal shall be further subject to review pursuant to the Administrative Review Law.
(Ord. 07-15, passed 12-18-2007)