Pursuant to Idaho Code section 23-910, no license shall be issued to:
A. Any person, or any one of its members, officers or governing board, who has, within three (3) years prior to the date of making application, been convicted of any violation of the laws of the United States, the state of Idaho, or any other state of the United States, or of the resolutions or ordinances of any county or city of this state, relating to the importation, transportation, manufacture or sale of alcoholic liquor or beer; or who has been convicted of, paid any fine, been placed on probation, received a deferred sentence, received a withheld judgment or completed any sentence of confinement for any felony within five (5) years prior to the date of making application for any license;
B. A person who is engaged in the operation, or interested therein, of any house or place for the purpose of prostitution or who has been convicted of any crime or misdemeanor opposed to decency and morality;
C. A person whose license issued under this chapter has been revoked; an individual who was a member of a partnership or association which was a licensee under this chapter and whose license has been revoked; an individual who was an officer, member of the governing board or one of the ten (10) principal stockholders of a corporation which was a licensee under this chapter and whose license has been revoked; a partnership or association one of whose members was a licensee under this chapter and whose license has been revoked; a corporation, one of whose officers, member of the governing board or ten (10) principal stockholders was a licensee under the provisions of this chapter and whose license has been revoked; an association or partnership, one of whose members was a member of a partnership or association licensed under the provisions of this chapter and whose license has been revoked; a partnership or association, one of whose members was an officer, a member of the governing board, or one of the ten (10) principal stockholders of a corporation licensed under the provisions of this chapter and whose license has been revoked; a corporation, one of whose officers, member of the governing board, or ten (10) principal stockholders was a member of a partnership or association licensed under the provisions of this chapter and whose license was revoked; a corporation, one of whose officers, member of the governing board, or ten (10) principal stockholders was an officer, member of the governing board, or one of the ten (10) principal stockholders of a corporation licensed under the provisions of this chapter and whose license was revoked;
D. Any officer, agent or employee of any distillery, winery, brewery, or any wholesaler or jobber, of liquor or malt beverages, except as provided in Idaho Code section 23-912. This prohibition shall not apply to officers, agents or employees of any winery operating a golf course on the same premises as the winery;
E. A person who does not hold a retail beer license issued under the laws of the state of Idaho;
F. Any person under the age of nineteen (19) years;
G. Any person who is not the bona fide owner of such business;
H. Any person who is not a citizen of the United States, or has not been a bona fide resident of the state for at least thirty (30) days preceding the date of application for a license; or
1. If a partnership, all members thereof shall be citizens of the United States and have been bona fide residents of the state for at least thirty (30) days preceding the date of application for a license; or
2. If a corporation or association, organized under the laws of the state or qualified under the laws of the state to do business in the state, and the principal officers and the members of the governing board must be citizens of the United States and bona fide residents of the state for at least thirty (30) days next preceding the date of application for such a license;
I. Has had a license revoked by the city, the state or any city and county of this state; was a member of a partnership or association whose license has been revoked by the city, the state, or any city and county of this state; has an employee, officer or member of the governing board, or one of the principal stockholders of a corporation licensed to sell alcoholic beverages at retail and whose license has been revoked by this city, the state or any city and county of this state.
The affirmative showing required with respect to qualifications of an applicant shall also be made with the respect to each partner of a partnership applicant and to each incumbent officer, director or member of the governing board of a corporation or association applicant, and to each person then employed by an applicant whose duties include the serving or dispensing of alcoholic beverages.
Any license, held by any licensee disqualified under the provisions of this section from being issued a license, shall forthwith be revoked. (Ord. 747 § 5, 2000; Ord. 211 § 8, 1947)