(A) Issue licenses. The City Treasurer shall collect all license fees and the City Clerk shall issue licenses in the name of the city after all applicable fees have been paid to all persons qualified under the provisions of this subchapter and are as follows:
(1) Make rules. Promulgate and enforce all reasonable rules and regulations necessary to operation and enforcement of this subchapter;
(2) Adopt forms. Adopt all forms and prescribe the information to be given therein as to character and other relevant matter for all necessary papers;
(3) Require affidavits. Require applicants to submit all affidavits and oaths necessary to the administration of this subchapter;
(4) Obtain endorsement. Submit all applications, in a proper case, to interested city officials for their endorsements thereon as to compliance by the applicant with all city regulations which they have the duty of enforcing;
(5) Investigate. Investigate and determine the eligibility of any applicant for a license as prescribed herein;
(6) Examine records. Examine the books and records of any applicant or licensee when reasonably necessary to the administration and enforcement of this subchapter; and
(7) Give notice. Notify any applicant of the acceptance or rejection of his or her application and shall, upon his or her refusal of any license or permit at the applicant's request, state in writing the reasons therefor and deliver them to the applicant.
(B) Information confidential. The City Clerk shall keep all confidential information furnished or secured under the authority of this subchapter, in strict confidence. The information shall not be subject to public inspection and shall be kept so that the contents thereof shall not become known except to the persons charged with the administration of this subchapter.
(Ord. 396, passed 1-29-1981; Am. Ord., passed 9-8-2020)