A. Persons Ineligible: No license shall be issued to:
1. An individual who is not a citizen of the United States or who has not been a bona fide resident of the state of Idaho at least one month next preceding the granting of such license; or to a partnership unless all members thereof are citizens of the United States and have been residents of the state of Idaho for at least one month; or to a corporation or association unless the same is organized under the laws of the state or qualified to do business in the state and unless the principal officers and members of the governing board are citizens of the United States and residents of the state of Idaho for one month.
2. 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 a violation of any law of the United States, the state of Idaho, or any other state of the United States, or any city ordinance relating to the importation, transportation, manufacture or sale of liquor, or any person who has been convicted of any felony or has paid any fine or completed any sentence or confinement for any felony within five (5) years prior to the date of making application for license.
3. The following:
a. Any person whose license issued under this chapter or the laws of the state has been revoked.
b. Any individual who is a member of a partnership or association which has a license under this chapter or the laws of the state and whose license has been revoked.
c. Any individual who was an officer, member of the governing board, or one of the ten (10) principal stockholders of a corporation who was a licensee under this chapter or the laws of the state and whose license has been revoked.
d. A partnership or association, one of whose members was a licensee under this chapter or the laws of the state and whose license was revoked.
e. A corporation, one of whose officers, members of the governing board, or ten (10) principal stockholders was a licensee under the provisions of this chapter or the laws of the state and whose license has been revoked.
f. An association or partnership, one of whose members was a member of a partnership or association licensed under the provisions of this chapter or the laws of the state and whose license has been revoked.
g. A partnership or association, one of whose members 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 or the laws of the state and whose license has been revoked.
h. A corporation, one of whose officers, members of the governing board, or ten (10) principal stockholders was a member of a partnership or association licensed under the provisions of this chapter or the laws of the state whose license was revoked.
i. A corporation, one whose officers, members 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 rules of this chapter or the laws of the state and whose license was revoked.
4. Any officer, agent or employee of any distillery, winery, brewery, or any wholesaler or jobber of liquor or malt beverages.
5. Any person who does not hold a city retail beer license for said premises.
6. Any person licensed under the laws of the state as a bartender and whose permit as a bartender has been revoked.
B. Restriction On Issuance Of Multiple Licenses: No person shall be granted more than one license in the city for any one year; and no partnership, association or corporation holding a license under this chapter shall have as a member, officer or stockholder any person who has any financial interest of any kind in, or is a member of, another partnership or association or an officer of another corporation holding a license in the city for the same year; provided, that this section shall not prevent any person, firm or corporation owning two (2) or more buildings on connected property in the city from making application for and receiving licenses permitting the sale of liquor by the drink in such building.
C. Sales On Ground Floor Level: A license shall be issued only to an applicant for a premises where the business of retail sale of liquor by the drink to the general public shall be conducted on the ground level floor of any building. (1991 Code § 5.04.050)