(A) Any person or persons desiring to obtain a license to sell alcoholic liquors at retail shall file with the State Liquor Control Commission. The Commission shall then notify the Municipal Clerk by registered or certified mail. The governing body shall then meet and determine the desirability of the application and report its recommendation for approval or denial of the application in writing to the State Liquor Control Commission within 45 days of receipt from the State Liquor Control Commission.
(B) The governing body may examine, or cause to be examined, under oath, any applicant; examine, or cause to be examined, the books and records of any such applicant; hear testimony; and take proof for its information in the performance of its duties.
(C) For the purpose of obtaining any of the information desired, the governing body may authorize the Municipal Clerk or the Municipal Attorney to act on its behalf.
(D) The governing body shall fix a time and place at which a hearing will be held.
(E) Notice of the time and place of such hearing shall be published in a legal newspaper in, or of general circulation in, the municipality one time not less than seven nor more than 14 days before the time of the hearing. Such notice shall include, but not be limited to, a statement that all persons desiring to give evidence before the governing body in support of or in protest against the issuance of such license may do so at the time of the hearing. Such hearing shall be held not more than 21 days after the receipt of notice from the Commission.
(F) After such hearing, the governing body shall cause to be entered in the minute record of its proceedings a resolution recommending either issuance or refusal of such license. The Municipal Clerk shall thereupon mail to the Commission by first class mail, postage prepaid, a copy of the resolution which shall state the cost of the published notice.
(1999 Code, § 10-606)