(A) The Code Enforcement Officer of the city shall cause to be kept, in his or her office, an accurate record of every application received and acted upon together with all other information and data pertaining thereto and all certificates of registration issued under the provisions of this chapter and of the denial of applications. Applications for certificates shall be numbered in consecutive order as filed, and every certificate issued, and any renewal thereof shall be identified with the duplicate number of the application, upon which it was issued.
(B) The Code Enforcement Officer shall cause an investigation to be made of each applicant and shall make a written report of the result of each investigation and shall keep the report along with the application available for public inspection.
(C) No certificate of registration shall be issued to any person who has been convicted of the commission of a felony under the laws of the state or any other state or federal law of the United States, within five years of the date of the application; nor to any person who has been convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, nor to any person whose certificate or registration issued hereunder has previously been revoked, as herein provided.
(D) The certificate of registration shall be issued by the city 14 days after application is made. If the application is rejected for any of the above mentioned reasons the city shall notify the applicant of the same together with written reasons for the denial by certified mail, return receipt requested, at the applicants' last known address.
(`90 Code, § 8.32.050) (Ord. 75-28, passed - -)