(A) Display upon issuance. If the application is approved and the annual license fee is paid, the Chair shall provide a form of license setting forth the name of the licensee and the year for which the license is issued, and if authorizing the display of devices, the number of devices the licensee is authorized to display. Every licensee under the provisions of this subchapter shall exhibit the license at all times in a conspicuous place within the same location as that in which the devices are located; or in the case of a license for distribution, the license shall be affixed to the device itself. The Chair of the County Board or his or her authorized agents, or the Lake County Sheriff, or his or her duly authorized deputies, shall have the right to inspect premises or devices for the exhibition of the license without notice to the licensee.
(B) License period. The license period for all licenses issued hereunder shall be for one year from July 1 to June 30 of each year. No refund or rebate shall be made to any applicant whenever any license is denied, suspended, revoked, or surrendered for any reason, and no license fee shall be prorated for any portion of any year.
(C) Personal nature of licenses.
(1) A license shall be purely a personal privilege, valid for not to exceed one year after issuance unless sooner revoked as in this section provided, and shall not constitute property, nor shall it be subject to attachment, garnishment, or execution, nor shall it be alienable or transferable, voluntarily or involuntarily, or subject to being encumbered or hypothecated. Such license shall not descend by the laws of the testate or intestate devolution, but it shall cease, upon the death of the licensee.
(2) When the licensee is a partnership or corporation, the license shall terminate whenever there is a transfer of 50% or more of the ownership interest. Provided, however, that the provisions of this subsection (C)(2) and of subsection (C)(3) below shall not apply where the transfer of an ownership interest is made to a partner or to an officer or stockholder named on the original license application.
(3) Whenever there is a transfer of 50% of the ownership interest of a licensee, the licensee shall within ten days of the effective date of the transfer surrender the license issued to the Chair of the County Board. The licensee may make new application for license; and if the application and fee are submitted within ten days of the effective date of the transfer, the Chair may, at his or her discretion, issue an interim license. The interim license shall be valid until the new application shall be issued or denied, but in no event shall it be effective after the date at which the license surrendered would have expired.
(1977 Code, § 3:1) (Ord. passed 5-12-1998)