(A) Upon the filing of an application for license which does not require approval of the City Council the license officer shall, upon completion of any required investigation and being satisfied that the applicant has met all the requirements for the license applied for and is eligible for the license and upon payment of the proper license fee, issue the license applied for. The license officer shall refuse to issue any license when it appears to him or her that the requirements for issuance of the license have not been met and the applicant is not eligible therefor, and he or she shall return to the applicant those papers as he or she may have filed concurrently with his or her application.
(B) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the license officer from making appropriate investigation to determine the eligibility of an applicant, and he or she may call upon appropriate city officers to assist him or her for that purpose.
(1973 Code, § 15-7)