(A) The Mayor, upon receipt of such application from the City Clerk, shall immediately cause an investigation to be made into the character of the applicant and of the premises named and described in the application for the purpose of determining the fitness and suitability of the premises for the conduct of the business from a public health and public safety standpoint.
(B) The Mayor may designate any officer or employee of the city to make the investigation. The officer or employee making investigation shall make a report to the Mayor within five days giving the result of the investigation, favorable or unfavorable. If the investigation discloses by satisfactory evidence that the applicant or applicants or its chief officer, if the applicant is a corporation, is or are of good character, that the premises where the business is to be carried on are proper and suitable from a public health and safety standpoint, and that all the provisions of this chapter have been complied with, the Mayor shall endorse his or her approval thereon.
(C) (1) The Mayor shall immediately notify the applicant of his or her approval. The applicant shall thereupon, within ten days, execute a bond with at least two good and sufficient sureties, or by a recognized and qualified bonding company, to the city, in the sum of $2,000, conditioned upon the faithful observance of all of the ordinances of the city, now or hereafter enacted during the continuance of the license, and any person aggrieved by the acts of any licensee hereunder may sue upon the bond and recover the damages as he or she shows himself or herself entitled to.
(2) If the bond furnished by applicant and the sureties thereon is good and sufficient and in proper legal form the Mayor shall approve the same, and the bond, when so approved, together with the application for a license hereunder endorsed as approved by the Mayor shall be, by him or her, returned to the office of the City Clerk.
(D) The City Clerk shall thereupon issue a license to the applicant for the purpose and time specified.
(Ord. 693, passed 5-3-1955)