(A) Upon receipt of a fully completed application for a permit hereunder the Chief of Police shall issue a solicitor and canvasser's permit within the three business days next following the date of application, exclusive of Sundays and legal holidays unless he shall find any one of the following:
(1) The applicant has provided false information upon the application; or
(2) The applicant has been adjudicated guilty of having violated any provision of this subchapter within the 12 months next preceding the application date; or
(3) The applicant has been adjudicated guilty of a crime of violence, theft, moral turpitude, narcotics, breaking and entering, sexual assault or violation of the criminal gambling or weapons provisions of Rhode Island law, federal law or the laws of any other state, within five years next preceding the application date.
(B) If the Chief of Police shall find that any one or more of the above conditions obtains he shall endorse the application with the word "denied" over his dated signature across its face and append thereto a brief statement of his reasons for denying the permit.
(Ord. passed 3-16-92; Am. Ord. 09-16, passed 9-8-09)