(A) An initial applicant for a permit under the provisions of this subchapter shall file with the City’s Finance and Administration Department a written application on a form provided for that purpose which shall be signed and verified by the applicant, who shall be the proprietor of the business sought to be licensed. A separate application must be filed for each location sought to be permitted.
(B) The following information is required in the application:
(1) The name, age, address, telephone number and residence of each applicant and if there be more than one and they are partners, the partnership name, address or, if doing business under an assumed name, the name under which the business is intended to be conducted;
(2) The name and address of each person interested or to become interested in the business for which the permit is sought, together with the nature of that interest, and if the applicant is a corporation, the names, addresses and ages of each officer, director and managerial employee, and the state under the laws of which the corporate applicant is incorporated; (The City’s License Inspector may, at his or her discretion, require also the names of all stockholders.)
(3) The premises for which a permit is sought, stating the street and number, if the premises has a street number, and otherwise such a description as will reasonably indicate the location of the premises; (The applicant shall also state the nature of the interest in the premises and the name, age and address of any other person, either as principal or associate, who is interested with the applicant, either in the premises or in the business to be licensed.)
(4) (a) A statement that neither the applicant nor any other person referred to in this section has been convicted of any felony, within two years preceding his or her application; and that he or she has not had any similar permit issued to him or her revoked for cause within two years prior to the date of his or her application; (It shall be the duty of the City’s Police Department, through its Chief of Police, to investigate the criminal record of the applicant, if any, before affixing his or her signature of approval to the application. His or her signature shall constitute verification that to the best of his or her knowledge at the time of initial application the applicant has not violated any of the provisions of this section.)
(b) If the Chief of Police shall find such a violation of this section to exist, he or she shall immediately notify the City’s Finance and Administration Department of the same and refuse to sign the application. Such shall be sufficient grounds for denial of the requested permit.
(c) In the event that the applicant shall, at any time, be found to have made any false statement or material omission on the application, the same shall constitute grounds for immediate revocation of the license or permit issued hereunder.
(5) The name, address and phone number of the manager or operator of the premises to be permitted if the person is not the proprietor;
(6) (a) The signatures of not less than 10 owner/occupiers of real estate parcels within a radius of 200 feet of the place in which the game room shall be operated signifying their consent or acquiescence to the operation of the business; provided, however, that, if there are less than 10 owner/occupiers of real estate parcels located within such radius, then the application shall contain the signatures of not less than 2/3 of all the owner/occupiers of real estate parcels within the prescribed distance.
(b) An owner/occupier of a real estate parcel under this section shall be construed as 1 individual person who is vested the ownership or title or partial ownership or title to the real estate parcel within the prescribed radius and who is also an actual occupier living within the residence or structure located upon the real estate parcel within the prescribed radius. Any owner of a real estate parcel within the prescribed radius who does not actually reside upon the parcel or any occupier of the residence or structure upon the parcel who does not own or partially own the same shall not qualify as an appropriate signer on the application.
(c) It is imperative that the conditions set forth above shall be met. There shall only be 1 individual person (owner/occupier) permitted to sign for each real estate parcel within the prescribed radius. A husband and wife or any joint owners of a parcel of real estate shall be considered as 1 individual person under this section and shall be permitted to sign only once as the owner/occupier for the entire parcel of real estate located within the prescribed radius.
(d) Furthermore, any person or persons who may own more than 1 parcel of real estate within the prescribed radius shall be expressly prohibited from signing more than once on any application regardless of the total number of parcels of real estate he or she may own within the prescribed radius.
(e) The measurement of the prescribed radius, that being 200 feet, shall be taken in a straight line from and to the nearest points of the respective properties.
(7) The signature of the owner/occupier of the premises where the game room shall be operated;
(8) If, after a permit has been issued, there is a change in any of the facts required to be set forth in the application, a verified supplemental statement, in writing, giving notice of the change shall be filed with the City’s Finance and Administration Department within 10 days after the change. The word “change,” with reference to corporate licensees, is construed to include any change of directors or officers of the corporation or a change in ownership of stock whereby any person secures 10% of the outstanding stock or effects a transfer of the percentage of stock; transfer of more than 10% of the total stock shall require a new license;
(9) Other information as the City’s Finance and Administration Department may require; and (Any information shall be conclusively presumed to be correct and shall be deemed material in any subsequent prosecutions.)
(10) Advertising and signature requirements under these provisions shall be required of all initial permit applicants and for all transfers but shall not apply to permit renewals. The City’s Finance and Administration Department may refuse to approve issuance or renewal of a permit for failure to comply with any of the above-stated provisions.
(1995 Code, § 5.36.070)