A retail license to sell alcoholic liquors, which the Council is legally empowered to revoke, may be either revoked or suspended by the City Council whenever it shall find, after notice and hearing as provided by law, that the holder of the license has violated any of the provisions of the Nebraska Liquor Control Act, or of this chapter, or rule or regulation of the state’s Liquor Control Commission, or for any 1 or more of the following causes:
(A) The licensee or his or her manager or agent in charge of the premises licensed has been convicted of or has pled guilty to a felony under the laws of the state or of any other state of the United States;
(B) The licensee or his or her manager or agent in charge of the premises licensed has been convicted of or has pled guilty to any felony, or gambling, pandering or any misdemeanor relating to decency and morality;
(C) The licensee or his or her manager or agent in charge of the premises licensed has been convicted of or pled guilty to violation of any federal or state law concerning the manufacture, possession or sale of alcoholic liquors;
(D) The licensee either swore falsely to any question in his or her application for the license, or has failed to comply with the statements and representations made by the answer to any question in the application, or has failed to perform in accordance with any other statement or representation to keep any promise, oral or written, made to the Council, in connection with the licensee’s request for the license;
(E) The licensee or his or her manager or agent in charge of the premises licensed has forfeited bond to appear in court to answer charges for any one of the violations of law or ordinances referred to in this section; and
(F) The licensee or his or her manager or agent has allowed any live person to appear, or had reasonable cause to believe that any live person would appear, in any licensed premises in a state of nudity, to provide entertainment, to provide service, to act as hostess, manager or owner, or to serve as an employee in any capacity. For the purposes of this division, the term
NUDITY shall mean the showing of any part of the human male or female genitals, pubic area or buttocks or the human female breast including the nipple or any portion below the nipple with less than a full opaque covering.
(Prior Code, § 4-27)
Statutory reference:
Suspension, cancellation or revocation of licenses, see Neb. RS 53-117.08, 53-134