(A) All applications for a license under this subchapter shall be delivered to the Local Liquor Control Commissioner. It shall be the duty of the Local Liquor Control Commissioner to investigate and consider all applications. For this purpose the Local Liquor Control Commissioner may enlist the aid of the Chief of Police and any other city officials or employees that he or she deems necessary to complete the investigation. The investigation shall include a background search and credit check. At any time during the pendency of any such application(s), the Local Liquor Commissioner shall have the right to compel the applicant to submit to any examination and to produce any books and records which, in the judgment of the Local Liquor Commissioner, are material to the determination of whether the applicant is qualified to receive a license or manage the business on the licensed premises (as the case may be) under the provisions of this code, or whether the premises sought to be licensed are suitable for such purposes. The Local Liquor Commissioner shall also have the right to require the applicant to answer any charges made in any objection to the issuance of the license made by the Chief of Police, a prosecuting official, or by the sheriff or prosecuting attorney of the county relative to the same. The failure of any applicant to appear at the time and place fixed by the Local Liquor Commissioner for his or her examination or to produce books and records when requested, unless for good cause shown, shall be deemed to be an admission that the applicant is not qualified to receive a license and/or not qualified to be a manager, as the case may be, and, therefore, a basis for denial of the license or disqualification of the proposed manager, as the case may be.
(B) Upon completion of the investigation, the Local Liquor Control Commissioner shall approve or disapprove the issuance of a license and/or designation of the manager based on the application(s), provided, in the case of approval, that there exists an available license as set forth in § 111.48.
(C) No license shall be issued to any person ineligible to receive the same by virtue of ILCS Ch. 235, Act 5, § 6-2, as amended.
(2000 Code, § 5.08.080) (Ord. 2007-02-0085O, passed 2-13-2007; Am. Ord. 2014-03-0488O, passed 3-25-2014)