(A) All licenses issued under this chapter shall be effective for only one year commencing with the date of approval by the issuing authority or Council. An application for the renewal of an existing license shall be submitted to the issuing authority at least 30 calendar days prior to the expiration date of the license.
(B) Within 20 calendar days of receipt by the issuing authority of a fully completed renewal application, the issuing authority shall verify any and all of the information requested of the applicant in the renewal application, including the ordering of criminal background checks, and shall conduct any necessary investigation to assure compliance with this chapter. No later than ten calendar days after the completion of the renewal application verification and investigation by the issuing authority, as prescribed herein, the issuing authority shall issue a renewal license unless one or more of the following conditions exist:
(1) The applicant is a minor at the time the renewal application is submitted;
(2) The applicant failed to supply all of the information requested on the renewal application;
(3) The applicant gave false, fraudulent, or untruthful information on the renewal application;
(4) The sexually oriented business was found in the immediately preceding license year to have violated the license restrictions prescribed in this chapter;
(5) The sexually oriented business does not meet the zoning requirements prescribed in Ch. 153 of this code;
(6) The premises licensed as a sexually oriented business is currently licensed by the city as a tanning facility, tattoo establishment, pawnshop, therapeutic massage enterprise, or an establishment licensed to sell alcoholic beverages;
(7) The applicant has had a conviction of any crime listed in § 116.20(A)(5) of this code; or
(8) The applicant has had a sexually oriented business license revoked within a one-year period immediately preceding the date the renewal application was submitted.
(C) If the issuing authority denies a renewal application, the issuing authority shall notify the applicant in accordance with § 116.17(B) of this code and the notice shall, in addition, state the grounds for the denial.
(D) After the denial of a renewal application by the issuing authority, the applicant may appeal the issuing authority’s determination to the Council in accordance with § 116.17(B) of this code or by immediately challenging the determination in a court of law. If the city denies renewal of a license under this chapter, the applicant shall not be issued a license under this chapter for one year from the date of the denial. If, subsequent to the denial, the city finds that the basis for the denial of the renewal license has been corrected or abated, the applicant may be granted a license if at least 90 days have elapsed since the date the denial became final.
(1997 Code, § 33.10)