On receipt of an application for any license, the Clerk-Treasurer shall transmit the same together with license bond and copy of receipt for license fee to the Chief of Police or other department responsible therefor, who shall cause investigation to be made of the qualifications of the applicant and the Clerk-Treasurer shall determine whether the applicant has complied with all requirements of the ordinance under which the license is to be issued and which requirements are prerequisites to the issuance of the license. Unless the division of the ordinance pursuant to which the license is to be issued requires issuance of the license by the Council, the Clerk-Treasurer shall issue license upon determination that such prerequisites have been complied with, but if he or she shall have determined that such prerequisites have not been complied with, he or she shall deny the application for issuance of the license. If any ordinance shall require issuance of a license by the Council, the Clerk-Treasurer shall refer the application, together with a report of the investigation and determination with respect to the applicant and his or her compliance with the said requirements of the ordinance, to the Council. The Council shall thereupon consider the said report and findings and may grant or deny the license. The applicant for any license which has been denied by the Clerk-Treasurer may appeal the decision of the Clerk-Treasurer to the Council by filing, with the Clerk-Treasurer within ten days after receipt of notice of such denial, a request for review by the Council of such determination by the Clerk-Treasurer. The Clerk-Treasurer shall thereupon refer said request to the Council at its next regular meeting, at which time the Council shall hear the applicant and review the determination of the Clerk-Treasurer and may grant or deny such license.
(1992 Code, § 400:21)