The Township Clerk shall issue a license and an identification card to the applicant and the applicant’s employees unless the Clerk finds reason for denial including that the applicant’s license has previously been revoked. The license shall be no more than six months in term. The standards for denial of the application by the Township Clerk are as follows:
(A) The application is not completely filled out as required by § 113.19(A);
(B) The applicant’s computerized criminal history (CCH) shows convictions for activities that pose a threat or a danger to the residents of the township should a license be granted. By way of example, but not exclusively, the convictions would include reckless driving, drunk driving, disturbing the peace, assault and battery or simple assault, domestic violence, stalking, theft, dishonesty or deception, fraud, obstruction of justice, disorderly person, trespassing, window peeping, criminal sexual conduct, felonious assault, murder, assault with intent to commit any other crime, breaking and entering and/or any other violation of the Criminal Code of the state, United States Code and/or any other violation of the Criminal Code of the state, the United States Codes or local ordinances pertaining to criminal conduct;
(C) The product or services being offered violate any provision of federal, state or local laws, rules or regulations;
(D) The applicant proposes to use peddlers who are minors under the age of 14 years or, if between the ages of 14 and 17 years, do not have an approved copy of the State Department of Labor Form L52;
(E) Verification of any of the information required by § 113.19 shows the information provided by the applicant to be fraudulent, a misrepresentation or a false statement;
(F) An investigation through the Township Police Department or any other law enforcement agency shows a pattern and history of conduct which would justify a revocation of the applicant’s license under § 113.24;
(G) The applicant or any of the proposed employees of the applicant have a history of peddler’s and/or solicitor’s license/permit violations, revocations, or a history of ordinance violations regardless of whether they have resulted in conviction;
(H) Failure to pay the nonrefundable application fee;
(I) No license shall be issued to any applicant as a solicitor or peddler until the applicant shall have obtained the age of 18 years, except that a person between the ages of 12 and 18 years may be issued a license as a solicitor or peddler, if the applicant is accompanied by a sponsoring adult at both the time of applying for the license and at the actual time of selling the products; and
(J) Any other competent, material and substantial evidence indicating the applicant or any of the applicant’s proposed employees pose an apparent danger to the health, safety and welfare of the people of the township and/or the activity proposed to be licensed constitutes an apparent danger to the health, safety and welfare of the people of the township.
(Prior Code, § IV-5.08)