(A) (1) The City Clerk shall cause to be published in a legal newspaper in this city, one time between February 20 and March 5 of each year, individual notice of the right of automatic renewal of each retail liquor and beer license for which provisions are made in Neb. RS 53-124(5), in the following form.
NOTICE OF RENEWAL OF RETAIL LIQUOR LICENSE |
Notice is hereby given that pursuant to Section 53-135.01, the liquor license may be automatically renewed for one year from May 1,______, for the following retail liquor licensee, to-wit: |
(Name of Licensee, address of licensed premises) |
Notice is hereby given that a written protest to the issuance of automatic renewal of license may be filed by any resident of the City of Ponca on or before March 15,_____, in the office of the City Clerk; that in the event protests are filed by three or more such persons, hearing will be had to determine whether continuation of said license should be allowed. |
(Name) |
City Clerk |
(2) The City Clerk shall file or cause to be filed with the state’s Liquor Control Commission proof of publication of said notices on or before March 12 of each year.
(Prior Code, § 4-315)
(B) In the event written protests are filed with the City Clerk by three or more residents of this city against the automatic renewal of a license, the City Clerk shall present the same to the Mayor and City Council at their next meeting, and thereupon, they shall by resolution direct the licensee to submit an application in the same manner as he or she would be required to do for an original license, and the Chief of Police shall forthwith serve said resolution on said licensee by delivering to him or her personally a true and certified copy thereof. Upon receipt by the City Clerk from the state’s Liquor Control Commission of the notice and copy of the application, the same procedure shall be followed as is provided for in the case of an application for an original license.
(Prior Code, § 4-316)