No license nor any renewal of the same shall be granted for any business, exhibition or occupation, which is a public nuisance or which has been so conducted as to a public nuisance. A license or a renewal thereof may be refused because the business, exhibition or occupation is apt to become a public nuisance, or is, apt to be in any way detrimental to the public interest, or that the applicant therefor is a person unfit to be trusted with the privileges granted by said license. No person who has been once refused a license, or who has failed to prosecute his or her application therefor to a hearing before the Board of Supervisors, as herein provided, shall be granted a license for the same business, occupation or exhibition except upon order of the Board of Supervisors. Any applicant for a license may be examined under oath to determine who is the real party in interest in the business, occupation or exhibition for which a license is sought, and if the Board of Supervisors is satisfied that the application is not in the interest of the party in whose name the application is made it may refuse to grant the license, and if found to be in the interest of one who has already been refused a license, it may treat the application as though made by the real party in interest, and the application shall have the same effect against any future application as if it had been made in the name of the real party in interest.
(Ord. 474, passed - -1939; Am. Ord. 649, passed - -1950; Am. Ord. 1522, passed - -1969)