A. The Chief of Police shall either approve or deny the issuance of the permit to the applicant within forty-five days of the date that the copy of the application is submitted to him. The Chief of Police may deny a permit on any of the following grounds:
1. The operation will not comport with the peace, health, safety, convenience and general welfare of the public;
2. The application is not complete in that all requested information is not supplied;
3. The operation has been or is a public nuisance;
4. The operation would be in violation of a City ordinance, state law or federal law;
5. The applicant has been found guilty, pled guilty and/or pled no contest to a crime of moral turpitude;
6. The applicant made a false, misleading or fraudulent statement of fact in his application for a permit;
7. The operation by the applicant will be carried on in a building, structure and location which does not comply with and meet all of the health, zoning, fire and safety requirements and standards of the laws of the state and ordinances of the City;
8. The applicant, his employee, agent, or any person connected or associated with the applicant as a partner, director, officer, stockholder, associate, or manager has allowed or permitted acts of sexual misconduct or lewd conduct to be committed within prior or present business operations;
9. The applicant has within the year prior to the application date willfully violated any provisions of this Chapter or of the City licensing provisions in Title 5.
B. The Chief of Police shall notify the applicant of the grant of a permit, or of the denial of his or her application for a permit and the reasons therefor. Service of such notice shall be made personally or by certified mail. The notice shall include or be accompanied by a statement that the applicant may request a hearing before the City Manager by filing with the City Clerk a written request thereof within ten days after service upon him of the notice of the denial of his application and that failure to do so will constitute a waiver of his or her right to a hearing.
(Ord. MC-1484, 4-18-18; Ord. MC-576, 1-08-87; Ord. 3542, 12-11-75; Ord. 3470, 12-17-74)