Subd. 1. Investigation.
a. Initial applications. At the time of each original application for a license, the applicant shall also pay in full an investigation fee. The city shall investigate all facts set out in the application. All initial applications for a license shall be referred to the South Lake Minnetonka Police Department for verification and investigation of the facts set forth in the application. The Police Department shall make a written recommendation and report to the City Council. Such report shall include, but shall not be limited to, a list of all violations of federal, state, or city law committed by the applicant, officers, and directors, if the applicant is a corporation, and managers as disclosed in the application. Upon an initial application the Police Department shall also conduct a preliminary background and financial investigation of the applicant.
b. Renewal applications. All renewal applications shall be referred to the South Lake Minnetonka Police Department for verification and investigation of the matters set forth in the renewal application and determined by the City Administrator/City Clerk to require further investigation.
c. Investigation results. Without limiting the discretion of the City Council to deny a license application for other reasons, no license shall be issued if the results of the investigation show, to the satisfaction of the City Council, that issuance would not be in the public interest.
Subd. 2. The issuance of any license hereunder is and shall remain at the sole and absolute discretion of the City Council.
Subd. 3. All licenses shall be and are issued subject to conformance with all provisions of this chapter and all other applicable regulations, ordinances, laws and statutes.
Subd. 4. Each license issued hereunder shall be issued to the applicant only. Each such license shall be issued only for the premises described in the application and shall not be effective beyond the compact and contiguous space described therein.
(Ord. 441, passed 11-5-2007; Am. Ord. 554, passed 2-26-2018)