Upon the filing of an application prescribed in the preceding section, and if said application is accompanied by the evidence thereby required and upon payment of the required license fee, the city treasurer shall immediately deliver said application and accompanying documents to the city clerk who shall, in turn, submit the same to the city council at its next regular meeting.
The council may, in its discretion and if deemed in the best interest of the city, refuse such license; provided, however, that the council shall not decline to issue a license to any applicant without first, upon five (5) days' notice thereof, granting to such applicant a public hearing.
The decision of the Council concerning application to sell alcoholic beverages in the City shall be final and nonreviewable in any court. Upon refusal of the Council to grant said license, the license fee paid by the applicant and all documents filed by the applicant, other than said application, shall be returned to the applicant.
If the application is approved, the City Clerk shall immediately issue and deliver to the applicant a license to sell alcoholic beverages at the same premises for which said license was applied for as provided in this section.
Such license shall be posted in a conspicuous place on the premises in respect to which it is issued and shall be exhibited to any member of the Police Department of this City whenever the same is requested. Every license issued under the provisions of this chapter is separate and distinct, and no person, except the licensee therein named, shall exercise any of the privileges granted thereunder, and all licenses are applicable only to the premises in respect to which they are issued; provided, however, that a change of premises of any license may be made on application to the Council, accompanied by satisfactory evidence of the consent of the Montana Department of Revenue to such change of place of premises of the license by it issued under said act. (Ord. 472, 10-15-2001)