(a) Any person desiring a license under this chapter shall apply to the City Clerk as provided in Chapter 802. Such application shall contain the names, residences and ages of all parties interested in such business. Such application shall further state the following:
(1) The former residence and business of each such party, and whether or not any of the parties have been convicted of a felony or misdemeanor, and if so, what offense, when and in what court;
(2) The location of the premises where such business is to be located or conducted; and
(3) Whether or not such business is to be conducted in connection with some other kind of business, and if so, the nature of the other business.
(b) Such application shall be signed and acknowledged before a notary public or other officer authorized to administer oaths in the City.
(c) Such application shall be accompanied by a license fee as specified in the Business License Fee Schedule.
(d) All such applicants shall be at least twenty-one years of age and citizens of the United States.
(e) Such application shall not be considered and no license shall be granted unless a petition is filed with the application, signed by at least sixty-five percent of the residents within a radius of 500 feet of any proposed location, requesting that the license be issued. There shall be attached to such petition an affidavit signed by the party circulating the same, which affidavit shall be in the following form:
STATE OF MICHIGAN )
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COUNTY OF WAYNE )
The undersigned, being duly sworn, deposes and says that the signatures upon the foregoing petition were obtained by him (or her); that the signatures are the signatures of the persons purporting to sign the same; that the undersigned verily believes that the signers of such petition are residents within the radius of 500 feet of any proposed location.
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Signature
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
______ day of ________________, 19__.
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, Notary Public
Wayne County, Michigan
My commission expires ________
(1974 Code § 7.302)