An application for a license required by this chapter shall be submitted by the City Clerk to Council for consideration at its next regular or special meeting. At such hearing, the applicant or any party on his or her behalf may appear. If such application is approved, Council shall direct the City Clerk to immediately issue a license to the applicant. If, from examining such application and from other information within the knowledge of Council, it deems that the applicant is not suitable or proper to have such license, Council shall reject such application. All licenses shall be numbered in the order in which they are issued and shall state the location of such business, the dates of issuance and expiration of the license and the name of the licensee. No application, once refused, shall be considered by Council until at least six months have elapsed since prior rejection, unless the applicant can show that the reason for such rejection no longer exists.
(1974 Code § 7.303)