(A) No retailer's license shall be issued to a person who is a holder of a public office, either appointive or elective, or who is a public employee, either national state city or county. It shall be unlawful for any such person to have any interest in such retail business, directly or indirectly, either proprietary or by means of any loan mortgage or lien or to participate in the profits of any such business.
(B) Applicants for certificate who have criminal record. No certificate of good moral character for the manufacture or sale at wholesale or retail of alcoholic beverages or for the manufacture or vinting of wine shall be issued to any person (or if the applicant is a partnership, any partner, or if the applicant is a corporation any stockholder), who, within ten years preceding the application for such certificate of good moral character, has been convicted of any felony or of any offense under the laws of the state or of the United States prohibiting the sale, possession, transportation, storage or otherwise handling of intoxicating liquors or who has during such period been engaged in business alone or with others, in violation of such laws.
(C) No manufacturer, brewer or wholesaler shall have any interest in the business or building containing licensed premises of any other person having a license hereunder, or in the fixture of any such person.
(D) No retailer, or any employee thereof, engaged in the sale of intoxicating liquor shall be a person under the age of 18 years, and it shall be unlawful for any retailer to employ any person under 18 years of age for the physical storage, sale or distribution of intoxicating liquor, or to permit any such person under that age on its place of business to engage in the storage, sale or distribution of alcoholic beverages.
(E) No retailer shall employ, in the storage, sale or distribution of alcoholic beverages, any person who, within ten years prior to the date of his or her employment, shall have been convicted of a felony involving moral turpitude and, in case an employee should be so convicted, he or she shall immediately be discharged; provided, however that this subsection (E) shall not apply to any person who has been so convicted, but whose rights of citizenship have been restored, or judgment of infamy has been removed by a court of competent jurisdiction.
(2011 Code, § 8-109) (Ord. 21-30, passed 12-20-2021)