No license under this chapter will be issued to an applicant who is a natural person, a partnership if such applicant has any general partner or managing partner, a corporation or other organization if such applicant has any manager, proprietor or agent in charge of the business to be licensed, if the applicant:
(A) Is a minor at the time that the application is filed.
(B) Has been convicted of any crime directly related to the occupation licensed as prescribed by M.S. § 364.03, subd. 2, and has not shown competent evidence of sufficient rehabilitation and present fitness to perform the duties of a licensee under this chapter as prescribed by M.S. § 364.03, subd. 3.
(C) Is not of good moral character or repute.
(D) The applicant or licensee has been convicted of receiving stolen property, sale of stolen property or a controlled substance, burglary, robber, theft, damage, or trespass to property, any law or ordinance regulating the business of pawnbroker or any other law or ordinance related to the fitness of the applicant to operate the proposed business within the last ten years of the license application date.
(E) The applicant or licensee has had a pawnbroker license revoked within ten years of the license application date.
(F) The taxes, assessments or other financial claims of the city or the state on the licensee’s business premises are delinquent and unpaid.
(G) The applicant’s present license was issued conditioned upon the applicant making specified improvements to the licensed premises or the property of the licensed premises, which improvements have not been completed.
(Ord. 0802, passed 3-11-08)