(A) All applications for license under this chapter shall be delivered to the Local Liquor Control Commissioner or his/her designee. It shall be the duty of the Local Liquor Control Commissioner to investigate and consider the application. For this purpose the Local Liquor Control Commissioner may enlist the aid of the Chief of Police and any other village officials or employees that he or she deems necessary to complete the investigation. The investigation shall include a background search via fingerprinting to be completed at the Tinley Park Police Department. The investigation may also include a credit check and review of any outstanding fees owed to the village. At any time during the pendency of an application the Local Liquor Control Commissioner shall have the right to compel the applicant to submit to any examination and to produce any books and records which, in the judgment of the Local Liquor Control Commissioner, are material to the determination of whether the applicant is qualified to receive a license under the provisions of this code, or whether the premises sought to be licensed are suitable for such purposes. The Local Liquor Control Commissioner shall also have the right to require the applicant to answer any charges made in any objection to the issuance of the license made by the Chief of Police, a prosecuting official, or by the sheriff or prosecuting attorney of the county relative to the same. The failure of any applicant to appear at the time and place fixed by the Local Liquor Control Commissioner for his or her examination or to produce books and records when requested, unless for good cause shown, shall be deemed to be an admission that the applicant is not qualified to receive a license and, therefore, a basis for denial of the license.
(B) Upon completion of the investigation, the Local Liquor Control Commissioner shall approve or disapprove the issuance of a license based on the application, provided, in the case of approval, that there exists an available license as set forth in § 112.22.
(Ord. 2021-O-086, passed 12-7-21)