(a) Upon receipt of each application, the Village Administrator, Clerk, or highest elected official, as appropriate, shall have the Police Department, or other investigating authority, make and complete an investigation of the statements made in such registration.
(b) The investigating authority may refuse to register the applicant if it is determined, pursuant to the investigation above, that the application contains any material omission or materially inaccurate statement; complaints of a material nature have been received against the applicant by authorities in the last cities, villages, and towns, not exceeding three, in which the applicant conducted similar business; the applicant was convicted of a crime, statutory violation, or ordinance violation within the last five years, the nature of which is directly related to the applicant’s fitness to engage in direct selling; or the applicant failed to comply with any applicable provision of § 7-4-4(b).
(Prior Code, § 7-4-5)