A. Specified: To receive a license to operate an adult regulated use, an applicant must meet the following standards:
1. If the applicant is an individual:
a. The applicant shall be at least twenty one (21) years of age.
b. The applicant shall not have been convicted of, or pleaded nolo contendere to, a felony or any crime involving moral turpitude, prostitution, obscenity or other crime of a sexual nature in any jurisdiction within five (5) years immediately preceding the date of the application.
c. The applicant shall not have been found to have previously violated this chapter or a substantially similar ordinance within five (5) years immediately preceding the date of the application.
2. If the applicant is a corporation:
a. All officers, directors and stockholders required to be named under this chapter shall be at least twenty one (21) years of age.
b. No officer, director or stockholder required to be named under this chapter shall have been convicted of, or pleaded nolo contendere to, a felony or any crime involving moral turpitude, prostitution, obscenity or other crime of a sexual nature in any jurisdiction within five (5) years immediately preceding the date of the application.
c. No officer, director or stockholder required to be named under this chapter shall have been found to have previously violated this chapter or a substantially similar ordinance within five (5) years immediately preceding the date of the application.
3. If the applicant is a partnership, joint venture or any other type of organization where two (2) or more persons have a financial interest:
a. All persons having a financial interest in the partnership, joint venture or other type of organization shall be at least twenty one (21) years of age.
b. No person having a financial interest in the partnership, joint venture or other type of organization shall have been convicted of, or pleaded nolo contendere to, a felony or any crime involving moral turpitude, prostitution, obscenity or other crime of a sexual nature in any jurisdiction within five (5) years immediately preceding the date of the application.
c. No person having a financial interest in the partnership, joint venture or other type of organization shall have been found to have violated any provision of this chapter or a substantially similar ordinance within five (5) years immediately preceding the date of the application.
B. Investigation: No license shall be issued unless the law enforcement agency serving the city has investigated the applicant's qualifications to be licensed. The results of that investigation shall be filed in writing with the city clerk no later than fourteen (14) days after the date of the application.
C. Location Restrictions: No license shall be issued for an adult regulated use if said use's proposed address is within one thousand feet (1,000') of any residentially zoned district or within two thousand five hundred feet (2,500') of any school, college, nursery school, childcare facility, church and religious facility, or any public park. (Ord. 1513, 9-7-2010)