Chapter 4 - Liquor
Division 6 - Restriction of License
SEC. 4.6 RESTRICTION OF LICENSE. No license shall be issued or reissued to any applicant or to any applicant employing a resident agent, which applicant, including any participating partner of a partnership applicant, any board member or officer of a corporation or other association applicant, any person who owns an interest of 5% or more in the applicant entity including any person who owns a 5% or more interest in an entity which owns a 5% or more interest in an applicant entity or resident agent, who is:
- A person not 21 years old or who is under any legal disability.
- A person who is not of good character and reputation in
the community in which he resides.
- A person who has been convicted of a felony under any federal
or state law unless the Commissioner determines, after investigation,
that such person has been sufficiently rehabilitated to warrant
the public trust.
- A person who has been convicted of being the keeper or is
keeping a house of ill fame.
- A person who has been convicted or pandering or other crime
or misdemeanor opposed to decency and morality within the last
three (3) years.
- A person whose license issued under this Chapter has been
revoked for cause.
- A person who at the time of application for renewal of any
license issued hereunder would not be eligible for such license
upon a first application.
- A co-partnership, unless all of the members of such co-partnership
shall be qualified to obtain a license.
- A corporation, if any stockholder owning in the aggregate
more than five percent (5%) of the stock of such corporation
would not be eligible to receive a license hereunder for any
reason.
- A person who has been convicted of a violation of any federal
or state law concerning the manufacture or sale of alcoholic
liquor, after the passage of this Chapter, or shall have forfeited
his bond by failure to appear in court to answer charges for
any such violation.
- A person who does not own the premises for which a license
is sought or does not have a lease thereon for the full period
for which the license is to be issued.
- Any law enforcing public official, the mayor or member of
the Town Council. No Town regular employee and no member of
the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners shall be interested
in any way, either directly or indirectly, in the manufacture,
sale or distribution of alcoholic liquor within the Town’s boundaries.
- Any person, association or corporation not eligible for
a state retail liquor dealer’s license.
- Any person who fails to furnish or falsely furnishes information
or who fails to make or falsely makes statements required in
the application for license as set forth in this Chapter.
- Any person convicted of a violation of selling or furnishing alcohol to a minor within the preceding five (5) years.