Ordinance 2835-05 - Laserfiche WebLink

• "business and occupation taxes" assessed under Ordinance No. 3292, as amended, codified in Ch. 3.24 of the Everett Municipal Code. Section 9: Chapter 25, Section 11 of Ordinance No. 295-74 (EMC 5.100.110), which reads as follows: Grounds for refusing license. No license shall be granted to conduct, operate or manage any hotel,rooming house, lodging house, apartment house, or tenement house in the city to any person, firm or corporation, nor to the agent of any person, firm or corporation that has been convicted in any of the courts of the state or in any Federal Court under any of the provisions of the laws of the United States relating to prostitution, gambling, or the manufacture, possession, sale, barter, exchange, giving away, furnishing or otherwise disposing of or keeping intoxicating liquor, nor to the use of or handling of narcotic drugs. Be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: Grounds for denial, suspension or revocation of license. A. Failure to materially comply with the following requirements may be grounds for denial of any application for a license under this chapter: 1. Applicant must meet the general requirements for all licenses as set forth in this chapter; 2. Applicant must not have had a license issued under this chapter suspended multiple times within one year or revoked within five years of the date of application; 3. Applicant must not have been convicted of any felony or misdemeanor which directly relates to the specific occupation, trade, vocation, or business for which the license is being sought and the time elapsed since the conviction is less than ten years. B. The city clerk shall have the right to suspend or revoke any license issued under this chapter at any time on the following grounds: 1. That the license was procured by fraud or false representation of facts; 2. That the licensee or any of his or her servants, agents or employees while acting within the scope of their employment has violated or failed to comply with any of the provisions of the "license code"; 3. That licensee or any of his or her servants, agents or employees has been convicted of either a felony or misdemeanor and the crime for which he or she was convicted directly relates to the position of employment or to the specific occupation, trade, vocation, or business for which the license was issued and the time elapsed since the conviction is less than ten years; 4. The licensee, after being notified that one of his or her servants, agents or employees has been convicted of any criminal offense referenced under subsection A.3 of this section, continues to employ the person with the conviction; or 5. The licensee has materially falsified any record, document or information required to be kept or submitted to the city by this chapter. 5