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Section 3-67 Residency requirements; required information.

(a) No license for the retail sale of liquor by the package shall be granted to any applicant who, on the date on which the application is made, is not a resident of Thomas County and has not been a resident of Georgia for a period of one (1) year. Wholesalers and distillers are exempt from this residency provision.

The determination of whether an applicant meets the residency requirement shall be made by the city council in its sole discretion based upon information supplied by the chief of police, including, but not limited to, such matters as whether the applicant has purchased or rented a residence dwelling in the city, whether the applicant has registered to vote in the city, and whether the applicant has obtained a driver's license showing a residence in the city. When the applicant is a corporation, which may be a newly formed corporation, all officers and stockholders in such corporation, and all officers and stockholders in any corporation which holds stock in the applicant corporation, or any further extension of corporate interests, must meet the requirements contained in this paragraph. If the applicant is a partnership, the requirements contained in this subsection must be met by all partners, whether general or limited. All licensees selling packaged liquors must remain a resident of the city during tenure of the license under which packaged liquor is sold.

(b) All applicants including partners and stockholders having an interest in an applying corporation, or in any corporation having an interest in the applicant corporation, shall furnish all data, information and records pertinent to the application requested of them by the police department of the city, which shall include fingerprints, except in the case of any corporate stockholders when an officer of the corporation making the application shall be fingerprinted. Failure to furnish such data, information and records within thirty (30) days from the date of such request shall automatically serve to dismiss, with prejudice, the application. All applicants shall submit an executed version, for city purposes only as modified by the city clerk, of the personnel statement Form ATT-17, State of Georgia Department of Revenue, Alcohol Tax and Control Unit. The applicants, by filing an application, agree to produce for oral interrogation any person requested by the police department of the city and considered as being important in the ascertainment of the facts relative to such application and/or license issued under the terms of this division. The failure to produce such person within thirty (30) days after being requested to do so shall result in the automatic dismissal of any application pending under this division.

(Code 1958, 5-37(b); Ord. of 4-22-96(2), I; Ord of 1-30-02 (a))

(2002-3-67a, Amended, 01/30/2002, Prior Text)