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Section 3-69 Licenses limited to one per family or corporation.

(a) No person and/or member of his family and/or corporation shall own, hold or control any interest whatsoever in more than one (1) license in the city to engage in the business of selling liquor by the package at retail.

(b) As used in this section, an interest in the license shall be deemed to exist if the person involved is the outright owner of the license, a co-owner of a license, a general or limited partner in a partnership which owns all or any part of a license, a stockholder in any corporation which owns all or any part of a license, an owner, a lessor, sublessor, or stockholder in any corporation owning or leasing, any real estate which is occupied by a retail liquor store, or shares in any income or corpus of any trust fund or estate having any interest in a retail liquor store.

(c) All applications for a license made on forms provided by the city clerk, whether original or for renewal, must be accompanied by a full and complete statement under oath of information relative to any and all interests, as hereinbefore defined in subsection (b), in retail liquor stores. This shall include the names and addresses of all persons interested in the ownership of the business of selling packaged liquor at retail, together with any interest each person or members of his family has in any other retail liquor store; the ownership of the land and building where such retail business is operated; the amount of rental paid for such land and building and the manner in which the same is determined and to whom and at what intervals it is paid; the name and address (by affidavit from owner, lessor or sublessor of such land and building) of all persons having any whole, partial, beneficial or any other interest in and to the land and building on and in which said retail liquor store is to be located; a copy of the proposed lease, and any other information requested by the police department or the city council pertinent to the application under investigation.

(Code 1958, 5-37(d); Ord. of 6-9-97, I)