§ 3-32. Revocation, suspension or refusal to renew liquor license.

(a)

The city council may suspend, revoke or refuse to renew a license issued pursuant to this article, upon findings of fact, conclusions of law, and an order therewith, following a notice and hearing as hereinafter provided if it is not in the best interest of the city to allow operation under the existing license or if the licensee or his employees, or agents shall have been shown to be guilty of, to have violated or committed, or to be involved in, any of the following:

(1)

The licensee or any of the officers or the managing officer of the licensee is convicted of a crime involving a felony;

(2)

Any false, misleading or fraudulent statement of fact is present in the license application of the licensee or in any other document required by the city in conjunction therewith;

(3)

The licensee, or if the licensee is a corporation then the managing officer of such corporation, is not a qualified voter and a tax-paying citizen of the State of Missouri;

(4)

The licensee has violated any of the provisions of Chapter 3 of the General Ordinances of the City of Boonville, Missouri, relating to alcoholic beverages, the state liquor control law or its regulations as codified in the Code of State Regulations of the State of Missouri;

(5)

The licensee has no valid license from the state supervisor of liquor control;

(6)

The licensee has operated or allowed the licensed business to be operated in such a manner that the licensed business or its patrons offend the decency or senses of, or otherwise injure or endanger the comfort, repose, health or safety of others within a radius of 300 feet of the licensed business;

(7)

The licensee has not at all times kept an orderly place or house or the licensee has failed to properly control his or its customers. The licensee shall use good judgment in the sale of all beverages for which he or it requires a license under this article and shall not sell the same to Persons obviously intoxicated. If any customer becomes unruly or abusive, it shall be the duty of the licensee to call and fully cooperate with the police and other law-enforcement authority. The licensee shall take appropriate and necessary steps to supervise the premises immediately outside the licensed business, shall keep said premises free from litter, and shall not allow the premises to become a gathering location for the business's customers;

(8)

The licensee has failed to comply with Section 70-2.140(13) or (14) of the Code of State Regulations of the State of Missouri.

(b)

Notice of the hearing and the hearing will be conducted according to the procedures of Chapter 536, RSMo as they apply to cities of the third class, and the cause for the proposed revocation, suspension or refusal to renew a license shall be delivered to the licensee at the licensed business to any person in charge or employed at such licensed business.

(Code 1958, § 46.28; Ord. No. 3011, § 1, 7-1-91)