5.04.050 License application procedures.
A. Applications—To Be Filed with City Clerk—Exception. All applications for licenses under the provisions of this title shall be filed with the city clerk.
B. Applications—Form—To Be Signed. All applications for licenses required by this license code shall be made upon forms to be furnished by the city clerk, signed by the applicant and duly verified before an officer authorized to administer oaths. The applicant shall provide photo identification that is acceptable to the city clerk, such as a Washington State driver’s license or identification card. If the applicant is a partnership, one of the partners must sign the application; if the applicant is a corporation, the application must be signed by an officer of the corporation; or if the applicant be a foreign corporation authorized to do business in the state, the application must be signed by the resident agent or local manager of said foreign corporation.
Such application shall contain the following information:
1. The kind of license applied for;
2. The true name, home address, telephone number and the age of the applicant;
3. The business name, business address, and telephone number of the establishment or proposed establishment;
4. Whether the applicant is a sole proprietorship, partnership or corporation. If a partnership, the application shall set forth names, addresses and telephone numbers of all persons, whether general or limited partners, sharing in the profits of said business and the respective ownership share of each. If a corporation, it shall set forth the name, residence address and telephone number of each of its officers and directors;
5. If the license being applied for involves operation of a motor vehicle, an abstract or abstracts of the applicant’s driving record showing at a minimum his/her past five years of driving history, to be provided at the applicant’s expense. The abstract(s) of driving record submitted under this section must be dated within fifteen days of the date the application is submitted to the city clerk;
6. How long applicant (if corporation, its officers, or if partnership, its partners) has resided in the city continuously for the last five years, and previous addresses during that period;
7. Whether the applicant or anyone owning an interest in the business or proposed business has ever been convicted of any crime, excluding minor traffic offenses. If so, state the crime, the name of the court in which the case was filed, the circumstances and the disposition of the case;
8. Two two-inch by two-inch color photographs of the applicant, or in the case of a firm, the party signing the application, taken within six months of the date of the application, showing only the full face of such applicants. The two two-inch by two-inch color photographs shall be provided at the applicant’s expense;
9. Such applicants, or party signing the application, shall be fingerprinted by the police department, and such fingerprints shall be retained in the application file, a copy of which will be forwarded to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Identification Bureau;
10. All assumed names or aliases which have been or are used by any person whose name appears on the application;
11. Such other information as the city clerk may reasonably require in connection with the application. (Ord. 3104-08 § 3, 2008; Ord. 295-74 Ch. 1 § 5, 1974.)