Ordinance No. 0993 05-18-1992❑RDINANCE N0. 993
AN ❑RDINANCE RECODIFYING THE FRIDLEY CITY CODE,
CHAPTER 603 ENTITLED "INTOXICATING LIQUDR", BY ADDING
603.05.04, TD SECTIDN 603.05, "FEES" AND RENUMBERING
THE REMAINING SECTIDNS CONSECUTIVELY, AND AMENDING
SECTIDN 603.09.01, "PLACES INELIGIBLE"
The City Council of the City of Fridley does hereby ordain as follows:
603.05. FEES
1. The annual license fee and expiration date shall be as provided in Chapter 11
of this Code.
2. The annual license fee shall be paid in full before the applicant for a
license is accepted. All fees shall be paid into the General Fund of the City.
Upon rejection of any application for a license, or upon withdrawal of
application before approval of the issuance by the City Council, the license fee
shall be refunded to the applicant except where rejection is for a willful
misstatement in the license application.
3. The fee for an "on-sale" license granted after the commencement of the
license year shall be pro-rated on a monthly basis.
4. The fee may be paid in two installments if the license is for a full twelve
[12] month period. The first half of the fee shall be due and payable with the
original application. For a renewal license fee, the fee will be paid with the
renewal application sixty [60] days prior to the expiration of the existing
license in accordance with Section 603.07.02. The second half shall be due and
payable by September 3❑ of each year. If the fee is not received in accordance
with this section, the non-payment would be cause for immediate and automatic
suspension.
5. When the
occupancy, the
license period
City Council or
sooner.
license is for premises where the building is not ready for
time fixed for computation of the license fee for the initial
shall be ninety [90] days after approval of the license by the
upon the date the building is ready for occupancy, whichever is
6. No transfer of a license shall be permitted from place to place or person to
person without complying with the requirements of an original application, except
as provided by Section 603.05.9 and except where a new application is filed for a
transfer of license from place to place and is for premises where the building
was not ready for occupancy at the time of the original application and the new
application is filed within ninety [90] days after approval of the original
license by the City Council but before a Certificate of ❑ccupancy for the
original location has been issued, no additional license fee is required and the
investigating fee shall be as specified in Section 603.05.8. [Ref. 579]
7. No part of the fee paid for any license shall be refunded, except in
accordance with this Section.
8. At the time of each original application for a license, the applicant shall
pay in full an investigating fee. For a single person, the investigating fee
shall be $200.00. For a corporation, partnership or other association, the
investigation fee shall be $400.00. No investigating fee shall be refunded.
9. At any time that an additional investigation is required because of a change
in ownership or control of a corporation or because of an enlargement,
alteration, or extension of premises previously licensed, or because of a
transfer from place to place which transfer comes within the exception expressed
in 603.05.5, the licensee shall pay an additional investigating fee in the amount
of $50.00.
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10. Where a new application is filed as a result of incorporation by an existing
licensee and the ownership control and interest in the license are unchanged, no
additional license fee will be required.
11. Where approval has been granted as provided by this Chapter, for the
transfer of a license from person to person and where the successor licensee has
paid the fee for the balance of the license year, then the transferring license
holder shall have refunded to it on a pro-rata basis, that portion of the license
fee which represents the unused portion of the license year. However, this
provision does not prevent the City from charging to the successor license holder
an additional investigation fee as provided in Section 603.05.07. [Ref. 849]
603.09. PLACES INELIGIBLE
1. No license shall be granted or renewed for operation on any premises on which
financial claims of the State are due, delinquent or unpaid.
PASSED AND ADOPTED BY THE CITY CDUNCIL ❑F THE CITY ❑F FRIDLEY THIS 18TH DAY ❑F
MAY, 1992.
WILLIAM J.NEE - MAYDR
ATTEST:
SHIRLEY A. HAAPALA - CITY CLERR
First Reading: May 4, 1992
Second Reading: May 18, 1992
Publication: May 26, 1992