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Section 3. 1. License Required. It shall be unlawful for any Person to sell or offer for sale licensed products without first having obtained a license to do so from the City of Gem Lake. 2. Application. An application for a license to sell licensed products shall be made on a form provided by the City Clerk of the City of Gem Lake and shall be submitted to the City Clerk along with fees as required by this Ordinance. The application shall contain the full name of the applicant, the applicants title as part of the Retail Establishment, the name of the Retail Establishment for which the license is sought, the applicant’s residential and Retail Establishment addresses and telephone numbers, a complete list of all officers, owners, and/or shareholders of the Retail Establishment and the owners, officers and/or shareholders residential addresses and telephone numbers. 1. Moveable Place of Business. The City shall not process any application received from a Moveable Place of Business for a license in accordance with this Ordinance and said application shall be immediately returned to the Applicant with a notice that said Applicant is ineligible for a license in accordance with Section 4.1.6 of this Ordinance. 3. Procedures for Review of Application. Upon receipt of an application by the City, the Administrator shall employ the following procedures in the issuance of the license: 1. Complete Application. The City Clerk shall review all information contained in any application received to determine that same is complete and, if found incomplete, shall return the application to the Applicant with notice of the information necessary to make the Application complete. 2. Investigation. Upon receipt of a complete application, the Administrator shall forward same to the City’s law enforcement agency within seven (7) days for a background investigation of the Applicant and the Retail Establishment and it’s officers and owners, said background investigation to be completed within ten (10) days at which time the results of the background check shall be provided to the Administrator. 4. Action. Upon receipt of the background investigation, the Administrator shall advise the City Clerk to place consideration of the Application and approval or denial by the City of Gem Lake Council on the agenda of the next meeting of said Council. 5. License Fees. No license shall be issued in accordance with this Ordinance until the appropriate fee shall be paid in full, said fees being as authorized in Minnesota Session Laws 1997, Chapter 227 and as established in the City’s adopted Fee Schedule, from time to time, amended. 1. Partial Term Fees. Fees prescribed for issuance of a license in accordance with this Ordinance shall not be prorated when an application is received at a time that would provide an initial term following approval of less than one (1) calendar year. 6. Term of License. All licenses issued under this Ordinance shall be valid for the term of one (1) calendar year commencing on the first day of January and ending on the 31st day of December. 1. Partial Term. If an original application is received and subsequently approved during a calendar year, the term of license shall not extend beyond the end of the calendar year in which the application was approved. 7. Transfers of License. All licenses issued in accordance with this Ordinance shall be valid only on the premises of the Retail Establishment for which the license was issued and only for the person to whom the license was issued. Any change in ownership of the Retail Establishment for which the license was