Section 110. Information to be requested in applications for licenses or permits  


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  • 1. The following  shall  be  the  information  required  on  an
      application for a license or permit:
        (a) A statement of identity as follows:
        (i)  If  the  applicant  is an individual, his name, date and place of
      birth, citizenship, permanent home address, telephone number and  social
      security  number, as well as any other names by which he has conducted a
      business at any time.
        (ii) If the applicant is a corporation,  the  corporate  name  of  the
      applicant, its place of incorporation, its main business address (and if
      such  main  business address is not within the state, the address of its
      main place of business within the state), other names by  which  it  has
      been  known or has conducted business at any time, its telephone number,
      its  federal  employer  identification  number,  and  the  names,  ages,
      citizenship, and permanent home addresses of its directors, officers and
      its  shareholders  (except  that  if there be more than ten shareholders
      then those shareholders holding ten percent or more of any class of  its
      shares).
        (iii)  If  the applicant is a partnership, its name, its main business
      address (and if such main business address is not within the state,  the
      address  of its main place of business within the state), other names by
      which it has been known or has  conducted  business  at  any  time,  its
      telephone  number,  its  federal employer identification number, and the
      names, ages, citizenship, and permanent home addresses of  each  of  its
      partners.
        (b)  A  statement identifying the street and number of the premises to
      be licensed, if the premises have a street  and  number,  and  otherwise
      such  description  as  will  reasonably  indicate  the locality thereof;
      photographs, drawings or other items related to the  appearance  of  the
      interior or exterior of such premises, and a floor plan of the interior,
      shall  be  required.  The  applicant  shall also state the nature of his
      interest in the premises; and the name of any other person interested as
      a partner, joint venturer, investor or lender with the applicant  either
      in the premises or in the business to be licensed.
        (c)  A  description  of  any  other alcohol beverage license or permit
      under this chapter or any other alcoholic beverage  control  law  which,
      within  the  past  ten  years,  the  applicant  (including any officers,
      directors, shareholders or partners listed in the statement of  identity
      under  paragraph  (a)  of  this  subdivision  or  the spouse of any such
      person) or the applicant's spouse held or applied for.
        (d) A statement that such applicant or the applicant's spouse has  not
      been  convicted  of  a  crime addressed by the provisions of section one
      hundred twenty-six of this article  which  would  forbid  the  applicant
      (including  any  officers, directors, shareholders or partners listed in
      the statement of identity under paragraph (a) of this subdivision or the
      spouse of such person) or the applicant's spouse to traffic in alcoholic
      beverages, a statement whether  or  not  the  applicant  (including  any
      officers, directors, shareholders or partners listed in the statement of
      identity  under  paragraph  (a) of this subdivision or the spouse of any
      such person) or the applicant's  spouse  is  an  official  described  in
      section  one  hundred twenty-eight of this article, and a description of
      any  crime  that  the  applicant  (including  any  officers,  directors,
      shareholders  or partners listed under paragraph (a) of this subdivision
      or the spouse of any such person) or the  applicant's  spouse  has  been
      convicted  of and whether such person has received a pardon, certificate
      of good conduct or certificate of relief  from  disabilities;  provided,
      however,  that  no  person  shall  be  denied  any license solely on the
    
      grounds  that  such  person  is  the  spouse  of  a   person   otherwise
      disqualified from holding a license under this chapter.
        (e)  A  statement  that  the location and layout of the premises to be
      licensed does not violate any requirement of this  chapter  relating  to
      location and layout of licensed premises, with a copy of the certificate
      of occupancy for the premises.
        (f)  A  statement that the applicant has control of the premises to be
      licensed by ownership of a fee interest or a leasehold with  a  term  at
      least as long as the license for which the application is being made, or
      by  a  binding  contract to acquire the same and a statement of identity
      under paragraph (a) of this subdivision for the lessor of any  leasehold
      with  a  copy of the lease, contract or deed evidencing fee ownership of
      the premises.
        (g) A financial statement adequate to show all persons  who,  directly
      or  indirectly  have  an  economic  interest  in  the  establishment  or
      acquisition of the business for which the license or permit  application
      is  being  made,  to identify the sources of funds to be applied in such
      establishment or acquisition, and to describe the terms  and  conditions
      governing  such establishment with copies of such financial documents as
      the authority may reasonably require.
        (h) The fingerprints of the applicants. Fingerprints submitted by  the
      applicants  shall  be  transmitted  to  the division of criminal justice
      services and may be submitted to the federal bureau of investigation for
      state and national criminal history record checks.
        2. All license or permit applications shall be signed by the applicant
      (if an individual), by an officer (if a corporation), or by all partners
      (if a partnership). Each person signing such application shall verify it
      or affirm it as true under the penalties of perjury.
        3. All license or permit applications shall be accompanied by a check,
      draft or other  forms  of  payment  as  the  authority  may  require  or
      authorize  in  the  amount  required by this chapter for such license or
      permit.
        4. If there be any change, after the filing of the application or  the
      granting  of  a license, in any of the facts required to be set forth in
      such application, a supplemental statement giving notice of such change,
      cost and source of money involved in the change, duly verified, shall be
      filed with the authority within ten days after such change.  Failure  to
      do  so  shall, if willful and deliberate, be cause for revocation of the
      license.
        5. In giving any notice, or  taking  any  action  in  reference  to  a
      licensee  of  a  licensed  premises,  the  authority  may  rely upon the
      information furnished  in  such  application  and  in  any  supplemental
      statement  connected  therewith, and such information may be presumed to
      be correct, and shall be binding upon a licensee or licensed premises as
      if  correct.    All  information  required  to  be  furnished  in   such
      application  or  supplemental statements shall be deemed material in any
      prosecution for perjury, any proceeding to revoke, cancel or suspend any
      license, and in the authority's determination to  approve  or  deny  the
      license.
        6.  The  authority  may  in its discretion waive the submission of any
      category of information described in this section for  any  category  of
      license  or permit, provided that it shall not be permitted to waive the
      requirement for submission of any such category  of  information  solely
      for an individual applicant or applicants.
        7.  The  authority  may,  by  rule,  adopt  additional  categories  of
      information  which  may  be  reasonably  necessary  to  carry  out   the
      provisions of this section.