5.45.080 Application for certificate – Review – Issuance – Denial.
A. The West Point City license officer shall provide a standard form for use for registration of solicitors. The applicant shall state upon oath or affirmation that the information is truthfully provided to the best of the knowledge and belief of the applicant. The applicant shall supply the following information and any such additional information which the license officer may include upon the application form:
1. Applicant’s true, correct and legal name, including any former names or aliases;
2. The name of any organization for which applicant will be soliciting;
3. The applicant’s home address and the address of applicant’s headquarters or place of organization contact;
4. The names and addresses of applicant’s officers and managers, if any;
5. Proof that either the applicant, or the organization for which applicant will be soliciting, has registered with the Utah State Department of Commerce;
6. A special events sales tax number for either the applicant, or for the organization for which the applicant will be soliciting;
7. The purpose for which soliciting will be done;
8. A brief description of the method of presentation that will be made;
9. Whether a permit, license or certificate of registration in connection with soliciting has ever been revoked by any jurisdiction, explaining the circumstances;
10. The applicant shall also apply to the Utah Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) for a background check. This service is available at the Utah Bureau of Criminal Identification (3888 West 5400 South, Salt Lake City), Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The applicant will deliver the findings of the background check by BCI to the license officer as part of the application process.
Receipt of the background check by the license officer shall be a condition precedent to issuance of a certificate of registration.
B. The applicant shall pay such fees as determined applicable by the city.
C. Upon review the license officer shall refuse to issue a certificate to the applicant for any of the following reasons:
1. The applicant falsified information on the application;
2. The applicant is listed as an offender on the official State of Utah Sex Offender Registry maintained by the Department of Corrections in accordance with Section 77-27-21.5, Utah Code Annotated 1953;
3. The applicant has been convicted of a felony, misdemeanor involving moral turpitude, a violation involving trafficking in controlled substances, or any violent acts against person or property, such conviction being entered within the five years preceding the date of application;
4. The applicant is a person against whom a judgment based upon, or conviction for, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation has been entered within the five years immediately preceding the date of application;
5. There is no proof as to the authority of the applicant to serve as an agent to the principal;
6. The applicant has been denied a permit under this chapter within the immediate past year, unless the applicant can and does show to the satisfaction of the license officer that the reasons for such earlier denial no longer exist;
7. The applicant is under 18 years of age; or
8. Any other reason rendering it manifestly inappropriate to issue a certificate. [Code 2000 § 16-11-8].