§ 6-85-2. Identification cards required for employers and employees.

(a)

Identification cards required for employers and employees shall be required for any employer and employee of any type of license under this chapter who sells, pours, handles, dispenses, or serves alcoholic beverages on the licensed premises or anyone who manages any employee who sells, pours, handles, dispenses, or serves alcoholic beverages on the licensed premises.

(b)

No license holder shall employ any person required to have an employee identification card until such person has procured such card.

(c)

Any person required to obtain an employee identification card shall apply to the chief of police or his/her designee for such a card, which card, when issued, shall be valid for a period of one year and shall be renewed on or before its expiration. A fee as set in the schedule of fees by the city police department shall be paid with each card application. Persons applying for card shall make themselves available for photographing, background checks, and such other investigation as may be required by the city's police chief or his/her designee.

(d)

Upon receipt of a favorable investigation and report, the chief of police or his/her designee shall grant an employee identification card to a person applying for a card.

(e)

The city's chief of police may revoke an employee identification card and demand its return where the employer or employee violates the provisions of this chapter or becomes one who adversely affects the public health, safety, or welfare.

(f)

It shall be unlawful for an employer or employee whose employee identification card has been revoked and upon whom the demand for the return of the card has been made to refuse to return the card or to alter, conceal, deface, or destroy the card.

(g)

When a person applies for an employer or employee identification card, the chief of police or his/her designee will order a background check through GCIC of such person. The conviction of a felony or a crime of moral turpitude, conviction of an alcohol statute or ordinance violation, including but not limited to DUI, selling to minors, etc., conviction of a misdemeanor of high and aggravated nature, within the past five years, or a record of other conduct prohibited by this chapter, or evidence that the person's employment would adversely affect the public health, safety, or welfare shall preclude issuance of an identification card. A guilty plea or plea of nolo contendere of the forfeiture of a bond shall be considered a conviction for purposes of this subsection.

( Ord. No. 04-2014, § 1(Exh. A), 5-28-14 )