32A-9-103 (Repealed 07/01/11) - Qualifications. - Utah Statutes

32A-9-103 (Repealed 07/01/11). Qualifications.
(1) (a) The commission may not grant a warehousing license to any person who has beenconvicted of:
(i) a felony under any federal or state law;
(ii) any federal or state law or local ordinance concerning the sale, manufacture,distribution, warehousing, adulteration, or transportation of alcoholic beverages;
(iii) any crime involving moral turpitude; or
(iv) on two or more occasions within the five years before the day on which the license isgranted, driving under the influence of alcohol, any drug, or the combined influence of alcoholand any drug.
(b) In the case of a partnership, corporation, or limited liability company the proscriptionunder Subsection (1)(a) applies if any of the following has been convicted of any offensedescribed in Subsection (1)(a):
(i) a partner;
(ii) a managing agent;
(iii) a manager;
(iv) an officer;
(v) a director;
(vi) a stockholder who holds at least 20% of the total issued and outstanding stock of theapplicant corporation; or
(vii) a member who owns at least 20% of the applicant limited liability company.
(c) The proscription under Subsection (1)(a) applies if any person employed to act in asupervisory or managerial capacity for the warehouse has been convicted of any offensedescribed in Subsection (1)(a).
(2) The commission may immediately suspend or revoke a warehousing license if afterthe day on which the warehousing license is granted, a person described in Subsection (1)(a), (b),or (c):
(a) is found to have been convicted of any offense described in Subsection (1)(a) prior tothe license being granted; or
(b) on or after the day on which the license is granted:
(i) is convicted of an offense described in Subsection (1)(a)(i), (ii), or (iii); or
(ii) (A) is convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol, any drug, or the combinedinfluence of alcohol and any drug; and
(B) was convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol, any drug, or the combinedinfluence of alcohol and any drug within five years before the day on which the person isconvicted of the offense described in Subsection (2)(b)(ii)(A).
(3) The director may take emergency action by immediately suspending the operation ofthe warehousing license according to the procedures and requirements of Title 63G, Chapter 4,Administrative Procedures Act, for the period during which the criminal matter is beingadjudicated if a person described in Subsection (1)(a), (b), or (c):
(a) is arrested on a charge for an offense described in Subsection (1)(a)(i), (ii), or (iii); or
(b) (i) is arrested on a charge for the offense of driving under the influence of alcohol,any drug, or the combined influence of alcohol and any drug; and
(ii) was convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol, any drug, or the combinedinfluence of alcohol and any drug within five years before the day on which the person is arrested

on a charge described in Subsection (3)(b)(i).
(4) (a) (i) The commission may not grant a warehousing license to any person who hashad any type of license, agency, or permit issued under this title revoked within the last threeyears.
(ii) The commission may not grant a warehousing license to an applicant that is apartnership, corporation, or limited liability company if any partner, managing agent, manager,officer, director, stockholder who holds at least 20% of the total issued and outstanding stock ofan applicant corporation, or member who owns at least 20% of an applicant limited liabilitycompany is or was:
(A) a partner or managing agent of any partnership that had any type of license, agency,or permit issued under this title revoked within the last three years;
(B) a managing agent, officer, director, or stockholder who holds or held at least 20% ofthe total issued and outstanding stock of any corporation that had any type of license, agency, orpermit issued under this title revoked within the last three years; or
(C) a manager or member who owns or owned at least 20% of any limited liabilitycompany that had any type of license, agency, or permit issued under this title revoked within thelast three years.
(b) An applicant that is a partnership, corporation, or limited liability company may notbe granted a warehousing license if any of the following had any type of license, agency, orpermit issued under this title revoked while acting in that person's individual capacity within thelast three years:
(i) any partner or managing agent of the applicant partnership;
(ii) any managing agent, officer, director, or stockholder who holds at least 20% of thetotal issued and outstanding stock of the applicant corporation; or
(iii) any manager or member who owns at least 20% of the applicant limited liabilitycompany.
(c) A person acting in an individual capacity may not be granted a warehousing license ifthat person was:
(i) a partner or managing agent of a partnership that had any type of license, agency, orpermit issued under this title revoked within the last three years;
(ii) a managing agent, officer, director, or stockholder who held at least 20% of the totalissued and outstanding stock of a corporation that had any type of license, agency, or permitissued under this title revoked within the last three years; or
(iii) any manager or member who owned at least 20% of a limited liability company thathad any type of license, agency, or permit issued under this title revoked within the last threeyears.
(5) (a) A minor may not be:
(i) granted a warehousing license; or
(ii) employed by a warehouse to handle liquor.
(b) The commission may not grant a warehousing license to an applicant that is apartnership, corporation, or limited liability company if any of the following is a minor:
(i) a partner or managing agent of the applicant partnership;
(ii) a managing agent, officer, director, or stockholder who holds at least 20% of the totalissued and outstanding stock of the applicant corporation; or
(iii) a manager or member who owns at least 20% of the applicant limited liability

company.
(6) A person, through any officer, director, representative, agent, or employee, orotherwise, either directly or indirectly, may not hold at the same time both a warehousing licenseand any other kind of license, agency, or permit issued under Chapter 3, 4, 4a, 5, 6, or 7, orChapter 10, Part 2.
(7) If any person to whom a license is granted under this chapter no longer possesses thequalifications required by this title for obtaining that license, the commission may suspend orrevoke that license.

Repealed by Chapter 276, 2010 General Session
Amended by Chapter 383, 2009 General Session