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Section 26. Issuance--generally. (a) The City Clerk shall not issue any annual license under this Ordinance unless directed to do so by resolution duly adopted by the City Council. Any resolution granting a license may be conditioned on final departmental or commission approvals,payment of taxes or any other condition the council deems appropriate. The City Clerk shall not issue any license until all such conditions are met. (b) The City shall cause an investigation to be made of all of the representations set forth in the applications. Opportunity shall be given at a regular or special meeting of the city council or planning and zoning commission to any person to be heard for or against the granting of any license. After such investigation, the City Council shall grant or refuse such license in its discretion; provided that no off sale intoxicating or on sale wine liquor license shall become effective until it, together with any required insurance policy, has the approval of the state Liquor Control Commissioner. (c) The licensed premises shall have the current license posted in a conspicuous place. Section 27. Corporations. (a) Alcoholic beverage licenses may be issued to any corporation authorized to do business in the state of Minnesota if an officer or a managing agent of the corporation is a resident of Minnesota residing within 20 miles of the city. (b) No corporation shall be granted a license to sell alcoholic beverages if any of its officers, directors, shareholders, local managers or local managing agents have been convicted within five years prior to the application for such license for violation of any law relating to the manufacture, sale, distribution or possession of alcoholic beverages, or have had an interest in a license to sell alcoholic beverages which was revoked within the last five years for violation of any such law. (c) A corporation shall state in its application for an alcoholic beverage license the names of its shareholders, directors, officers, local managers and local managing agents. The transfer, sale,pledge, or assignment of the record or equitable ownership of any stock of a corporate license holder to new or different shareholders, or the election or appointment of any new or different directors or officers, shall be deemed a transfer of all alcoholic beverage licenses held by such corporation. The failure of any corporate license holder to comply with the provisions of this paragraph shall be grounds for the revocation of all alcoholic beverage licenses held by such corporation. Section 28. Transfer; modification of licensed premises. (a) No license issued under the provisions of this Ordinance shall be assigned or transferred by the licensee, nor shall a change of address in the location of the licensed Page 12