CITY OF MISHAWAKA

DEPARTMENT OF LAW

JOHN P. GOURLEY
Corporation Counsel (219) 255-1155

STAFF ATTORNEY
Jennifer A. Zimmerman (219) 258-1702

ASSISTANT CITY ATTORNEYS:
H. Theodore Noell (219) 259-1002
Stephen A. Studer (219) 273-1010
Edward A. Chapleau (219)233-5173

NOTICE

Effective October 24, 2000, pursuant to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit’s decision in Schultz v. Cumberland, the City of Mishawaka suspends enforcement of the following provisions of Ordinance Number 4415 until further notice:

Subsection 3(F)(3): Whether the applicant or any of the other individuals listed in the application has, within the two or five year period as specified in §124.05 immediately preceding the date of the application, been convicted of a specified criminal act, and, if so, the specified criminal act involved, and the date and place of conviction.

Subsection 3(F)(8): The applicant’s…residential address. Subsection 3(F)(9): A recent photograph of the applicant(s).

Subsection 3(F)(10): The applicant’s driver’s license number, Social Security number, and/or his/her state or federally issued tax identification number.

Subsection 4(A): …The Mishawaka Police Department shall only be required to certify the NCIC records request check mentioned at §124.05. The Police Department shall not be required to approve or disapprove applications.

Subsection 5(C)(1)(b): An applicant or an applicant’s spouse is overdue on his/her payment to the city of taxes, fees, fines, or penalties assessed against him/her or imposed upon him/her in relation to a sexually oriented business.

Subsection 5(C)(1)(j): An applicant has been convicted of a "specified criminal’ act for which:

1. Less than two years have elapsed since the date of conviction or the date of release from confinement, whichever is the later date, if the conviction is of a misdemeanor offense for the "specified criminal" acts which are sexual crimes against children, sexual abuse, rape or crimes connected with another sexually oriented business including, but not limited to, distribution of obscenity or material harmful to minors, prostitution, pandering, or tax violations;

2. Less than five years have elapsed since the date of conviction or the date of release from confinement, whichever is the later date, if the conviction is of a felony offense; for the "specified criminal" acts which are sexual crimes against children, sexual abuse, rape or crimes connected with another sexually oriented business including, but not limited to, distribution of obscenity or material harmful to minors, prostitution, pandering, or tax violations;

3. Less than five years have elapsed since the date of conviction or the date of release from confinement, whichever is the later date, if the convictions are of two or more misdemeanor offenses for "specified criminal" acts which are sexual crimes against children, sexual abuse, rape or crimes connected with another sexually oriented business including, but not limited to, distribution of obscenity or material harmful to minors, prostitution, pandering, or tax violations; offenses occurring within any 24 month period;

4. The fact that a conviction is being appealed shall have no effect on disqualification of the applicant.

5. An applicant who has been convicted of the above described "specified criminal" acts may qualify for a sexually oriented business permit only when the time period required above in §124.05(C)(1)(j) has elapsed.

Subsection 10(B)(5): A permittee has been convicted of a "specified criminal act" for which the time period required in §124.05 of this chapter has not elapsed;

 

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