No license shall be issued to:
(1)  Any person, or any one (1) of its members, officers, or governing board, who has, within three (3) years prior to the date of making application, been convicted of any violation of the laws of the United States, the state of Idaho, or any other state of the United States, or of the resolutions or ordinances of any county or city of this state, relating to the importation, transportation, manufacture or sale of alcoholic liquor or beer; or who has been convicted of, paid any fine, been placed on probation, received a deferred sentence, received a withheld judgment or completed any sentence of confinement for any felony within five (5) years prior to the date of making application for any license.
lawyer at desk

Ask a legal question, get an answer ASAP!
Click here to chat with a lawyer about your rights.

Terms Used In Idaho Code 23-910

  • Brewery: means a place, premises or establishment for the manufacture, bottling or canning of beer. See Idaho Code 23-902
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Director: means the director of the Idaho state police. See Idaho Code 23-902
  • License: means a license issued by the director to a qualified person, under which it shall be lawful for the licensee to sell and dispense liquor by the drink at retail, as provided by law. See Idaho Code 23-902
  • Licensee: means the person to whom a license is issued under the provisions of law. See Idaho Code 23-902
  • Liquor: means all kinds of liquor sold by and in a state liquor store of the state of Idaho. See Idaho Code 23-902
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Person: means any individual, corporation, business corporation, nonprofit corporation, benefit corporation as defined in section 30-2002(1), Idaho Code, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, general cooperative association, limited cooperative association, estate, unincorporated nonprofit association, statutory trust, business trust, common-law business trust, estate trust, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality, any entity defined in section 30-21-102, Idaho Code, or any other commercial entity, whether conducting the business singularly or collectively. See Idaho Code 23-902
  • Premises: means the building and contiguous property owned or leased or used under a government permit by a licensee, as part of the business establishment in the business of sale of liquor by the drink at retail, which property is improved to include decks, docks, boardwalks, lawns, gardens, golf courses, ski resorts, courtyards, patios, poolside areas or similar improved appurtenances in which the sale of liquor by the drink at retail is authorized under the provisions of law. See Idaho Code 23-902
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories; and the words "United States" may include the District of Columbia and territories. See Idaho Code 73-114
  • Winery: means a place, premises or establishment within the state of Idaho for the manufacture or bottling of table wine or dessert wine for sale. See Idaho Code 23-902
(2)  A person who is engaged in the operation, or interested therein, of any house or place for the purpose of prostitution or who has been convicted of any crime or misdemeanor opposed to decency and morality.
(3)  A person whose license issued under this act has been revoked; an individual who was a member of a partnership or association which was a licensee under this act and whose license has been revoked; an individual who was an officer, member of the governing board or one (1) of the ten (10) principal stockholders of a corporation which was a licensee under this act and whose license has been revoked; a partnership or association one (1) of whose members was a licensee under this act and whose license was revoked; a corporation one (1) of whose officers, member of the governing board or ten (10) principal stockholders was a licensee under the provisions of this act and whose license has been revoked; an association or partnership, one (1) of whose members was a member of a partnership or association licensed under the provisions of this act and whose license has been revoked; a partnership or association, one (1) of whose members was an officer, a member of the governing board, or one (1) of the ten (10) principal stockholders of a corporation licensed under the provisions of this act and whose license has been revoked; a corporation, one (1) of whose officers, member of the governing board, or ten (10) principal stockholders was a member of a partnership or association licensed under the provisions of this act and whose license was revoked; a corporation, one (1) of whose officers, member of the governing board, or ten (10) principal stockholders was an officer, member of the governing board, or one (1) of the ten (10) principal stockholders of a corporation licensed under the provisions of this act and whose license was revoked.
(4)  Any officer, agent, or employee of any distillery, winery, brewery, or any wholesaler, or jobber, of liquor or malt beverages except as provided in section 23-912, Idaho Code. This prohibition shall not apply to officers, agents, or employees of any winery operating a golf course on the same premises as the winery.
(5)  A person who does not hold a retail beer license issued under the laws of the state of Idaho.
(6)  Any license, held by any licensee disqualified under the provisions of this section from being issued a license, shall forthwith be revoked by the director.