LIVERMORE — Following a brief public hearing with no comments, the Board of Selectpersons on Monday night voted unanimously to approve the liquor license application submitted by Carriage House Restaurant owner Michael Weaver.

Weaver had applied for a license renewal in October 2014. Several meetings were held because board members wanted more details about his prior convictions. They directed Administrative Assistant Carrie Castonguay to get a State Bureau of Identification report on Weaver because of missing information on the application.

The state report included multiple felonies for marijuana and other drugs, and firearms. Then-Selectperson Rodney Newman said those felonies clearly, by law, disqualifies the applicant from obtaining a license.

In November 2014, the board voted 3-2 to deny Weaver’s application. According to a Sun Journal report, it had been approved for several years without complete information on it, unbeknownst to previous board members.

Weaver appealed the denial, first to the Maine Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages & Lottery Operations and then to District Court.

According to the Sun Journal, Lewiston District Court Judge Susan Oram noted in her order on Nov. 23, 2015, that the state “may issue a license only if it is persuaded by clear and convincing evidence that the municipality did not have justifiable cause for denying the license.” In this case, she ruled, the municipality did have justifiable cause because the law allows town officials to deny a license for felony convictions.

After Monday’s public hearing, Selectperson Timothy Kachnovich said at issue last time was the incomplete application. A copy of the state report accompanied this latest application.

Kachnovich moved to approve it and the board voted unanimously to do so.

The selectpersons also voted to approve Weaver’s special amusement permit application. That application had been accepted in 2014 even though the liquor license renewal was denied.

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