It is also applying for licences allowing customers to play in the shelters, but this is a laborious process that will take at least 12 months.
The requirement to plead guilty to a felony is both unusual and dangerous: some jurisdictions could withdraw BNP's banking licence and some customers may be forced to move elsewhere.
For example, labels infamously class paid-for downloads as "licences" to their customers (you haven't bought the music, you've just licensed it).
Some of these companies have made billions by passing on the nominal costs of the licences to their customers, even though they didn't have to pay anything themselves.
Among their complaints: Uber undercuts them on fares, drivers don't have to pay for licences, they gouge customers with surge pricing, have inadequate insurance, and don't do proper background checks on drivers.
If two cores on a single chip can do twice the work of a single processor, they argue, then customers paying licence fees based on the number of processors running their software (one of the most common forms of software licensing) will be getting a free ride on half the new cores being deployed.
Until October (and 2016 in Denver) only medical-marijuana operators may receive licences to serve recreational customers, which is why many of the shops that welcomed newcomers on January 1st have names like Citi-Med and Evergreen Apothecary.
Businesspeople generally argue that an indictment or a criminal charge can cause unacceptable damage, including the loss of operating licences, government contracts and customers, so their only realistic choice may be to settle, even if they have a good chance of being acquitted.
Pharmacists are required to record customer's licence details so they can flag any ongoing misuse and monitor purchase history.
So licence fee payers become their customers.
