The City Council may revoke any permit granted pursuant to this chapter on the grounds that the permit holder has failed to comply with the permit conditions or other requirements of this chapter.
.010 When the City Council concludes that grounds may exist for revocation of a permit, it shall fix a time and place for the hearing on the issue of the revocation of such permit and direct the City Clerk to serve the permit holder with notice of such time and place of the hearing, together with a statement of the charges which form the basis for the proposed revocation. The City Clerk shall serve the permit holder with the notice by certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the business address of the permit holder no less than ten days before the time fixed for the hearing.
.020 The City Council may preside over the hearing, or in the alternative, the City Council may, pursuant to Section 1.12.110, appoint an Employee Hearing Officer or a Stipulated Hearing Officer, as said terms are defined in subsection 1.12.110.010 of this Code, to conduct the hearing, receive relevant evidence and submit to the City Council findings and recommendations to be considered by the City Council. The City Council shall render its decision within thirty days from the date of the revocation hearing or, in the event that a hearing officer has been appointed, the hearing officer shall submit his/her findings and recommendations to the City Council within thirty days from the date of the revocation hearing, and the City Council shall render its decision within fifteen days from the date on which the City Council receives the decision of the hearing officer. The decision of the City Council shall be final.
.030 In the event that the permit of any person is revoked by the City Council, such person shall not be granted a permit to operate a taxicab business for a period of six months after such revocation. (Ord. 5627 § 2 (part); February 10, 1998; Ord. 5866 § 8; June 17, 2003.)