(A) Whenever the inspection of any rooming house indicates that conditions or practices exist which are in violation of any provision of this chapter or of any rule or regulation adopted pursuant thereto, the Commissioner of Buildings shall give notice in writing to the operator of the rooming house that unless these conditions or practices are corrected within a reasonable period, to be determined by the Commissioner, the operator’s rooming house permit will be suspended. At the end of this period, the Commissioner of Buildings shall reinspect the rooming house, and if he finds that the conditions and practices have not been corrected, he shall give notice in writing to the operator that the latter’s permit has been suspended. Upon receipt of notice of suspension, the operator shall immediately cease operation of the rooming house and no person shall occupy for sleeping or living purposes any rooming unit therein.
(B) Any person whose permit to operate a rooming house has been suspended, or who has received notice from the Commissioner of Buildings that his permit is to be suspended unless existing conditions or practices at his rooming house are corrected, may request and shall be granted a hearing on the matter before the Commissioner of Buildings under the procedure provided by §§ 95.60 through 95.63. If no petition for a hearing is filed within ten days following the day on which the permit was suspended, the permit shall be deemed to have been automatically revoked.
(‘67 Code, § 137.09(4), (5)) (Ord. 4-1967, passed 6-12-67)