(A) The City Council may, on its own initiative or on the complaint of any person, institute proceedings to revoke any license issued under this chapter. Revocation shall be had only upon five (5) days’ notice to the licensee, and an opportunity shall be given him to be heard at a hearing before the said Council.
(B) Any of the licenses issued hereunder may be revoked by the City Council for any of the following reasons:
(1) If the licensee shall have violated any of the provisions under this chapter or of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act or if the State License be revoked for any of the other reasons set out by the Kentucky State Alcoholic Board.
(2) Conviction of the licensee or his agent or employee for making an illegal sale of alcoholic beverages on the premises licensed.
(3) Making any false, material statement in an application for a license.
(4) Transferring, assigning, pledging, depositing or hypothecating a license or paying for the license of another or permitting another to pay for one’s own license.
(5) Selling or agreeing to sell alcoholic beverages to a wholesaler or retailer or to any person for resale who is not licensed so to do at that time.
(6) Willful or deliberate failure or default of a license to pay an ad valorem or excise tax, or any part thereof, or any penalties imposed by or under the provisions of any statutes or ordinances relative to taxation.
(7) Setting up, conducting, operating or keeping, on the licensed premises, any gambling game, device machine or contrivance, or loiter or gift enterprise or handbook or facility for betting or transmitting bets on horse races; or permitting to be set up, conducted, operated, kept or engaged in, on the licensed premises, any such game, device, machine, contrivance, lottery, gift enterprise, handbook or facility.
(Ord. 111, passed 1-1-61)