Any person who has received notice from the chief code enforcement officer to cease his operation of a rooming house, unless existing conditions or practices at his rooming house are corrected, may request and shall be granted a hearing on the matter before the board of works and public safety, under the procedure provided by this chapter, provided that if no petition for such hearing is filed within ten days following the day on which operation was ordered discontinued, such order requiring correction of conditions or practices at such rooming house and cessation of operations as a rooming house shall be deemed to have become the final order of the board of works and public safety ordering the cessation of operations. (Prior code § 11-36)