(A) If it appears to the Chief of Police that a licensee is conducting bingo or allowing bingo to be conducted in violation of any provision of this chapter or Penal Code §§ 326.3, 326.4, and/or 326.5, as applicable and as amended from time to time, the Chief of Police shall have the authority to suspend the license summarily and order the licensee to cease and desist from any further operation of bingo within the city.
(B) Any licensee continuing to conduct bingo after such suspension shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punishable by a fine not to exceed $1,000, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not to exceed six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
(C) An order and suspension issued under this chapter shall also notify the licensee that it shall have five days from the date of the order to request a hearing to determine whether such license shall be revoked. If no such hearing is requested within this five-day period, the license shall be revoked.
(D) Within ten days after receipt of a timely hearing request by the licensee, the Chief of Police shall provide and conduct such a hearing. At this hearing, the suspended licensee may appear for the purpose of presenting evidence and information tending to show why the license should not be revoked.
(E) No license shall be revoked under division (D) of this section unless notice of the time and place of the hearing has first been given at least five days before the hearing, by depositing in the United States mail a notice directed to the suspended licensee at the address given in licensee’s application. Notice shall set forth a summary of the grounds advanced as the basis for the suspension and revocation.
(F) An organization whose license is revoked under this section shall conduct no bingo in the city unless the appeal sets aside the license revocation.
(`78 Code, § 5.12.060.) (Ord. 3093 § 1 (part), 2011; Ord. 2347 § 20, 1998; Ord. 1500 § 1 (part), 1978; Ord. 1475 § 1 (part), 1977; Ord. 1446 § 2 (part), 1976.)