(A) If it appears to the Chief of Police that a permittee is conducting a controlled game fundraiser or allowing controlled game fundraisers to be conducted in violation of any provision of this chapter, or that the permit was obtained by fraudulent representations, the Chief of Police shall have the authority to revoke the permit summarily and order the permittee to cease and desist from any further operation of controlled game fundraisers within the city. Alternatively, the Chief of Police may issue a notice of intent to revoke the permit pursuant to the noticed hearing procedure provided for herein.
(B) Any notice of denial of a permit or notice of intent to revoke issued under this chapter shall also notify the permittee that it shall have five days from the date of the denial or notice of intent to revoke to request a hearing to determine whether such permit shall be denied or revoked. If no such hearing is requested within this five-day period, the permit shall be deemed denied or revoked, as applicable.
(C) Within ten days after receipt of a timely hearing request by the permittee, the Chief of Police shall provide and conduct such a hearing. At this hearing, the permittee may appear for the purpose of presenting evidence and information tending to show why the permit should not be denied or revoked.
(D) No permit shall be denied or revoked under division (C) 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 denied or revoked permittee at the address given in permittee's application. Notice shall set forth a summary of the grounds advanced as the basis for the denial or revocation.
(E) A nonprofit organization whose permit is denied or revoked under this section shall conduct no controlled game fundraiser in the city unless the appeal sets aside the permit denial or revocation, or unless a new permit is issued.
(F) Permittees should be aware that pursuant to Business and Professions Code Section 19986(i), the Division of Gambling Control may take legal action against a permittee if it determines that the permittee has violated the provisions of this chapter or those under Section 19986 of the Business and Professions Code.
(Ord. 2876 § 2 (part), 2007.)