(a) The Director shall revoke a permit and/or license if a cause of suspension in Section 713.09 occurs and the permit and/or license has been suspended within the proceeding twelve (12) months.
(b) The Director shall also revoke a permit and/or license if he determines that:
(1) A permittee and/or licensee gave false or misleading information in the material submitted during the application process;
(2) A permittee and/or licensee or an employee has knowingly allowed possession, use, or sale of controlled substances on the premises;
(3) A permittee and/or licensee or an employee has knowingly allowed prostitution on the premises;
(4) A permittee and/or licensee or an employee knowingly operated the sexually oriented business during a period of time when the permittee’s and/or licensee’s permit and/or license was suspended;
(5) A permittee and/or licensee or an employee has knowingly allowed an act of sexual intercourse, sodomy, oral copulation, masturbation, or other sexual conduct to occur in or on the permitted and/or licensed premises;
(6) A permittee and/or licensee is delinquent in payment to the Town, State or Federal governments for any taxes for fees past due.
(7) The owner or operator of the permitted establishment knowingly allowed a person under eighteen (18) years of age to enter the establishment; or
(8) There was a change of owner or operator for which a transfer application was not timely filed.
(c) When the Director revokes a permit and/or license, the revocation shall continue for one (1) year, and the permittee and/or licensee shall not be issued a sexually oriented permit and/or license for one year from the date revocation became effective. If, subsequent to revocation, the Director finds that the basis for the revocation has been corrected or abated, the applicant may be granted a permit and/or license if at least ninety (90) days have elapsed since the date the revocation became effective.
(d) After denial of an application by the Director and Town Council, or denial of a renewal of any application, or suspension or revocation of a permit and/or license by the Director, the applicant or licensee or permittee may seek prompt judicial review of such administrative action in any court of competent jurisdiction. The administrative action shall be promptly reviewed by the court as in extraordinary remedy proceedings.
(Ord. 97-6. Passed 8-7-97.)