Review of the grant, denial, renewal, non-renewal, suspension, or revocation of a license shall be as follows:
(a) Within thirty calendar days of receipt of a determination by the License Officer, the applicant, or license holder, may file an appeal with the City Manager. Failure to file a timely request for review shall be deemed a waiver of appeal.
(b) The review committee shall hold a public hearing and the applicant shall be given written notice of the date and time of this review hearing at least five calendar days prior to the hearing. The City shall not be required to present any evidence at this review hearing other than written findings of the License Officer. The review committee may adopt and make available to the public procedures under which a hearing will be conducted. Such procedures shall not require compliance with strict rules of evidence but shall mandate that only relevant information be received.
(c) The review committee shall decide by a majority vote whether to reverse the decision of the License Officer. All decisions of the review committee shall be final and shall be subject to judicial review in accordance with the provisions of the Illinois Administrative Review Law (735 ILCS 513-101 et seq.), as now or hereafter amended.
(Ord. 2000-14. Passed 3-20-00; Ord. 2010-21. Passed 4-19-10; Ord. 2017-56. Passed 7-17-17.)