(A) The Police Chief shall revoke a license if a cause of suspension in § 154.078 above occurs and the license has been suspended within the preceding 12 months.
(B) The Police Chief shall revoke a license if the Police Chief determines that:
(1) A licensee gave false or misleading information in the material submitted to the Police Chief during the application process;
(2) A licensee or an employee has knowingly allowed possession, use or sale of controlled substances on the premises;
(3) A licensee or an employee has knowingly allowed prostitution on the premises;
(4) A licensee or an employee operated the sexually oriented business during a period of time when the licensee’s license was suspended;
(6) On two or more occasions within a 12-month period, a person or persons committed an offense occurring in or on the licensed premises of a crime listed in § 154.074(A)(8)(a) for which a conviction has been obtained, and the person or persons were employees of the sexually oriented business at the time the offenses were committed;
(7) A licensee or an employee has knowingly allowed any act of sexual intercourse, sodomy, oral copulation, masturbation or sexual contact to occur in or on the licensed premises. The term "sexual contact" shall have the same meaning as it is defined in Tex. Penal Code, § 21.01; or
(8) A licensee is delinquent in payment to the city for hotel occupancy taxes, ad valorem taxes or sales taxes related to the sexually oriented business.
(C) The fact that a conviction is being appealed shall have no effect on the revocation of the license.
(D) Division (B)(7) above does not apply to adult motels as a ground for revoking the license unless the licensee or employee knowingly allowed the act of sexual intercourse, sodomy, oral copulation, masturbation or sexual contact to occur in a public place or within public view.
(E) When the Police Chief revokes a license, the revocation shall continue for one year and the licensee shall not be issued a sexually oriented business license for one year from the date revocation has been corrected or abated, the applicant may be granted a license if at least 90 days have elapsed since the date the revocation became effective. If the license was revoked under division (B)(5), an applicant may not be granted another license until the appropriate number of years required under § 154.074(A)(8)(b) has elapsed.
(Ord. 12-3-98, passed 12-3-1998)