(a) The Greenville County zoning administrator shall revoke a permit if a cause of suspension in § 2.5-79 occurs and the permit has been suspended within the preceding 12 months.
(b) The zoning administrator shall revoke a permit if the zoning administrator determines that:
(1) A permittee gave false or misleading information in the material submitted to the zoning department during the application process;
(2) A permittee or an employee has knowingly allowed possession, use, or sale of controlled substances on the premises;
(3) A permittee or an employee has knowingly allowed prostitution on the premises;
(4) A permittee or an employee knowingly operated the sexually oriented business during a period of time when the permittee’s permit was suspended;
(5) A permittee or an employee has knowingly allowed any act of sexual intercourse, sodomy, oral copulation, masturbation, or other sexual conduct to occur in or on the permitted premises;
(6) A permittee is delinquent in payment to the county or state for any taxes or fees past due.
Such determination may be based upon information obtained independently by the zoning department, a conviction under § 2.5-87 of this article, a separate criminal conviction that would constitute a violation of this article, or other information from law enforcement, the health department, the fire department, or other official charged with enforcing the law.
(c) When the zoning administrator revokes a permit, the revocation shall continue for 1 year, and the permittee shall not be issued a sexually oriented business permit for 1 year from the date revocation became effective. If, subsequent to revocation, the zoning administrator finds that the basis for the revocation has been corrected or abated, the applicant may be granted a permit if at least 90 days have elapsed since the date the revocation became effective.
(1976 Code, § 2.5-80) (Ord. 2673, § 10, passed 2-7-1995)
Editor’s note:
Provisions modified by judicial decision.