(A) The Committee on Automobile Dealers’ Licenses is hereby authorized, for good cause shown, as set forth in this chapter, and after a hearing, to refuse to issue or renew a license or to duly and properly advise the Mayor to revoke the license for cause. No action in refusing to issue, renew, or revoke a license shall be taken until the applicant or licensee shall have been furnished with a statement, in writing, of the specific charges against him or her, and a 5-day notice of the time and place of the hearing for a licensee shall have been mailed to him or her by registered mail at his or her last known address.
(B) (1) In the event that any person holding a license as an automobile dealer shall violate or cause or permit to be violated any of the provisions of this chapter or any provisions of any other ordinance or of any law relating to or regulating the automobile business or any law of the state, or shall conduct or carry on such a business in an unlawful manner, or shall cause or permit the business to be so conducted or carried on unlawfully, it shall be the duty of the Licensing Committee on Automobile Dealers’ Licenses to notify the licensee in default.
(2) After a hearing, as provided in this chapter, the Committee shall duly and properly advise the Mayor, who shall, in addition to the other penalties provided by this chapter, suspend or revoke the license issued for conducting or carrying on the business.
(Prior Code, § 114.15) Penalty, see § 10.99