(A) The City Council shall act on an application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity by resolution and may deny any such application if, in its sound discretion, it determines that:
(1) There is a reasonable cause rendering the proposed operation undesirable or inadequate to the city.
(2) There is insufficient public need or demand for the proposed operation.
(3) The vehicles proposed to be operated under such certificate are inadequate or unsafe.
(4) The applicant has been convicted of a felony or the violation of a narcotic law or of any penal law involving moral turpitude or of any ordinance relating to frame or use of streets in the city.
(5) The proposed color scheme or characteristic insignia will tend to confuse the identification of the vehicles proposed to be operated with those of another owner operating an ambulance service in the city.
(B) The council may, by resolution, and after five days' written notice to an owner, suspend or revoke an owner's certificate of necessity for any of the grounds for which it may deny an application, and in addition thereto, it may suspend or revoke any owner's certificate of necessity for a violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, or for a failure to pay any judgment for damages arising from the operation of the vehicles, or any of them, for which the certificate of necessity was issued.
('61 Code, § 2A.12) (Ord. 360, passed - - )