Pursuant to notice, Council shall conduct a hearing pursuant to this title, at which hearing a continuance for proper cause shown may be granted at the insistence of ether party. If upon the hearing of the matter the Council by majority vote of the members constituting a quorum thereof shall determine that such nuisance exists as charged in the complaint, it shall provide by resolution for its abatement as follows:
(a) If such nuisance be in a place of business or other establishment for the conduct of which the City has issued a license, then such license may be revoked.
(b) If the nuisance found to exist be that of conducting a house of ill fame, bawdy house, house of prostitution, gambling house, or place for the handling, sale or other disposition of alcoholic liquors contrary to the statutes of the state or the provisions of this Code or other ordinances of the City, the resolution of Council may authorize and direct the City Attorney to institute on behalf of the City a suit in equity in the proper form for the abatement of such nuisance and the closing of such premises as provided by statute.
(c) If any nuisance be found to exist other than those specifically enumerated in subsections (a) and (b) of this section, and the provisions of this Code and other ordinances of the City do not provide for its abatement, the Council may authorize the issuance of a warrant before the Mayor or, upon the complaint of any official of the City, or any bona fide resident, filed before the Mayor, prosecution shall immediately be had of any person shown to be maintaining or harboring such nuisance. (1984 Code 9-1-7)