(a) No revocation or suspension of a license required by this article shall be made by the Mayor or Recorder unless and until a hearing shall be held after ten days' notice to the licensee of the time and place of such hearing, which notice shall contain a statement or specification of the charges , grounds or reasons for such proposed contemplated action, and which shall be served upon the licensee as other notices or by registered mail to the address for which license was issued, at which time and place so designated in the notice the licensee shall have the right to appear and produce evidence in his behalf and to be represented by counsel.
(b) The Mayor and Recorder shall have the authority to summon witnesses in the hearings before them, and fees of witnesses summoned on behalf of the City in proceedings to revoke or suspend licenses shall be treated as a part of the expenses of administration and enforcement. Such fees shall be the same as those in similar hearings in the courts.
(c) If, at the request of the licensee or on his motion, the hearing shall be continued and shall not take place on the day fixed by the Mayor and Recorder in the notice above provided for, such licensee's license shall be suspended until the hearing and decision of the Mayor and Recorder, and in the event of revocation or suspension of such license, upon hearing before the Mayor and Recorder, the licensee shall not be permitted to sell beer pending an appeal as provided by this article. Any person continuing to sell beer after his license has been suspended or revoked as hereinbefore provided shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished as provided in this article.
(d) The action of the Mayor and the Recorder in revoking or suspending a license shall be subject to review upon certiorari by the circuit court of the county when such licensee may be aggrieved by such revocation or suspension. The granting of such review upon certiorari shall be in the sound discretion of the judge of the circuit court of the county, and petition for such review must be filed with the circuit court within a period of thirty days from and after the date of revocation or suspension by the Mayor and Recorder, Any licensee obtaining an order of review shall be required to pay the costs and fees incident to transcribing, certifying and transmitting the records pertaining to such matter to the circuit court. An application to the supreme court of appeals of the state for a writ of error from any final order of the circuit court in any such matter shall be made within thirty days from and after the entry of such final order.
(e) All such hearings upon notice to show cause why the license should not be revoked or suspended before the Mayor and Recorder shall be held in the office of the Mayor in the City Hall, unless otherwise provided in such notice or agreed upon between the licensee and the Mayor and Recorder; and when such hearing is held elsewhere than in the Mayor's and Recorder's office, the licensee may be required to make deposit of the estimated costs of such hearing. (4-6-81)