(A) Whenever it appears to the City Manager that the licensee is conducting a bingo game in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, the City Manager shall have the authority to summarily suspend the license and order the licensee to immediately cease and desist any further operation of any bingo game.
(B) Any person who continues to conduct a bingo game after any summary suspension thereof under division (A) above shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding $500 or by imprisonment in the County Jail for a period not exceeding six months, or by both the fine and imprisonment.
(C) The order issued under division (A) above shall also notify the licensee that it shall have five days from the date of the order to request a hearing to determine whether the license shall be revoked. Failure to request, in writing, the hearing before the City Manager within the five-day period shall result in a revocation of the license.
(D) Upon the request by the licensee whose license has been suspended under division (A) above, for a hearing to determine whether the license shall be revoked, the City Manager shall provide the hearing within ten days after receipt of the request at which hearing the suspended licensee may appear before the City Manager for the purpose of presenting evidence why the license should not be revoked. No license shall be revoked under this section unless notice of the time and place of the hearing shall have first been given at least five days before the hearing thereof by depositing in the United States mail a notice directed to the suspended licensee at the address given in the application. The notice shall set forth a summary of the ground advanced as the basis of the suspension and revocation.
(E) Any organization whose license is revoked under this section shall not conduct any bingo game in the city until the time as the City Council, on appeal, determines to overrule the decision of the City Manager.
(`61 Code, § 4A.6) (Ord. 579, passed 9-21-1976)