(A) If it is determined by the county’s Health Officer, following any investigation or inspection of a restaurant or food establishment that the operator, owner or manager thereof has not complied with the provisions of this chapter or with the laws of the state, the Health Officer may, in his or her discretion, immediately suspend and seize the permit issued to operate the restaurant or food establishment. Any owner, operator or manager of a restaurant or food establishment whose permit has been suspended and seized shall have a reasonable time within which to correct the violations of this chapter or of the laws of the state leading to the suspension and seizure, and if the corrections are not made within a reasonable time not to exceed 120 days, the Health Officer shall revoke the permit.
(B) Before a suspended permit shall be reinstated, the owner, operator or manager of any restaurant or food establishment for which the permit to operate has been suspended shall be required to correct the conditions which caused the county’s Health Officer to suspend the permit. Upon the corrections, the permit to operate shall be returned to the permittee.
(C) In case a permit has been revoked, it shall not be reinstated, and the owner, operator or manager of a restaurant or food establishment whose permit has been revoked shall forthwith cease to operate the restaurant or food establishment and shall only be entitled to commence the operation after making a new application as provided for in this chapter and after having received a new permit to operate.
(1966 Code, § 7-7) (Ord. 187, Art. 2, §§ 6, 7, 8)