(A) The City shall revoke a license if a cause of suspension in section 10-1109 occurs and the license has been suspended within the preceding twelve (12) months.
(B) The City shall revoke a license if the Chief of Police determines that:
(1) A licensee gave false or misleading information in the material submitted to the Chief of Police during the application process.
(2) A licensee or employee has knowingly allowed possession, use or sale of controlled substances on the premises.
(3) A licensee or an employee has knowingly allowed prostitution on the premises.
(4) A licensee or an employee knowingly operates the sexually oriented business during a period of time when the licensee’s license was suspended.
(6) On two (2) or more occasions within a twelve (12) month period, a person or persons committed an offense occurring in or on the licensed premises of a crime listed in section 10-1105(A)(9)(a) for which a conviction has been obtained, and the person or persons were employees of the sexually oriented business at the time the offenses were committed.
(7) A licensee or an employee has knowingly allowed any act of sexual intercourse, sodomy, oral copulation, masturbation. or sexual contact to occur in or on the licensed premises. The licensee shall not be issued a sexually oriented business license for one (1) year from the date revocation became effective. If, subsequent to revocation, the Chief of Police finds that the basis for the revocation has been corrected or abated, the applicant may be granted a license if at least ninety (90) days have elapsed since the date of revocation became effective. If the license was revoked under subsection (B)(5) above, an applicant may not be granted another license until the appropriate number of years required under section 10-1105(A)(9)(b) has elapsed.
(8) The determination by the City as to the existence or noncompliance with the above matters shall be made in an open hearing after having given the applicant or license holder or its representatives fifteen (15) days’ written notice of said hearing, and at said hearing the license holder or its representatives may present oral or written evidence in support of the continuance of its license and may confront and question any witnesses or evidence in opposition to the continuation of its license.
(C) Also see section 10-123 of this Code for grounds for revocation and suspension of alcoholic beverage licenses. (Ord. No. 617, 6/17/03)