(A) No person shall operate a rooming house of five or more rooming units unless he holds a valid rooming house license issued by the office of the Clerk-Treasurer in the name of the operator and for the specific dwelling unit. The operator shall apply to the office of the City Inspector for a permit for that license, which shall be issued by the office of the Clerk-Treasurer upon compliance by the operator, to the satisfaction of the City Inspector, with the applicable provisions of this housing code. This license shall be displayed in a conspicuous place within the rooming house at all times. No such license shall be transferable. Every person holding a license shall give notice in writing to the office of the Clerk-Treasurer and the City Inspector within 24 hours after having sold, transferred, given away or otherwise disposed of ownership of, interest in or control of any rooming house. The notice shall include the name and address of the person succeeding to the ownership or control of that rooming house. Every rooming house license shall expire at the end of one year following its date of issuance, unless sooner suspended or revoked as hereinafter provided.
(B) Any person whose application for a permit to obtain a license to operate a rooming house, as provided in division (A) hereof, has been denied may request and shall be granted a hearing on the
matter.
(C) Whenever, upon inspection of any rooming house, the Health Officer or the City Inspector finds that conditions or practices exist which are in violation of any provision of this housing code, the Health Officer or the City Inspector, as the case may be, shall give notice in writing to the operator of the rooming house that unless those conditions or practices are corrected within a reasonable period, to be determined by the Health Officer or the City Inspector respectively, the operator's rooming house license will be suspended. At the end of such period, the Health Officer or the City Inspector, as the case may be, shall reinspect that rooming house, and if he finds that those conditions or practices have not been corrected, he shall give notice in writing to the operator that the latter's license has been suspended. Upon receipt of notice of suspension, the operator shall immediately cease operation of that rooming house, and no person shall occupy for sleeping or living purposes any rooming unit therein.
(D) Any person whose license to operate a rooming house has been suspended, or who has received notice from the Health Officer or the City Inspector that his license is to be suspended unless existing conditions or practices at his rooming house are corrected, may request and shall be granted a hearing on the matter before the Board of Health or the Board of Public Works and Safety, as the case may be; provided, that if no petition for the hearing is filed within ten days following the day on which the license was suspended, that license shall be deemed to have been automatically revoked.
('71 Code, § 156.46) Penalty, see § 152.99