(A) (1) Pursuant to notice, the Municipal Court shall conduct a hearing pursuant to this subchapter, at which hearing both the complainant and the person so charged with maintaining such nuisance, together with such witnesses as they may produce shall be fully heard.
(2) Upon such hearing a continuance for proper cause shown may be granted at the instance of either party.
(B) If, upon the hearing of the matter, the Municipal Court shall determine that such nuisance exists as charged in the complaint, it shall provide an order for its abatement as follows:
(1) If such nuisance be in a place of business or other establishment for the conduct of which the city has issued a license, then such license may be revoked.
(2) If the nuisance found to exist be that of conducting a house of ill fame bawdy house, house of prostitution, gambling house, or place for the handling, sale, or other disposition of intoxicating liquors contrary to the statutes of the state or the provisions of this code of ordinances or other ordinances of the city, the Municipal Court order may order said nuisance to be abated within any means authorized by city, state, or federal law; and
(3) If any nuisance be found to exist other than those specially enumerated in divisions (A) and (B) above, and the provisions of this subchapter does not provide for its abatement, the Municipal Court may issue a warrant, upon the complaint of any official of the city, or any bona fide resident, filed before the Municipal Court, and prosecution shall immediately be had of any person shown to be maintaining or harboring such nuisance.
(Ord. 2022-07, passed 4-4-2022)