(A) If any licensed hotel or rooming house within the city shall be used for purposes of prostitution or for any of the purposes violative of § 130.009, it shall thereby be deemed a public nuisance and any such use of such hotel or rooming house shall further constitute good and sufficient cause for revocation of the license thereof and, if there shall be a conviction of any proprietor, manager, or operator of such hotel or rooming house of a violation, of any inhibitions of § 130.009, such conviction shall be promptly reported to the Common Council by the Trial Officer and the Council shall thereupon issue an order against the holder of the city license for the operation of such hotel or rooming house requiring him or her to appear before the Council at a time and place to be specified in the order, to show cause why such license should not be revoked, and such licensee shall be served with a certified copy of such order by the Chief of Police or any other member of the police force.
(B) (1) The officer delegated to serve such order shall be furnished with two identical certified copies thereof, one to be delivered to the licensee and on the other of which he or she shall endorse his or her official return of service, and after so doing, file it with the City Clerk, and at the time and place specified in the order the Council shall meet, and upon due proof before it of the conviction, as aforesaid, of the proprietor, manager, or operator of the hotel or rooming house in question of a violation of any of the inhibitions of § 130.009, the Council shall adjudge and declare such hotel or rooming house to be a public nuisance and shall revoke the city license therefor and order the discontinuance of its use as such or for any purpose violative of the letter or spirit of § 130.009.
(2) After which, such hotel or rooming house shall be closed and its business as such wholly discontinued and the proprietor thereof shall wholly desist from using it or permitting its use for any purpose violative of the letter or spirit of § 130.009.
(3) For the enforcement of its order, the Council may authorize and direct the institution and prosecution in the name of the city against all necessary or proper parties of a suit in equity in the county circuit court, to have such hotel or rooming house adjudicated, held, and declared to be a public nuisance and to be abated as such and for such other ancillary and special and general relief as may be found proper or effective in the premises.
(Prior Code, § 17-10)
Cross-reference:
Abatement of nuisances, see Charter § 30