§ 6-52-15. Suspension or revocation.

A.

Whenever the director of police services has reason to believe that a permittee under this article or any of the permittee's servants, agents or employees in the use, operation or maintenance of any mechanical amusement device or poolroom has violated any law of the state or any provisions of this chapter or any ordinance of the city which is directly related to the public amusement device for which the permittee has been granted a permit, the director of police services shall give such permittee at least three days' notice of a hearing to determine whether the permit(s) should be suspended or revoked. At the revocation or suspension hearing, the director of police services, or his or her designee, shall hear testimony from both the police department and the permittee. The permittee shall have a right to representation by an attorney at such hearing. At the conclusion of the hearing, the director of police services, or his or her designee, shall give written notice of the decision to the permittee, such notice to include notice of permittee's right to appeal to the city council. The action of the director of police services, or his or her designee, shall be final unless his or her action is appealed to the city council.

B.

Appeals shall be heard before the city council, provided the permittee notifies the city comptroller in writing, within ten days after notice of suspension or revocation is mailed to permittee at his or her business address given on his or her application form, of his or her intention to appeal. If such a hearing is requested, it shall be heard at such time as the city council so designates, and the comptroller shall notify the permittee of the time, date and place of the hearing.

C.

Mechanical amusement devices or pool or billiard tables, as defined in section 6-52-1, shall be removed by the permittee from the establishment when a permit has been suspended or revoked and an appeal has not been requested to the city council as above set forth. If these items are not removed after the suspension or revocation is filed and there is no appeal taken to the city council, they shall be deemed public nuisances and on order of the director of police services shall be removed from the permit location with costs for such removal to be assessed against the permittee.

(Code 1967, § 31-67; Code 1985, § 29-79; Ord. No. 1113, § 2, 11-2-1967; Ord. No. 420, § 1, 4-1-1969; Ord. No. 2726, §§ 1, 16, 7-5-1978)