840.15 REVOCATION OF PERMIT.
(a) The Director of Department of Police or his/her designee shall revoke a permit if a cause of suspension in Section 840.14 occurs and the permit has been suspended within the preceding twelve months.
(b) The Director of Department of Police or his/her designee, shall revoke a permit upon determining that:
(1) A permittee gave false or misleading information in the material submitted during the application process that tended to enhance the applicant’s opportunity for obtaining a permit; or
(2) A permittee or an employee has knowingly allowed possession, use or sale of controlled substances in or on the premises; or
(3) A permittee or an employee has knowingly allowed prostitution on the premises; or
(4) A permittee or an employee knowingly operated the sexually oriented business during a period of time when the permittee’s permit was suspended; or
(5) A permittee has been convicted of a “specified criminal act” for which the time period required in Section 840.10 has not elapsed; or
(6) On two or more occasions within a twelve month period, a person or persons committed an offense, occurring in or on the permitted premises, constituting a “specified criminal act” 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. The fact that a conviction is being appealed shall have no effect on the revocation of the permit; or
(7) A permittee is convicted of tax violations for any taxes or fees related to a sexually oriented business, or
(8) A permittee or an employee has knowingly allowed any act of sexual intercourse, sodomy, oral copulation, masturbation, or any other specified sexual activities to occur in or on the permitted premises.
(9) A permittee has failed to comply with Section 840.08(m).
(c) When the Director of Department of Police or his designee revokes a permit, the revocation shall continue for one year. The permittee shall not be issued a sexually oriented business permit for any other location during the one year period after the revocation became effective.
(Ord. 96-20. Passed 3-7-96.)