Inglewood Municipal Code § 8-103 Suspension and Revocation of Permits and Licenses

All permits and licenses authorized and issued under the provisions of this Article shall be subject to, and accepted as subject to:

(a) Immediate suspension by the Administrative Officer under the circumstances provided below until a decision is rendered by the City Council pursuant to this Article. The matter of such suspension shall be submitted to the City Council at the first meeting following the Administrative Officer's action. A permit or license may be immediately suspended if the Administrative Officer finds that:

(1) The Attorney General has suspended or revoked an applicant's registration under the California Gaming Registration Act, or

(2) A permittee/licensee, or any agent or employee thereof with the knowledge of such permittee/licensee, has violated or permitted, allowed or caused the violation of any provision of this Article, any regulation issued pursuant to this Article, any condition of approval imposed upon the issuance of the permit or card club license, or any state law or regulation relating to the operation of a card club where the continued operation of the club in the light of such violation jeopardizes, or threatens to jeopardize, the public welfare;

(b) Suspension or revocation by the City Council after a public hearing held after not less than thirty days' notice to the permittee/licensee and after testimony has been taken from the permittee/licensee and/or any other interested person, if the City Council finds that:

(1) The Attorney General has suspended or revoked an applicant's registration under the California Gaming Registration Act, or

(2) A permittee or licensee or any agent or employee thereof with the knowledge of the permittee or licensee, has violated or permitted, allowed or caused the violation of any provisions of this Article, any regulation issued pursuant thereto, any condition of approval imposed upon the issuance of the card club license, or any state or Federal law or regulation relating to the operation of a card club, or

(3) A permittee/licensee has failed to pay, when due and payable, any of the fees provided for in this Article within ten days after written notice of any such failure;

(4) A permittee/licensee has made any fraudulent statements as to a material fact on an application form or as to any other information presented as part of the application process, or

(5) A permittee/licensee knowingly commits any act which would have constituted grounds for denial of an application for a permit or license.

(6) The permittee or licensee has knowingly continued to employ in any card club any individual whom the City Council or any court has found guilty of cheating or using any improper device in connection with any game, whether as a licensee or player at a licensed game, or any person whose conduct of a licensed game as an employee of a licensee resulted in revocation, or suspension of the permit of such permittee,

(7) The permittee or licensee has been convicted of a crime denominated in Section 8-97.1(e)(1). Such a conviction may be deemed by the City Council as suitable grounds for revocation or suspension of the licensee's card club license, prior to the exhaustion of the licensee's appellate rights, if the conviction acts as a detriment to card club activity in the City;

(c) The City Council may limit, condition, suspend or revoke the permit of an individual pointholder or key employee permittee without affecting the license of the card club;

(d) The City Council may order the sale or transfer of points or interest held by an individual pointholder permittee whose permit has been revoked;

(e) The City Council may order a licensed card club to keep an individual pointholder whose permit has been revoked, from coming onto the premises of the card club, or, not to pay such pointholder any remuneration for services as an employee and/or any profits, income or accruals on his investment as a pointholder in the card club.

(Ord. 93-05 3-16-93; Ord. 97-19 9-2-97)

In the event of a violation described in subsections 8-103(b)(2) through (7) immediately above, a fine, not to exceed $10,000 per day for each violation which continues after seven days following written notice from the Administrative Officer of such violation, may be imposed on the licensee in lieu of suspension or revocation; provided, however, that in the event the violation is for nonpayment of fees, the fine shall amount to five percent of the unpaid fees plus one and one-half percent per month accrued daily after the first thirty days.

(Ord. 93-05 3-16-93; Ord. 97-19 9-2-97)

(a) Oral evidence shall be taken only on oath or affirmation.

(b) Both the City and the permittee/licensee shall have the right to call and examine witnesses; to introduce exhibits; to cross-examine witnesses; to introduce exhibits; to cross-examine opposing witnesses on any matter relevant to the issue, whether or not that matter was covered in the direct examination; to impeach any witness regardless of which party first called the witness to testify; and to rebut the evidence against any witness.

(c) The technical rules relating to evidence and witnesses shall not apply. However, only evidence relevant to the subject matter of the hearing and which is not repetitious will be accepted. Hearsay evidence is admissible, but is not sufficient in itself to support a suspension or revocation of the license.

(Ord. 93-05 3-16-93)

The decision of the City Council shall be final and conclusive. Except as specifically provided in Section 8-105.1(2), in the event of suspension or revocation of a license, no part of any license fee previously paid shall be refunded.

(Ord. 93-05 3-16-93)

In the event of revocation, no new permit or license shall be issued to such permittee or licensee except upon application made thereafter as in the case of a new applicant.

(Ord. 93-05 3-16-93)