Ordinance - 970ORDINANCE NO. 970
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
WEST COVINA AMENDING SECTION 6239 OF THE WEST
COVINA MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO THE REVOCATION
AND SUSPENSION OF BUSINESS LICENSES.
• follows: The City Council of the City of West Covina does ordain as
SECTION 1. Section 6239 of the west Covina Municipal Code
is hereby amended to read as follows:
116239. REVOCATION AND SUSPENSION.
Every license heretofore or hereafter granted under the
provisions of this Chapter or any preceding ordinance is granted
and used by all parties receiving or using the same subject
to the express condition that the City Council may revoke the
same at any time when it is determined by the City Council that
any state of facts exists upon which it would be authorized to
deny an application for such license, or permit, if requested,
or that the premises where the business is conducted are not in
good and sanitary condition, are not properly drained or are in
a dangerous condition, or that the person to whom such license
was issued or any of his agents, servants or employees, or any
other person in charge of or employed about the business for
which the same was issued, has violated any of the conditions
of the license, or permit, if any, or terms of this Code or of
any law of the State, now or hereafter in force, regulating the
occupation or business for which such license is issued, or that
the license or permit was obtained by fraudulent representations,*
• or that the holder thereof is an unfit person to be trusted with
the privileges granted by said license, or has conducted his
business in an immoral or disorderly manner, or has failed to make
every reasonable effort to maintain order among his customers and
patrons and to prevent violations of law or ordinance by them,
or that the business has been so conducted as to be a public
nuisance; provided, however, that no license shall be revoked
without giving the holder thereof an opportunity to appear before
the City Council and be heard in his own behalf. The City Council
shall cause a notice of such hearing to be given to the holder
of such license at a time not less than five days before the
hearing. At the time set for the hearing or at the date to which
said hearing may be continued by the City Council, the holder
of the license may be heard and may present any facts to show
why such license should not be revoked, and the City Council shall
hear statements from other persons who may attend the hearing and
present reasons why the license should or should not be revoked,
and may, if it so desires, place under oath and question any
person before it; provided, that the City Council may close the
hearing when it is convinced that no public good will result
from its continuance. At the close of the hearing, or at any
time within thirty days thereafter, the City Council shall deter-
mine from the facts produced at the hearing, and from any other
facts in its possession, whether or not the license should be
revoked, and shall make its order accordingly and may make such
order conditional upon the doing or not doing of any act by the
. holder of the license or his agents or servants, which.the City
Council deems for the public good. On the revocation of the
license no part of the money in the hands of the City shall be
returned, but such license fee shall be forfeited to the City.
Notice of such revocation shall be given to the license holder
by the City Clerk. A license may be suspended for such time and
subject to such conditions as the City Council may impose in the
same manner and for the same reasons that a license may be revoked.
SECTION 2. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of
this ordinance and shall cause the same to be published as required by
law.
Passed and approved th
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES SS.
CITY OF WEST COVINA
LELA W. PRESTON Deuty
I,��, city Clerk of the City of West Covina,
do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 970 was
regularly introduced and placed upon its first reading at a regular
meeting of the City Council on the 23rd day of May , 1966.
That, thereafter, said ordinance was cTuiy adopteff—anci passe at a regu-
lar meeting of the City Council on the 13th day of June 1966,
by the following vote, to wit:
.AYES: Councilmen: Gillum, Nichols, Snyder, Gleckman, Mayor Krieger
NOES: Councilmen: None
ABSENT:Councilmen: None
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