NS-2972 - Amending and Adding Certain Sections to Articles XIII, XII, and VII of Chapter 21 of Santa Ana Municipal Code Pertaining to Ownership Transfers, ...

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Sec. 21-86. - Same —Suspension and revocation of business license. The collector shall suspend and/or revoke any business license issued or granted pursuant to this Chapter only upon those grounds set forth in Sections 21-45, 21-50, 21- 55, 21-58, 21-59, 21-60, 21-80, 21-136 or upon conditions set forth in any written agreement executed pursuant to Section 21-83. Provided further, that unless revocation is made upon conditions set forth in a written agreement executed pursuant to Section 21-83 or upon licensee's failure to comply with the requirements of Section 21-136, no licensee's business license shall be suspended and/or revoked for failure to pay any annual business license tax as set forth in this Chapter, or any monthly business license tax as set forth in Article XII or Article XIII of this Chapter, or any other amount due pursuant to this Chapter until the penalties accruing for such failure to pay, exclusive of interest, have attained the maximum applicable amount permissible under the terms of this Chapter. Whereupon, the collector shall give a notice of suspension, which notice shall specify the grounds for suspension, and which notice shall be given by personal service or by depositing it in the United States post office in the city, postage prepaid, addressed to the licensee at the address listed on the application of the licensee where he or she consented to receive mail concerning his or her license, to obtain a license or to pay any license tax due or the address listed on the most recent business license renewal affidavit or business license amendment statement; and/or conspicuously posting said notice upon the premises of the business. Service of notice shall be deemed completed upon the date of personal service of said notice, or the date of mailing of said notice, or the date of actual posting of said notice on the premises of the licensee whichever occurs first. In the event said licensee fails, within a period of thirty (30) days' notice, to pay the business license tax due or any other amount due pursuant to this Chapter, or to request a hearing the procedure for which shall be as provided in Section 21-41, then and in that event the collector shall give a notice of revocation. The licensee shall be given at least ten (10) days' notice, which notice shall specify the grounds for revocation, and which notice shall be given pursuant to the hereinabove set forth procedure for giving notice. In the event said licensee fails within the allotted ten (10) day period to request a hearing to show cause why his or her business license should not be revoked, then and in that event the collector shall revoke said person's license and give notice thereof to said person pursuant to the hereinabove set forth procedure for giving notice. In the event said licensee fails to file within ten (10) days thereafter, an appeal pursuant to Chapter 3 of this Code, then the collector's action in revoking said person's business license shall be conclusive as to all matters involved, and the transacting and carrying on by any person of any business pursuant to said license shall thereafter be deemed a misdemeanor. Ordinance No. NS-2972 Page 23 of 25