4.32.093 Revocation of registration.
(a) The city council may revoke any registration issued under this chapter after it has been issued, or any person's privilege to do business in the city of Selah, when after investigation by city staff, any one or more of the following grounds are found to exist:
(1) Illegal issuance of the permit;
(2) Issuance of the permit without authority or power;
(3) Issuance under an unauthorized ordinance or under an ordinance illegally adopted;
(4) Issuance in violation of an ordinance;
(5) When the business registration was procured by fraud or false representation of facts;
(6) When issued through mistake or inadvertence;
(7) When a registration application contains false or misleading statements, evasions or suppressions of material facts.
(b) Other grounds for revocation in addition to those stated in the previous subsection are:
(1) Substantial violations of the terms and conditions on which a registration or permit is issued;
(2) Violation of ordinances or laws authorizing or regulating the registration or permit, or regulating the business, activity or thing for which it is issued;
(3) Conviction of infractions or other offenses under such an ordinance or law;
(4) Wrongful behavior of a substantial character and of a public concern in relation to the registered activity;
(5) When reasonably necessary in the interest of protection of the public health, safety, peace or welfare, to include but not limited to, when a registration holder is conducting business in a facility without public utilities such as water service, sewer service or refuse collection service;
(6) When a business becomes an instrument of or a cover for public disorder, crime or other danger to public safety, morals or health.
(c) Before any such registration shall be cancelled or revoked, the holder of such registration shall be given two weeks notice of a hearing to be held by the city council, at which time the applicant must show cause why such registration to do business should not be revoked. The notice to be given the applicant must state the grounds and the reasons for the forfeiture and revocation and also the date set for the hearing thereon. Provided, however, the city administrator may deny the issuance of a registration or immediately revoke the registration of any business for any of the grounds set forth, when any such registration has been issued for a period of less than seventy-two hours; any such determination by the city administrator shall be deemed conclusive unless the applicant appeals to the city council within five calendar days of notice of the revocation. Pending any such appeal to the city council, the business registration shall remain revoked or denied.
(d) The decision of the city council to revoke a business registration or to sustain the decision of the city administrator revoking a registration on appeal, shall be supported by written findings of fact in support of the decision. Each decision of the city council to revoke a business registration shall set forth a minimum period of time for which the business registration is to be revoked. A minimum time period for the duration of the revocation of a business registration shall be one year unless the city council determines that extraordinary circumstances exist justifying a shorter period of time, in which case the justification for such decision shall be set forth by the city council in writing. In determining the minimum time of the revocation during which reinstatement of a business registration shall not be considered, the city council will consider, among other factors:
(1) The degree of the person's culpability and the conduct leading to the revocation;
(2) The criminal nature of the conduct, if any;
(3) The conduct's effect on the community; and
(4) The registrant's acceptance of the responsibility for their actions or conversely their failure to accept responsibility or admit their wrongdoing. (Ord. 1879, § 1, 2012; Ord. 1778,, 2009.)