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(a) The chief of police shall revoke a adult sexually oriented business license if a cause . <br />of suspension in section 18.291 occurs and the license has been suspended within the <br />preceding 12 months. <br />(b) The chief of police shall revoke a license if he determines that: <br />(1) A licensee gave false or misleading information on the material submitted <br />during the application process; <br />(2) A licensee or an employee has knowingly allowed possession, use or sale of <br />controlled substances on the premises; <br />(3) A licensee or an employee has knowingly allowed prostitution on the <br />premises; <br />(4) A licensee or an employee knowingly operated the adult seNtiall� oriented <br />business during a period of time when the license was suspended; <br />(5) A licensee has been convicted of an offense listed in section 18.288(a)(8)a for <br />which the time period required in section 18.288(a)(8)b has not elapsed; <br />(6) On two or more occasions within a 12 -month period, a person committed a • <br />criminal offense in or on the licensed premises and the criminal offense is listed in <br />section 18.288(a)(8)a, for which a conviction has been obtained, and the person <br />was an employee of the adult s� oriented business at the time the offense <br />was committed; <br />(7) A licensee or an employee has knowingly allowed any act of sexual <br />intercourse, sodomy, oral copulation, masturbation or sexual contact to occur in or <br />on the licensed premises. The term "sexual contact" has the same meaning as <br />defined in V.T.C.A., Penal Code, § 21.01; or <br />(8) A licensee is delinquent in payment to the city for hotel occupancy taxes, ad <br />valorem taxes or sales taxes related to the adult seNuall� oriented business. <br />(c) The fact that a conviction is being appealed has no effect on the revocation of the <br />license. <br />(d) Subsection (b)(7) of this section does not apply to adult motels as a ground for <br />revoking the license, unless the licensee or employee knowingly allowed the act of sexual <br />intercourse, sodomy, oral copulation, masturbation or sexual contact to occur in a public <br />place or within public view. <br />(e) When the chief of police revokes a license, the revocation shall continue for one year . <br />and the licensee shall not be issued a adult sexually oriented business license for one <br />26 <br />