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(1) Any person desiring to operate a food sen ice establishment shaH must make written application for a permit, license or certific.ate, on forms provided by the regulatory authority. The application shaH must include the name and address of each applicant, the location and type of the proposed food sel v ice establishment, and the signature of each applicant and the applicable fee. Failure to provide all required information and fees. or falsifying information provided on the application may result in the denial of the application or revocation of a previously approved permit. The denial or revocation is in addition to other penalties provided for under Section 18.089 of the city code. (2) Prior to the approval of an application for a permit, license or certificate, the regulatory authority shaH must inspect the proposed food set v ice establishment to detel mine for compliance with the requirements of this division. (c) Fees. (1) The applicant for a permit under this division shaH will pay all fees to the city department of environmental health. (2) Fees for food setVic.e establishment permits are established by the city council. (d) Issuance. The regulatory authority shaH will issue a permit, lic.ense or celtific.ate to the applicant if its inspection reveals that the proposed food ser v ice establishment complies with the requirements of this division. ( e) Suspension. (1) The regulatory authority may; without warning, notice or hearing, suspend any permit, lic.ellse 01 eel tific.ate to operat~ a food set v ic.e establishment if the operation of the food sel v ice establishment constitutes an imminent hazard to public health. Suspension is effective upon service of the notice required by subsection (e)(2) of this section. When Whenever a permit, license 01 eertific.ate is suspended, food service operations shaH must immediately cease. Whehevel a peuuit, license or cel tifiGate is suspended, the holder of the pel mit, license 01 certifiGclte shall be affulded an opportunity for a hearing ~ithin ten days of rec.eipt of a request for a heat ing. (2) Whenever a permit, license 01 ccrtific.ate is suspended, the regulatory authority must notify the holder of the permit, llc.euse 01 c.eltific.ate or the person in eha:tge operating the food establishment shall be notified in writing that the permit, liGense Ot eel tific.ate is, upon service of the notice, immediately suspended.. and that an opportunity for a hearing will be provided if a written-request for a hearing is filed with the regulatory authority by the holder of the permit, licel1se or c.ertifieate within ten days. If a request for a hearing is received during the ten day period. the reRulatory authority must hold a hearing on the suspension within ten days of receipt of the request. If no written request for a hearing is filed within ten days, the suspension is sustained. The regulatory authority may end the suspension at any time if reasons for suspension no longer exist. (f) Revocation. The regulatory authority may, after providing opportunity for a hearing, revoke a permit, lic.ense 01 certificate for serious or repeated violations of any of the requirements of this division or for interference with the regulatory authority in the performance ofits duties. Prior to revocation, the regulatory authority shaH must notify the holder of the permit, lie~nse or c.el tificate or the person in c.l1aIse, operating the food establishment in writing, of the reason for which the permit, license 01 c.el tilkate is subject to revocation and that the permit, lic.ense 01 c.el tifieate shaH will be revoked at the end of the ten days following service of notice unless a written request for a hearing is filed with the regulatory authority by the holder of the permit, license 01 Geltific.a:te within a the ten-day ten day period. If ~ no request for ~ hearing is not filed within the ten-da} ten day period, the revocation of the permit, license or eel tific.ate becomes is final. -2-