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<baltimore-city-law heading="Part 3 – Administrative Sanctions">
  <section prefix="§" num="9-16" heading="Denial, suspension, or revocation.">
    <text>The Finance Department or, on appeal, the Finance Director may deny, suspend, or revoke a late-night operations license or renewal license for any of the following causes:</text>
    <para num="(1)">failing to pay the applicable license fee on or before the due date;</para>
    <para num="(2)">making any material false statement in any application for an initial or renewal license;</para>
    <para num="(3)">failing to abate within 30 days of receipt any notice or citation for violating any provision of the &lt;cite data-path="|building-codes"&gt;City Building, Fire, and Related Codes Article&lt;/cite&gt;, &lt;cite data-path="|health"&gt;Health Code Article, or Zoning Code Article; or&lt;/cite&gt;</para>
    <para num="(4)">failing to comply with any provision of:<para num="(i)">this subtitle;</para>
      <para num="(ii)">a rule or regulation adopted under this subtitle; or</para>
      <para num="(iii)">a condition imposed under this subtitle on the license.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord.  12-011</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 15-336</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">15-427</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="9-17" heading="Fines.">
    <text>For any violation that is cause for suspending or revoking a license, the Finance Department or, on appeal, the Finance Director may, instead of or in addition to suspending or revoking the license, impose a civil fine of:</text>
    <para num="(1)">for a 1&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt; offense, not more than $500; and</para>
    <para num="(2)">for any subsequent offense, not more than $1,000.</para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord.  12-011</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 15-336</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="9-18" heading="Appeal to Finance Director.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Scope of section.">This section does not apply to the denial of a license or a renewal license under § 9-8 or § 9-10(d).</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Appeal.">
      <para num="(1)">Within 30 days of receiving the Department’s decision to deny, suspend, or revoke a license or to impose a civil fine, an aggrieved applicant or licensee may appeal the sanction imposed to the Finance Director for an administrative review.</para>
      <para num="(2)">The filing of an appeal to the Finance Director stays the decision of the Department pending the Director’s decision.</para>
      <para num="(3)">Within 30 days after the timely filing of an appeal, the Finance Director must notify the applicant or licensee in writing of his or her decision.</para>
      <para num="(4)">The Finance Director may affirm, reject, increase, or otherwise modify any or all of the sanctions from which the appeal was taken.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord.  12-011</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 15-336</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="9-19" heading="Judicial and appellate review.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Judicial review.">A person aggrieved by a decision of the Finance Director under this subtitle may seek judicial review of that decision by petition to the Circuit Court for Baltimore City in accordance with the Maryland Rules of Procedure.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Stays.">
      <para num="(1)">The filing of a petition for judicial review does not stay the decision of the Finance Director.</para>
      <para num="(2)">However, on motion and after hearing, the Court may grant a stay as provided in the Maryland Rules of Procedure.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Appellate review.">A party to the judicial review may appeal the court’s final judgment to the Court of Special Appeals in accordance with the Maryland Rules of Procedure.</para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord.  12-011</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 15-336</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 19-332</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="9-20" reserved="true" />
</baltimore-city-law>
