16.50.080 - Grounds for denial, revocation or suspension of registration.
The administrator may deny, suspend, revoke, or add limitations and conditions to a nonprofit fundraiser registration or person or entity registration on any of the following grounds:
A. Failure to comply with the requirements of state gambling law or of this title for registration.
B. Denial, revocation, or suspension of a state nonprofit fundraiser registration, state person or entity registration, gambling license, key employee license, work permit, registration, or finding of suitability pursuant to state gambling law, or the denial, revocation, suspension of a permit, license or registration or finding of suitability regulating legal gambling in any other state.
C. Objection to the granting of registration, or an order or decision denying an application for registration, by the California Department of Justice or California Gambling Control Commission.
D. The registrant or applicant has violated:
1. Any provision of this chapter, including any regulation promulgated thereunder, or any other applicable provision of this title;
2. Any provision of state gambling law;
3. Any provision of state law relating to nonprofit organizations; or
4. Any provision of the law of any other state or of federal law relating to gambling or nonprofit organizations.
E. The registrant or applicant has failed to timely pay any fees due under this title.
F. The registrant or applicant has violated any limitation or condition on the registration.
G. Failure to cooperate with the administrator as required pursuant to Section 16.26.010, or failure to provide information, documentation, and assurances required for qualification or failure to reveal any material fact relating to qualification for registration.
H. Supplying information to the administrator that is untrue or misleading.
I. Conviction, including a plea of nolo contendere, of any crime punishable as a felony; including a conviction by any federal court or a court in another state for a crime that would constitute a felony in California.
J. Conviction, including a plea of nolo contendere, of any crime punishable as a misdemeanor, including conviction by any federal court or a court in another state for a crime that would constitute a misdemeanor in California, involving dishonesty, moral turpitude, prostitution, sale or possession for sale of a controlled substance, gambling, or any other crime substantially related to the qualifications, functions, or duties of regulated gambling or a gambling business, within a ten-year period immediately preceding the submission of the application.
K. Association of the registrant or applicant with criminal profiteering activity or organized crime as defined in the California Penal Code Section 186.2 of the California Control of Profits of Organized Crime Act, Penal Code Sections 186 et seq.
L. Contumacious defiance by the registrant or applicant relating to any legislative investigative body or any other investigative body in any state of the United States.
M. The registrant or applicant is a partner, officer, director or shareholder or has any financial interest in any business organization that engaged in any form of prohibited gambling pursuant to the California Penal Code whether within or outside of the state.
N. The registrant or applicant has committed any act involving dishonesty, fraud or deceit with the intent to substantially benefit the applicant registrant, or benefit another, or substantially injure another.
O. The registrant or applicant is less than twenty-one years of age.
(Ord. 28517.)
