PHILADELPHIA HOME RULE CHARTER
CHAPTER 10 DEPARTMENT OF LICENSES AND INSPECTIONS AND ITS DEPARTMENTAL BOARDS
§5-1005. Board of License and Inspection Review.
The Board of License and Inspection Review shall provide
a n appeal procedure whereby any person aggrieved by the issuance, transfer,
renewal, refusal, suspension, revocation or cancellation of any City license or
by any notice, order or other action as a result of any City inspection,
affecting him directly, shall upon request be furnished with a written statement
of the reasons for the action taken and afforded a hearing thereon by the Board
of License and Inspection Review. Upon such hearing the Board shall hear any
evidence which the aggrieved party or the City may desire to offer, shall make
findings and render a decision in writing. The Board may affirm, modify,
reverse, vacate or revoke the action from which the appeal was taken to
it.
ANNOTATION
Sources: No specific source.
Purposes: The Board of License and Inspection Review is a new
agency created for the purpose of affording citizens, adversely affected by the
exercise of licensing and inspection powers vested in City agencies, an orderly
procedure, in conformity with due process, for the review of action taken
against them. Decisions of the Board are to be binding upon the administrative
agency of the City involved, subject, of course, to such further right of appeal
to the courts as may exist.