Q&A
Enforcement, revocation, and shutdown procedures for hotels
1:01:05
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3 min
Council Member Farías inquires about the procedures for enforcing regulations, revoking licenses, and shutting down hotels, particularly concerning the impact on employees. DCWP officials explain their current practices and concerns about the proposed bill.
- DCWP recommends amendments to clarify revocation procedures in the bill
- When closing businesses, DCWP works with other city agencies to minimize negative impacts on employees
- There's typically a notice period before enforcement actions
- DCWP emphasizes the importance of due process for licensees
- The agency wants to clarify what violations would merit revocation
- Unlike violations, which may have cure opportunities, revocation typically doesn't allow for curing
Amanda Farías
1:01:05
Okay.
1:01:05
And then in terms of the licensing meeting to be enforceable that I know you highlighted, that's like an important component that you folks are looking into, which I think concerns all of us, a lot of the laws that we have.
1:01:16
It all comes back to us in discussion as members, and it's not enforceable, how do we make sure people feel safe or people feel like local government is working for them?
1:01:27
With revocation and shutting down hotels, how will that necessarily work for, like, employees or in your experience for employees?
1:01:35
Being able to ensure that if a hotel were to shut down that they have somewhere to go to work and or severance and or unemployment,
Vilda Vera Mayuga
1:02:00
Thank you, majority leader.
1:02:03
Right now, I mean, it is one of the recommendations that we have, right, for amendments to the bill because it's not clear on the revocation.
1:02:11
For example, when I gave that example of ceiling or padlock in a hotel, not just focus on workers, but also on any hotel guests.
1:02:20
In terms of workers in what we've done in other situations, other industries, but we do have the authority and have successfully used it to close down a store, We do work with other city agencies to ensure that we're not again impacting negatively.
UNKNOWN
1:02:37
Mhmm.
Vilda Vera Mayuga
1:02:38
An employee, there's a notice period that goes in anyway.
1:02:42
We are going to I mean, once the bill is out there, it's it's final, we would obviously develop some medication to make sure that all involved are aware and prepared for where enforcement starts.
1:02:55
And then, also, once that happens, even are still in authority right now in other places, we're gonna post the notice that's gonna give a period of time for the business to either correct the violations or, you know, do things that they may need to do, and that notice will be very clear also for the workers since it is publicly posted.
Amanda Farías
1:03:16
Okay.
1:03:17
And then we I see in the build language, there's a 2 year time span for the license.
1:03:23
If there's revocation, what's the timeline for cure?
1:03:26
I didn't I didn't haven't necessarily seen that in the build yet.
1:03:31
And wondering if you folks have a recommendation.
Melissa Iachan
1:03:35
If I might just say, we have concerns with the bill because we want to make very clear what violations are and what kind of lead to revocation.
1:03:45
We, in all our license categories are very, very committed to providing licensees due process.
1:03:52
And so as with all of our license categories, we provide due process within our own DCWP processes in terms of notice of intent to revoke.
1:04:02
Or deny.
1:04:04
And of course, there's always the opportunity to appeal with an article 78, but we look forward to clarifying what the actual standards would be that would merit revocation Because once you get there, it's not typical to allow to cure.
1:04:22
That's usually, you know, the due process is you can argue the merits and you have that opportunity, but violations themselves there are cure opportunities off.
1:04:34
Okay.
