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A. Any security patrol license or employee permit issued under the terms of this chapter shall be issued upon the following terms and conditions:

1. All security patrol services or systems shall be operated and conducted under the general supervision of the Chief of Police;

2. Uniforms and vehicles used by a licensee or permit holder shall not be the same as or deceptively similar to those used by the Hood River police department or of any other public law enforcement agency in the geographical area. All uniform and vehicle designs and identifying marks shall be approved by the Chief of Police prior to use;

3. That the persons operating any patrol service or system in the city and their employees comply with all state statutes concerning (a) security patrol, (b) guard agencies, and (c) the use and possession of firearms;

4. That neither the person operating any security patrol system or service business nor their employees shall engage in chronic or frequent intoxication or intoxication while on duty;

5. That the persons operating the security patrol business or their employees have not themselves, or on behalf of the security control business, filed a petition for bankruptcy or become insolvent;

6. That the Chief of Police be furnished the names and addresses of all new accounts and notification of the loss of previous accounts. This information must be furnished by the security patrol business within ten days of the opening or closing of all commercial accounts;

7. That all persons operating security patrol businesses and their employees report immediately to the Hood River police department any and all information concerning or relative to criminal or suspected criminal activity within the city;

8. That within seventy-two hours of the termination of employment of a person holding an employee permit, written notice shall be given by employer to the Chief of Police. Failure to give this notice shall result in revocation of the license of the employer;

9. Any license holder ceasing to do business within the city shall, within seventy-two hours of ceasing to do business for a period of seventy-two hours or more under such license within the city, give written notice to the Chief of Police of the cessation of business under the license.

B. Upon breach of any of the conditions set out in this section, or occurrence of any circumstances which would justify the refusal to issue a license or permit in the first instance under the terms of this chapter, or a finding of misrepresentation on any information furnished in or appended to the application for a license or employee permit, such license or employee permit, or both, may be revoked or suspended upon recommendation of the Chief of Police, and after notice of such revocation or suspension has been received by the holder of the license or employee permit.