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e e Ordinance 1746 Auto Wrecker and Towing Vehicle Page 8 Sec. 6-8. Issuance of certificates of Convenience and Necessity for Auto Wrecker Permits. If the committee finds after the hearing and investigation that public convenience and necessity exists for the operation of said auto wreckers that have been applied for, the committee shall then instruct the City Secretary to notify the applicant in writing within ten (10) days from the last date of the hearing that such vehicle or vehicles are authorized to operate under the provisions of this chapter so long as they are in compliance with all of the provisions hereof and all federal, state, county and city laws and ordinances. The committee shall also instruct the City Secretary to publish an official notice of its findings in the newspaper within such time. Sec. 6-9. Denial of certificate of Convenience and Necessitv for Auto Wrecker Permits. If the committee finds from its hearings and investigation that convenience and necessity does not exist for the operation of the vehicle or vehicles applied for, it shall instruct the City Secretary to so notify the applicant in writing within ten (10) days from the last date of the hearing. An applicant who has been denied a permit or permits by the committee, and whose appeal to the City Council as hereinafter provided, is denied, or the decision not having been appealed to the committee, shall not be permitted to make another application for six (6) months from the date of his filing of the application for the auto wrecker permit. Sec. 6-10. Anneal from the Findinqs of the citv Wrecker Committee. After the committee has made its findings and declares same, the applicant, or any person opposing the said application who entered an appearance at the hearing before the committee, shall have the right to file an appeal within ten (10) days from the receipt of the City Secretary's written notice, or from the date of the published notice, as applicable. The appeal shall be in the form of a letter addressed to the City Secretary stating that an appeal from the decision of the committee is desired. The City Secretary shall notify the City Council of such appeal, and the Council, as soon as practicable, after receiving said notice of appeal together with the findings of the committee, shall grant or deny, in open session, such application for a hearing. If a hearing is granted, the City Council shall sustain, modify or reverse the findings made by the committee and shall so notify the City Secretary of its findings. The findings of the City Council shall be final. If no appeal is made to the city Council from the committee's decision within ten (10) days, as indicated above, then such decision shall become final. Sec. 6-11. Fee for Auto Wrecker Permits. The permit fee to operate an "auto wrecker" or "auto wreckers" shall be FIFTY DOLLARS ($50.00) per year for each "auto wrecker" which the owner is licensed to operate. All permits shall expire on the 31st day of December of each year and shall then be renewed until the next succeeding thirty-first day of December. If a permit is granted subsequent to the first day of January in any permit year, the fee shall be paid pro rata for the balance of the year, and any portion of a month shall be considered an entire month in calculating the fee to be charged.