It’s down to the wire for Tinseltown.

The Cinemark Tinseltown 17 Theater will face a recommended revocation of its business license if infestation problems with rodent feces and urine and other issues are not corrected by the time Fayette County Health Department conducts an inspection Thursday.

Photographs taken by Fayette County Environmental Health Specialist III Peggy Monkus during a June 9 inspection again showed what had been evident in the months-long issue over health and sanitation concerns. Photographs showed rodent feces present on some floor areas in the theater.

The Thursday inspection will come just hours before Fayetteville City Council holds its bi-monthly meeting.

Contacted Tuesday, City Manager Joe Morton said the matter might not arise at the council meeting, given the inspection’s close proximity in time to the meeting, and the city’s need to obtain the inspection results and to check with its own code enforcement officers over the issues.

In a June 1 letter to Tinseltown Manager Brian Ortega, Morton laid out the city’s concern and presented Ortega with a clear option.

“This letter is to notify you that if these violations are not corrected by the Fayette County re-inspection date of June 15, 2006, I will recommend to the City of Fayetteville Mayor and Council revocation of your business license pursuant to Section 46-102 of the City of Fayetteville Code of Ordinance until such violations are corrected,” the letter said.

Section 46-102(a) states that, “If any holder of a business registration issued by the city should be engaged in unlawful activities, acts which would constitute violations of laws of the State of Georgia, city ordinances, city zoning regulations, city heating, electrical, building codes, and Fayette County health codes, and where such unlawful activities are such as to directly or indirectly affect their qualification to conduct the business for which they were registered or involves the conduct of such business, and where the holder is doing business within the city, the business registration may be revoked or suspended in the manner provided herein.”

Tinseltown still has problems regardless of the outcome of Thursday’s inspection and any action that might be taken by the city council. The theater faces two city court appearances that will be rolled into one on June 20 due to unresolved health and sanitation issues cited during inspections earlier this year.