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any provision of this Act, or for noncompliance with the provisions of this Act, or for any noncompliance with any lawful rule or regulation promulgated by the Department under this Act, or because the licensee is determined to be ineligible for a cigarette machine operator's license for any one or more of the reasons provided for in Section 1-15 of this Act. Any cigarette machine operator aggrieved by any decision of the Department under this Section may, within 30 20 days after notice of the decision, protest and request a hearing. Upon receiving a written request for a hearing, the Department shall give notice in writing to the cigarette machine operator requesting the hearing that contains a statement of the charges preferred against the cigarette machine operator and that states the time and place fixed for the hearing. The Department shall hold the hearing in conformity with the provisions of this Act and then issue its final administrative decision in the matter to the cigarette machine operator. In the absence of a written protest and request for a hearing within 30 20 days, the Department's decision shall become final without any further determination being made or notice given. No license so revoked shall be reissued to any cigarette machine operator for a period of 6 months after the date of the final determination of such revocation. No license shall be reissued at all so long as the person who would receive the SB3019 Enrolled LRB104 20255 HLH 33706 b Public Act 104-0468