(a) Any certificates, permits, or licenses, upon application of the holder thereof and in the discretion of the Arkansas Department of Transportation, may be amended or revoked, in whole or in part, or may upon complaint or on the department's own initiative, after notice and hearing, be suspended, changed, or revoked, in whole or in part, for:
(1) Willful failure to comply with any provision of this subchapter, with any lawful order or rule of the department promulgated thereunder, or with any term, condition, or limitation of the certificate, permit, or license;
(2) Failure to render reasonably continuous service in the transportation of all of the commodities authorized to be transported over all of the routes authorized to be traversed;
(3) Failure to file a complete annual motor carrier report pursuant to Acts 1927, No. 129, as amended; or
(4) Failure to timely pay ad valorem property taxes.
(b) It is the intent of this section to require the department to suspend or revoke, after notice and hearing as hereafter provided, all or such part of the authority granted by any certificate which is not exercised reasonably continuously.
(c) No certificate, permit, or license shall be revoked, except under application of the holder or violation of § 23-13-227, unless the holder thereof willfully fails to comply within a reasonable time, not less than thirty (30) days, to be fixed by the department, with a lawful order of the department commanding obedience to the provisions of this subchapter, or to the rules of the department, or to the terms, conditions, or limitation of such certificate, permit, or license found by the department to have been violated by the holder.