As used in this chapter, the following words
and phrases shall have the following meanings:
GARDENER or LANDSCAPER
Includes any person engaged in the business of gardening
or landscaping in the Village of Valley Stream.
GARDENING or LANDSCAPING
The business of tending, planting, preparation, installation,
maintaining or managing of lawns, gardens, flower beds, shrubbery,
trees or landscaping of every nature and description on real property
which the person performing the work does not own. The spraying of
lawns, gardens, flower beds, shrubbery or trees shall be considered
for the purpose of this chapter as "gardening or landscaping."
LICENSEE
Includes any person who has been granted a license by the
Village Clerk to engage in gardening or landscaping within the Village
of Valley Stream.
PERSON
Includes any individual, firm, partnership, corporation or
business of any nature.
PUBLIC HIGHWAY
Includes any road open to the public for its full width from
property line to property line, including sidewalk area, whether or
not installed.
PUBLIC PROPERTY
Includes any real property owned by the Village of Valley
Stream.
VEHICLE
Includes every device in, upon or by which a person or property
is or may be transported upon a public highway.
No person over the age of 18 years shall engage
in the business of gardening or landscaping in the Village of Valley
Stream without first having obtained a license therefor from the Village
Clerk.
The Village Clerk shall have the authority to
grant licenses under this chapter.
The application for a license to operate or
conduct business as a gardener or landscaper in the Village of Valley
Stream shall be made, in writing, to the Village Clerk and signed
by the applicant. The application shall set forth such information
as required by the Village Clerk and the Superintendent of Public
Works.
[Amended 11-19-2018 by L.L. No. 26-2018]
Any person, firm, company, association, corporation
or business of any kind who fails to comply with any of the provisions
of this chapter shall be punished by a fine of not more than $2,000
and/or 15 days in jail. Any license issued under this chapter shall
be revoked upon a conviction of a third offense.
No license shall be issued to a person if a
prior license issued hereunder to such person was revoked, except
upon good cause shown by such person at a hearing before the Board
of Trustees, when requested by such person.
The provisions of this chapter are declared
to be severable, and if any section, sentence, clause or phrase of
this chapter shall for any such reason be held to be invalid or unconstitutional,
such decision shall not affect the validity of this chapter, but they
shall remain in effect, it being the legislative intent that this
chapter shall stand notwithstanding the invalidity of any part.
This chapter shall take effect immediately.