As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
COMMERCIAL LANDSCAPER
A person or entity whose business involves the placing, planting, arranging, trimming, cutting and removing of trees and the maintenance of lawns, trees, bushes, shrubs, gardens and related appurtenances thereto, including but not limited to landscape ties, stone walls and walks on land or property for the purpose of improving the same.
LAWN CARE OR LAWN MAINTENCE CONTRACTOR
A person or entity whose business involves only the cutting, planting, edging and maintenance of lawns where no placing, planting, arranging, trimming, cutting and removing of trees and/or the construction or design of plantings, retaining walls, ponds, walks, etc. is performed.
VEHICLE
Every device in, upon or by which a person or property is or may be transported upon a highway.
A. 
The application for a license to operate or conduct business as a commercial landscaper in the State of New Jersey shall be made in writing to the State of New Jersey.
B. 
The application for a license to operate or conduct business as a lawn care or lawn maintenance company in the City of Linwood (if not licensed by the State of New Jersey) shall be made to the Construction Office. The applicant shall provide:
(1) 
The name, address and telephone number of the applicant.
(2) 
The character and type of the substance, e.g., grass clippings, brush, twigs or leaves, that the applicant will be dumping in his operation.
(3) 
The location where the debris is to be taken and the name and telephone number of the company or organization to receive such debris.
(4) 
A copy of the applicant's current valid insurance certificate.
A. 
The annual fee for all new lawn care and/or lawn maintenance licenses shall be $200, and a fee for all renewal licenses shall be in the amount of $100 per year, payable to the City of Linwood. Licenses shall be renewed on or before January 1 of each year and shall expire on the 31st day of December each year. Licenses are nontransferable.
[Amended 3-10-2010 by Ord. No. 5-2010]
B. 
License renewals must be received no later than May 31 to be eligible as a renewal. Those applied for after May 31 will be considered as a new license and are subject to the two-hundred-dollar new license fee.
[Amended 7-11-2012 by Ord. No. 14-2012]
C. 
A maximum of four license decals may be issued to each lawn care or lawn maintenance contractor. Lawn care or lawn maintenance contractors requesting additional license decals will be required to submit a payment of $5 per additional license decal requested.
D. 
Lawn care or lawn maintenance contractors are required to display their current license decal in the rear or side window of each vehicle.
Every commercial landscaper, lawn care or lawn maintenance contractor operating within the City of Linwood shall be required to comply with the following:
A. 
The name of the company should be clearly indicated on both sides of any vehicle used in said operation. The letters shall be no less than three inches in height and shall include the address and telephone number.
B. 
Tags identifying that vehicle shall be properly registered and must be displayed on each vehicle.
C. 
All grass clippings, brush, twigs or leaves produced from mowing, edging or other landscaping work must be removed from the sidewalks in front of a property owner's home.
D. 
Control hours for the operation of leaf blowers shall be from 7:00 a.m. until sunset or 8:00 p.m. whichever shall occur first.
E. 
All trucks transporting grass clippings and other types of yard debris or landscaping materials shall be properly covered to prevent the littering of public streets.
F. 
No commercial landscaper, lawn care or lawn maintenance contractor shall blow any grass clippings or other debris into any City street or into any City storm drain.
Any person, firm, association or corporation violating the provisions of this article shall be subject to a fine not less than $100 on the first offense and a fine not to exceed $500 on a second or subsequent offense.