[HISTORY: Adopted by the Floral Park Village Board 3-23-1993 as L.L. No. 1-1993. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Maintenance of premises — See Ch. 65.
Property maintenance — See Ch. 66.
Rubbish, garbage and recycling — See Ch. 72.
Streets and sidewalks — See Ch. 81.
Trees — See Ch. 92.
As used in this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings:
GARDENING or LANDSCAPING
The business of tending, planting, preparing, installing, maintaining or managing of lawns, gardens, flower beds, shrubbery, trees or landscaping of every nature and description on real property which the person performing such work does not own. Persons engaged in the business of spraying lawns, gardens, flower beds, shrubbery or trees shall be considered for the purposes of this chapter as engaged in the business of "gardening" or "landscaping."
PERSON
Includes any individual, firm, partnership, corporation or business of any form, style or nature.
PUBLIC HIGHWAY
Includes any street open to the public for its full width from property line to property line, including the sidewalk area, whether or not installed.
PUBLIC PROPERTY
Includes any real property owned by the Village of Floral Park.
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 Floral Park without first having obtained a permit therefor from the Village Administrator.
A. 
This chapter shall not apply to any person who operates, at a fixed location within the village, any garden supply or florist shop, commercial nursery or greenhouse or similar type of business nor to any agent or employee of such person.
B. 
This chapter shall not be applicable to any person authorized by the State of New York by license or otherwise to conduct any of the businesses or operations regulated under this chapter.
C. 
This chapter shall not be applicable to any person engaged solely in the business of landscape engineering or garden planning who does not perform any of the functions heretofore described under the definition of gardening or landscaping.
This Village Administrator shall have the power to grant the permits required by this chapter.
The application for a permit to operate or conduct business as a gardener or landscaper in the village shall be made, in writing, to the Village Administrator and shall be signed by the applicant. The application shall set forth:
A. 
The names and addresses of the applicant and of the officers and directors, if any.
B. 
The applicant's place of residence and/or business for the past five years.
C. 
The license numbers of any vehicles to be used in providing the service.
D. 
The name of any person to be responsible to the village for compliance with the requirements of this chapter while performing gardening or landscaping services within the Village of Floral Park.
A. 
The fee for the permit and decals required by this chapter shall be at the levels fixed, from time to time, by resolution of the Board of Trustees of the Village of Floral Park, which fee is hereby declared to be for the purpose of defraying the cost of the enforcement of this chapter and not solely for the purpose of revenue. One identification decal shall be issued with each permit at no charge. Additional decals shall be issued for an additional fee.
B. 
All permits issued under this chapter shall expire on December 31 of each year.
Any permit granted pursuant to this chapter may be suspended or revoked by the Board of Trustees for good cause, after a public hearing.
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No permittee under this chapter shall make any false promise or willful misrepresentation in connection with the business or operation licensed, nor shall any permittee, in describing the services to be rendered by him, either by an act of commission or omission, knowingly misrepresent the nature of such services.
B. 
No permittee shall conduct himself other than in a courteous, honest and lawful manner at all times.
C. 
No permittee shall operate any power or manual lawn mower or other gardening equipment at any time between the hours of 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. on any day unless otherwise permitted by the Commissioner of Police or the Mayor, in writing.
D. 
No permittee shall burn any wastepaper, rubbish, leaves, cuttings, wood or other waste materials at any time.
E. 
No permittee shall place any garbage, refuse, cuttings, leaves, wood or other materials upon any public highway or public property. All lawn cuttings, leaves and debris accumulated from real property located in the Village of Floral Park must be removed by the permittee and disposed of at his own cost.
F. 
No permittee shall scatter nor, in using any mechanical or electrical blower, cause to be scattered any garbage, refuse, cuttings, leaves or other waste materials on any public highway or public property.
G. 
The permittee shall affix to and display on the left front bumper of each vehicle and on the left rear bumper of any trailer regularly used in the course of its business an identification decal issued by the Village Clerk.
H. 
Gas-powered leaf blowers may be used no earlier than 8:00 a.m. or later than 6:00 p. m. on any weekday, and no earlier than 8:00 a.m. or later than 3:00 p.m. on Saturdays. The use of gas-powered leaf blowers is prohibited at all times on Sunday and on federal and state holidays.
[Added10-15-2019 by L.L. No. 4-2019.[1]]
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Editor's Note: The number of this local law was changed from L.L. No. 5-2019 by Res. No. 2019-256, adopted 12-17-2019.
Any person who fails to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter shall be punished by a fine of not less than $50 and not more than $100 for the first offense; and not less than $100 and not more than $200 for the second offense, both of which were committed during the same calendar year; and not less than $200 and not more than $500 for the third offense, all of which were committed during the same calendar year. Any license issued pursuant to this chapter shall be revoked upon conviction of a third offense.
If any section, sentence, clause or phrase of this chapter shall, for any reason, be held to be invalid or unconstitutional by a court of proper jurisdiction, such decision shall not effect the validity of this chapter as a whole or any part or provision thereof, other than the parts so decided to be invalid or unconstitutional.
This local law shall take effect immediately.