No person shall engage in the business of receiving,
collecting, transporting or disposing of garbage, rubbish, trash or
other wastes for hire within the Village of Clayton without first
obtaining a license effective upon adoption of this chapter, the fee
for which shall be $150 per year, with such fee modified annually
by the Board resolution, if appropriate.
Applications shall be upon forms supplied by
the Village Clerk. At the time of making such application, the applicant
must furnish to the Clerk a schedule of intended pickup days on the
various highways, streets and roads within the Village of Clayton,
the schedule of rates and charges to be paid by the respective residential
customers, along with a list of vehicles to be used by the applicant
and the license numbers thereof.
Every license issued by the Village Clerk pursuant
to this Article shall be subject to the following conditions and to
such other reasonable conditions as may be imposed by the Village
Board from time to time:
A. Vehicles used by licensed refuse collectors in the
collection and transportation of garbage or rubbish or any other kind
of waste within the Village of Clayton shall be enclosed, watertight
and compacted units, except vehicles used for collection of trash.
B. The vehicles used by collectors and the routes of
collecting shall be subject to inspection and reasonable visitation
by the Village Board and its agents.
C. The licensee shall be required to carry a copy of
his license in each truck used in the operation, showing payment of
the license fee.
D. Term of license; fee.
(1) All licenses issued hereunder shall be valid for a
period of 12 months, expiring May 31 of each calendar year after the
date of issuance. Each licensee shall pay such annual license fee
due on June 1 of each year.
(2) In the event that equipment is being used subsequent
to September 1 of each year, 3/4 of the initial fee shall be payable,
and in the event that the equipment is used subsequent to December
1 of each year, the licensee shall pay 1/2 of the initial license
fee.
E. Revocation.
(1) Violations of any of the foregoing regulations or
any other provisions of this chapter shall be cause for revocation
of the license of any person to whom a license has been issued.
(2) The Village Board, notwithstanding anything to the
contrary herein contained, shall have the power to revoke any license
heretofore issued for cause shown, after a hearing before said Board,
upon five days' written notice specifying the alleged violation to
the license holder, given by certified mail and directed to his principal
office at the address filed with the Village Clerk with the licensee's
application.
F. All trucks must have a minimum liability insurance
for personal injury of $500,000 per occurrence and $500,000 per annual
aggregate, naming the Village of Clayton as an additional insured.
G. No collector shall cease or discontinue business in
the Village of Clayton unless 30 days' prior written notice has been
given to the Village Board, together with proof of publication in
the Thousand Islands Sun and of said notice to all customers serviced
within said Village.
A license may be refused if the applicant, in
the judgment of the Village Clerk, should fail to meet and/or demonstrate
the ability to meet the requirements of this chapter. Any applicant
who has been refused a license by the Village Clerk may appeal to
the Village Board, and from such refusal such license may be granted
or refused by the Village Board.
The refuse collector must give 30 days' prior
written notice to the Village Board of any change in rates, specifying
the amounts thereof, before the same becomes applicable.
The refuse collectors shall not permit refuse
to fall or collect upon the highway, roadway, street or ground from
which they are collecting or over which route they are traveling,
nor shall they permit refuse to set out or to fall from any vehicle
or in any way become distributed upon or along private property or
on the public highways, roadways or streets or thoroughfares.