No one shall engage in the business of emptying or cleaning
any privy, cesspool or septic tanks in the borough without a license
to do so.
Anyone desiring to engage in such business in the borough shall
apply to the board of health for the required license and shall pay
the license fee herein specified.
An application for a license hereunder shall be in writing,
shall be signed and sworn to by the applicant or someone authorized
by the applicant to do so and shall contain:
A statement of the number and description of the vehicles to
be employed in the conduct of the business in the borough.
A statement of the place of business and the telephone number
of the applicant and the name of the person in charge thereof to whom
complaint against the applicant, if licensed, may be made and upon
whom notice of any proceeding affecting the license may be served.
If the place of business of the applicant is elsewhere than
in the borough, a designation of the operator of every such vehicle
while within the borough as the agent of the applicant, if licensed,
upon whom any such notice may be served, which designation shall be
irrevocable so long as the license remains outstanding.
Each license issued under this chapter shall expire on June
30 following its issuance, and shall not be renewed by the board of
health except upon application filed with the board not later than
the preceding June 1.
Twenty ($20.00) dollars for the operation of the licensed business
in the borough is hereby established as the annual license fee.
Every licensee shall, within 48 hours after emptying or cleaning
any privy, cesspool or septic tank within the borough, file with the
health officer of the board of health a certificate of record. The
certificate of record shall be on forms provided by the board of health
and shall contain the location of the structure cleaned, the name
of the owner or occupant thereof, the date and hours of the performance.
The certificate of record shall be deemed to have been filed upon
the mailing of same in an envelope addressed to the health officer
of the board of health with sufficient postage thereon within the
48-hour period.
A licensee failing to file the necessary certificate of record
within the time specified above shall be liable to revocation or suspension
of this license. If a license is revoked, the former license holder
shall be ineligible for a license hereunder for 12 months following
the revocation.