Every person engaging in the business of selling spruce, cedar, fir or other Christmas trees in the open shall pay a nonapportionable license fee of twenty-five dollars per year for each separate location. Every such person shall also deposit with the director of licensing and code enforcement, in addition to said license fee, the sum of fifty dollars for cleaning the outdoor Christmas tree lot for which such license is issued. Every such outdoor Christmas tree lot shall be inspected by an employee of the city appointed for that purpose by the city manager, not earlier than December 30th nor later than December 31st of the year in which said license is issued, and shall make a written report of such inspection to the city manager immediately following the completion thereof. Such report shall state whether or not the Christmas tree lot has been satisfactorily cleaned and, if not, shall state the particulars in which it is deemed not to have been satisfactorily cleaned. The city manager shall notify the licensee in writing not later than five days following the receipt of such report of any particulars in which it is deemed that said Christmas tree lot has not been satisfactorily cleaned and shall require said licensee to complete the cleaning of said Christmas tree lot in every particular indicated not later than five days from the date of said notice. The licensee shall comply with said notice from the city manager within the time allowed and shall submit evidence to the city manager, or his duly delegated subordinate officer or other city employee, establishing such compliance. Every Christmas tree lot which has not been satisfactorily cleaned on or before the tenth day of January following the year for which such license has been issued shall be caused by the city manager to be cleaned and all charges, costs and expenses of such cleaning shall be deducted from the deposit required by this section. Any remaining portion of such deposit shall be refunded to the licensee as soon after the tenth day of January as such refunds can be processed. The full amount of such deposit shall be refunded to every licensee who has satisfactorily cleaned the Christmas tree lot for which a license has been issued as soon as such refund can be processed. All costs and expenses of cleaning in excess of the amount of said deposit shall be billed to the licensee who shall be obligated to pay same in full. The city manager shall submit vouchers in support of the costs of cleaning Christmas tree lots to the director of licensing and code enforcement separately stated for each lot. The director of licensing and code enforcement shall make such vouchers a part of the permanent record with respect to the license and deposit to which they apply.
(Prior code § 6-100.; Ord. 1284 § 1, 1983; Ord. 1903 § 1, 2007)