[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Woodsburgh 11-23-1981 by L.L. No. 2-1981. Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings:
GARDENER
Includes any person who engages in the tending, maintaining, managing, creating or laying out of lawns, gardens, flower beds, shrubbery trees or landscaping of every nature and description on other than his own property.
PERSON
Includes any individual, firm, partnership or corporation.
PRIVATE PROPERTY
Includes all real property, improved or unimproved, owned by any municipal corporation, corporation, person, partnership, firm, association or otherwise which is not included in the definitions of "public highway" or "public place" in this section.
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 PLACE
Includes any real property available to or open to use by all or a majority of the property owners or residents of the Village of Woodsburgh.
It shall be unlawful for any person to perform as a gardener within the Village of Woodsburgh unless he/she shall have first obtained and shall have then in force a gardener's license as hereinafter provided and shall have been issued a currently valid carting license by the Town of Hempstead.
A. 
Every person who desires to perform as a gardener in the Village of Woodsburgh may apply to the Village Clerk for a license on forms to be furnished by the Village Clerk. Such license shall be granted by the Village Clerk upon payment of the fees as set forth in § 82-5 hereof.
B. 
Such license shall not be issued to an applicant if a prior license issued hereunder to such person or to a firm, partnership or corporation of which such person was a principal was revoked, except upon good cause shown by such person at a hearing before the Board of Trustees, when requested by such person.
A gardener's license shall be issued as of the date of granting of the same and shall expire on March 31 of the year next ensuing unless the same is sooner revoked, as herein provided.
[Amended 12-11-1989 by L.L. No. 25-1989]
The fees for a gardener's license shall be as set by resolution of the Board of Trustees from time to time.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: The fee schedule is on file in the office of the Village Clerk.
Any license issued hereunder may be suspended or revoked by the Board of Trustees if the holder thereof or any of his employees shall have violated any provisions of this chapter or any rule or regulation adopted hereunder or any other statute, local law, rule or regulation after a hearing before said Board of Trustees on 10 days' written notice to the licensee by certified mail.
[Amended 5-18-2015 by L.L. No. 1-2015; 4-28-2025 by L.L. No. 1-2025]
The following regulations shall be observed by all licensees and their employees:
A. 
No licensee or employee of a licensee shall do, perform, cause, suffer or permit any of the following acts:
(1) 
Operate any power or manual lawn mower or other power equipment:
(a) 
Earlier than 8:00 a.m. or later than 5:00 p.m. on weekdays; and
(b) 
Any time on Saturday, Sunday or federal holidays.
(2) 
Place any garbage, refuse, cuttings, leaves, wood or other materials upon any public highway, public place or private property.
(3) 
Scatter any garbage, refuse, cuttings, leaves or other waste materials from the custody of such persons to any public highway, public place or private property.
B. 
The gardener's license shall be maintained by the licensee or his designee on the job site and shall be displayed upon request.
[Added 4-28-2025 by L.L. No. 1-2025]
Any person or entity, who performs or causes to be performed gardening work, with or without a gardener's license as required herein, who is not an owner of the premises on which such work is being performed, shall be guilty of an offense for performing any gardening or landscaping work during the hours prohibited under § 82-7A(1).
[Amended 11-23-1987 by L.L. No. 5-1987; 12-11-1989 by L.L. No. 25-1989]
Offenses against this chapter shall be punishable as set forth in Chapter 1, General Provisions, Article II.
At any time during the month of March of each current year, the holder of a then-valid current and unsuspended license may apply for the renewal and reissue of such license. No renewal or reissue of license will be made if, at the time of application therefor, said license is under a suspension, except upon good cause shown by such licensee after a hearing before the Board of Trustees.