§ 50.20. COLLECTOR’S LICENSE; FEES; POSTING OF BOND.

(A) No person, herein named "collector", shall engage in the business of hauling any garbage/refuse or leasing roll-offs for use within the City without having first procured a license from the City Clerk's office. No collector shall procure a license from the Clerk until they post a bond with the City Clerk-Assistant Finance Director. Each collector shall supply to the City a bond protecting the City in an amount equal to one-fourth of the total transfer station fee charges incurred by the collector during the preceding calendar year. Any collector who has been engaged in the business of hauling garbage/refuse for less than one full calendar year immediately preceding the filing of the application shall post a bond in an amount as set by resolution. All fees as may be provided by resolution of the City Council, which may be amended from time to time, for the use of the transfer station, shall be paid at the time of the use or they may be charged by the collector and paid to the City by the collector on a monthly basis. The condition upon which the bond is to be held is that the collector shall be allowed to charge fees due and owing to the City for the use of the transfer station. However, all charges shall be paid monthly to the City Clerk-Assistant Finance Director, and each payment shall be made no later than the first of the month immediately following the billing. Interest shall accrue on the unpaid balance at the annual rate of 18%. If the payment is not made to the City Clerk-Assistant Finance Director as described above by the first day of the month immediately following the billing, the collector shall pay in cash or certified check, for all fees which the collector incurs as a result of using the transfer station. If all of the payments are not paid as due to the City Clerk-Assistant Finance Director as set forth, the bond shall be deemed forfeited up to the amount of the total fee as charged but unpaid by the collector.

(B) After approval by the City Council of the application for the license and bond as posted by the applicant, the Clerk shall issue a license to haul garbage in the City to any person, after payment has been received in a sum as set by resolution by the Mayor and City Council, and which license shall expire on the last day of April next following the date of issuance thereof. A license issued under the provisions of this section shall further authorize the licensee to haul refuse as defined in this chapter, provided, however, that all refuse shall be no greater than eight feet in length. Any material dumped which is longer than eight feet and causes any damage or plugging up of the transfer station push pits shall be required to pay an additional fee, as set by resolution, for each such occurrence over and above the regularly established dumping ground fees.

(C) A license issued under the provisions of this section may be revoked or suspended by the City Council after a hearing to determine if any provisions of this chapter have been violated by the collector. If a license is suspended, the equipment of the license holder may not be used by any other party, person or entity for the purpose of picking up or hauling garbage or refuse for a period of one year from and after the date of revocation or suspension of the license.

(‘63 Code, § 8-2-3) (Ord. 91-02, passed 4-1-91; Am. Ord. 05-22, passed 3-21-05; Am. Ord. 08-23, passed 8-18-08) Penalty, see § 10.99