(a) Manufactured fertilizer shall not be applied prior to March 15 or after November 15 in any year due to the inability of frozen soil to absorb nutrients.
(b) Manufactured fertilizer shall not be applied when conditions exist which can reasonably be anticipated to promote or create runoff, as for example, when heavy rain is forecast.
(c) Manufactured fertilizers shall not be applied or deposited on driveways, parking lots, streets, sidewalks, or other impervious surfaces. Any fertilizer applied or spilled, whether intentionally or accidentally, on an impervious surface shall be completely removed within one hour by its legal application to general turf or other lawful area or it being appropriately containerized.
(d) Manufactured fertilizer shall not be applied within twenty-five feet of any wetland, lake, river, stream, drain, watercourse, or storm water retention or detention basin.
(e) Manufactured fertilizers shall not be applied more than once every six weeks or more than five times during any one calendar year to a general turf area.
(Ord. 13-07. Passed 9-4-07.)