(a) No person, firm, corporation, except the holder of a permit issued by the Mayor, shall commercially collect or transport garbage or other refuse within the Village. Said permit shall be issued only after the Mayor has duly satisfied himself that the permittee is capable of complying with the requirements of this chapter. Permits shall be issued only to persons, firms or corporations equipped with sanitary, leak-proof and easily cleaned vehicles. Leakage and spillage from vehicles transporting garbage and other refuse shall not be permitted.
(b) Such permit shall be in the form of a contract executed on behalf of the Village by the Mayor and Clerk, and approved by the Council. It shall also be executed at any time. The contract shall be for a term of five years with the option or renew for a similar period of five years, if mutually satisfactory to the Village and the Contractor. Such permit shall constitute an exclusive franchise between the Village and Contractor.
(Ord. 1997-10. Passed 7-28-97.)