(a) Registration. No person, firm, or corporation shall accept for disposal more than five (5) automobile, truck, motorcycle, or bicycle tires in any one (1) calendar month in any one (1) year unless and until the person, firm, or corporation has registered with the Commissioner of Assessments and Licenses as a source of waste tires. The Commissioner of Assessments and Licenses shall furnish a registration form for the purposes of the registration, and, upon the payment of a fee of one hundred dollars ($100.00), shall issue a certificate of registration, which may apply to all locations at which the registrant does business. Registrations shall be renewed annually. The form for registration shall contain the name and address of the registrant, and if a partnership, the names and addresses of all partners, and if a corporation, the name of the corporation and the names and addresses of the officers and the statutory agent and shall contain additional information as deemed necessary by the Commissioner of Assessments and Licenses. Copies of all certificates of registration issued by the Commissioner of Assessments and Licenses shall be provided to the Commissioner of Environment. The Commissioner of Assessments and Licenses shall also provide a copy of any certificate of registration to the Council member in whose ward the registrant's premises is located on a quarterly basis.
(b) Reporting. Except as provided in this section, all persons, firms, or corporations registered under division (a) of this section shall report tire disposal activity to the Commissioner of Environment by submitting a monthly tire disposal report to the Commissioner of Environment on a form promulgated by the Commissioner for that purpose. The monthly tire disposal report form shall contain the date and time that tires were hauled off the registrant's premises during the previous month. The form shall also require disclosure of the identity of each waste hauler transporting tires off the registrant's premises, and the license tag number of each truck used to transport tires off the registrant's premises. The monthly tire disposal report form shall cover a calendar month and be submitted to the Commissioner of Environment no later than ten (10) days after the last date of the calendar month in question. The Commissioner of the Environment shall provide a copy of every tire disposal report submitted by the registrant to the Council member in whose ward the registrant's premises is located on a quarterly basis.
(c) If a person, firm or corporation operating a repair garage as defined in Section 325.30 disposes of its tires exclusively by contract with a tire disposal entity registered under division (a) above, and a copy of the contract is filed with the Commissioner of Assessments and Licenses with the registration required under division (a) above, then the person, firm, or corporation is not required to report as required in division (b) above.
(d) No person, firm, or corporation who disposes of tires shall fail to register as a source of waste tires as provided in division (a) of this section, or fail to submit monthly tire disposal report forms to the Commissioner of Environment as provided in division (b) of this section, or fail to provide complete information required by the forms.
(e) No person, firm, or corporation shall engage another for the purpose of hauling waste tires unless the waste hauler is licensed under Section 551.19 et seq. of this chapter.
(f) Whoever violates any provision of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(Ord. No. 1076-13. Passed 9-23-13, eff. 9-27-13)