941.08 PRIVATE HAULER REGULATIONS FOR INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL COLLECTIONS.
(a) No person, business, firm or corporation shall engage in or carry on the business of collecting, hauling and/or disposing of solid waste in the City unless an annual license has first been secured from the Director of Public Service. The cost of a license for the collecting, hauling and/or disposing of refuse shall be seven hundred dollars ($700.00) per truck. Licenses shall be obtained during specified times only and are not transferable.
(b) Each refuse license issued pursuant to this section shall be applied for between January 1 and March 1 on an annual basis, due and payable no later than March 1st of each year. It shall be the duty of each company to pick up an application packet for each vehicle to be licensed at the Division of Sanitation Office after January 1 and submit the required documentation for approval in a timely manner. Failure to submit an application by May 1 may result in non-renewal of the license.
(c) Each vehicle shall be inspected at the City Garage by representatives from the City Garage and/or the Division of Sanitation prior to licensing, and each month thereafter, without charge, for the purpose of determining that the vehicle is mechanically in good working order and safe to traverse the streets of the City of Cuyahoga Falls and that the body is so constructed as to prevent leakage. The City will also accept a copy of the current annual United States Department of Transportation inspection form that has been completed in accordance with 49 CFR 396. In addition, each licensed vehicle must carry Single Limit Liability Insurance in the minimum amount of one million dollars ($1,000,000).
(d) It shall be the duty of each applicant of a refuse license to submit to the City each time a license is issued, and at other such times and in such other forms as the Director of Public Service may direct, a certified list of all residential, commercial and industrial, and hazardous waste customers serviced within the corporate limits of the City of Cuyahoga Falls.
(e) The City shall furnish an identification plate for each licensed vehicle indicating the name of the City and a numerical identification. This I.D. must be attached to the vehicle at all times in a prominent position, readily apparent from the street side of each vehicle operating in Cuyahoga Falls. Licensed vehicles and all equipment used within the corporate limits of the City of Cuyahoga Falls shall be identified with the name and telephone number of the licensed company.
(f) In the event a licensed vehicle is temporarily taken out of service for repairs, it shall be the duty of the license holder to immediately supply the Division of Sanitation Superintendent with the make, year, serial number and registration number of any substituted vehicle, as well as the approximate length of time such substitution is expected. If a licensed vehicle is permanently taken out of service and replaced with another vehicle, then a new license shall be obtained before operating said vehicle within the corporate limits of the City of Cuyahoga Falls, provided that there shall be no additional fee for licensing said replacement vehicle.
(g) No person, business, firm or corporation engaged in the business of hauling or disposing of solid waste shall collect, haul and dispose of business, commercial or industrial solid waste between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 7 :00 a.m., except during daylight savings time when operations may commence at 6:00 a.m., where such business, industrial or commercial establishment is located within one hundred fifty (150) yards of any residence, residential duplex, apartment or apartment complex.
(h) All persons, businesses, firms and corporations so licensed shall comply with all provisions of this ordinance. Any person, business, firm or corporation found to be in violation of City ordinances during a current licensing year shall automatically lose licensing privileges for the following licensing year.
(Ord. 118-2021. Passed 12-28-21.)