(A) Licensing authority designated. The Director shall be the licensing authority for refuse collectors, and the registering authority for vehicles and containers. The Director shall grant a license within a reasonable time following the filing of proper application and payment of the prescribed fee unless the Director finds one or more of the following conditions to prevail:
(1) The applicant has been irresponsible in the conduct of refuse collection and hauling operations within the town;
(2) The applicant lacks suitable equipment with which to collect refuse in a safe and nuisance-free manner and in compliance with this subchapter; and/or
(3) The applicant or the refuse collector to which it is the successor was previously licensed and its license was revoked in accordance with this subchapter.
(B) License required. Each refuse collector shall annually, on or before July 1, apply for a license from the Director on such form as the Director shall prescribe to engage in the business of refuse collection in the town.
(C) Registration of vehicles, containers. Each licensed refuse collector shall obtain a separate registration for each vehicle it operates within the town. When a vehicle is employed to transport more than one container, each container to be transported shall require a registration. Registrations shall not be transferable from vehicle to vehicle nor container to container; however, the Director may allow such temporary transfer of registrations in hardship situations, such as a temporary breakdown of an individually registered vehicle.
(D) License term; fee; renewal. All licenses shall be issued for a term not to exceed one year and shall be renewable on or before July 1 of each year. The license fee shall be established by the Board of Selectmen by regulation from time to time.
(E) Display of license. The license issued shall be conspicuously displayed on the left front of the body of each vehicle or container so licensed, or as may be directed.
(F) Identification of vehicles and containers. Each licensee shall prominently display at all times on each registered vehicle or container in letters at least four inches in height its name, license number and telephone number.
(G) Licenses nontransferable. Licenses are not transferable. When any licensee shall sell, transfer, all or part of its route to any refuse collector not licensed in the town, it shall, at least seven days before the date of sale or transfer, notify the Director, in writing, of its intent to sell and the transferee shall, at the same time, make application for a license to operate in the town.
(H) Routes serviced. As a prerequisite to the issuance or renewal of any license, the refuse collector must furnish to the Director the following:
(1) A complete list of all stops, container size and frequency of collection;
(2) Certificate of insurance; and
(3) The current fee as designated by the Board of Selectmen.
(Ord. effective 8-15-1995; Ord. passed 2-22-1996; Ord. effective 10-15-1997; Ord. passed 3-1-1998; Ord. passed 9-7-2022) Penalty, see § 51.99
Editor’s note:
TM Volume 21, page 44; TM Volume 21, page 197; TM Volume 21, page 425; TM Volume 21, page 485