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(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(3) The applicant or the refuse collector to which it is the successor was previously licensed and its license was revoked in accordance with this subchapter.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
(A) General. Failure to comply with the provisions of this subchapter or any regulation or directive issued by the Board of Selectmen or the Director pursuant to this subchapter or any such regulation shall be a grounds for refusal, revocation or suspension of a license in addition to any other penalty imposed by this subchapter or any other law.
(B) Notice required. Refusal, revocation or suspension shall only become effective five calendar days after receipt of written notice from the Director.
(C) Request for review; filing; effect of failure to file. If a refuse collector objects to the Director’s action described in division (B) above to refuse, revoke or suspend its license, it may within five calendar days of receipt of said notice, file a written request for review with the First Selectman. Failure to timely file such request for review shall make the Director’s action final and binding upon the collector.
(D) Request for review; effect of timely filing. Timely filing of such request for review shall operate as an automatic stay of the Director’s action.
(E) Special Appeals Board; hearing. The First Selectman shall appoint forthwith a Special Appeals Board consisting of two electors of the town and two licensed refuse collectors and a member of the Board of Selectmen, and said Board shall then within 15 days hear and decide the matter. Such hearing shall be private except, however, that such hearing may be public if so requested, in writing, by the refuse collector. The decision of said Board shall be final and binding upon the collector.
(F) Names, addresses of customers to be furnished upon revocation or suspension. Whenever a collector’s license is refused, revoked or suspended, it shall furnish the Director within 24 hours the names and addresses of its customers.
(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
Occupants of premises in the town must apply to the Director for a permit, to be able to dispose of refuse accumulated on such premises. A permit may be obtained from the Director by applying on such form as the Director shall prescribe. The permit shall be displayed in such manner as the Director shall prescribe. Such permit may be revoked or suspended for the reasons and in the manner prescribed for commercial licenses, and appeals therefrom may be taken in the same manner.
(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)
Editor’s note:
TM Volume 21, page 44; TM Volume 21, page 197; TM Volume 21, page 425; TM Volume 21, page 485
(A) Director responsible. The Director shall administer the licensing of any refuse collector engaged in the collecting and transporting of refuse in the town.
(B) Insurance. The Director shall, when considering an application for a refuse collector license, including renewal, ascertain that the applicant has adequate liability insurance.
(C) Additional rules. The Board of Selectmen may promulgate regulations and the Director may promulgate additional rules on all collection and disposal procedures from time to time as are deemed proper, but such rules shall not be inconsistent with this subchapter.
(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)
Editor’s note:
TM Volume 21, page 44; TM Volume 21, page 197; TM Volume 21, page 425; TM Volume 21, page 485
(A) Charges. Each refuse collector shall pay all charges imposed by § 51.09, all charges for disposal rights awarded to the refuse collector or assigned to the refuse collector pursuant to this subchapter or regulations adopted pursuant thereto, and the license fee imposed by § 51.11, and shall comply with all other requirements of this subchapter and such regulations.
(B) Recyclable materials. Each refuse collector shall collect recyclable materials from each of its customers in the manner specified in this subchapter. Any refuse collector who has reason to believe that a person from whom it collects solid waste has discarded recyclable material with such solid waste in violation of this subchapter shall promptly notify the Director of the alleged violation. Upon the request of the Director, a collector shall provide a warning notice, by tag or other means, to any person suspected by the collector or the Director of violating separation requirements. A collector shall also assist the town to identify any person responsible for creating loads containing significant quantities of recyclable materials mixed with solid waste.
(C) Construction and maintenance of vehicles and containers. All vehicles registered to collect and transport refuse shall be maintained free of obnoxious odors and accumulated refuse. Any such vehicle shall be of a closed construction. A container utilized primarily for non-liquid refuse need not be of watertight construction, but shall be completely enclosed.
(D) Delinquent customers. A refuse collector may refuse to provide collection service to any customer who is more than 30 days delinquent in the payment of the refuse collector’s fee. If the delinquent customer shall discharge its delinquency, the refuse collector shall immediately restore collection services to the customer.
(E) Responsibility to provide service; refusal to provide. Refuse collectors are hereby made jointly responsible for providing collection service to any resident of the town. If any commercial, industrial or condominium customer of the town shall be refused collection services without reasonable grounds or is dissatisfied with collection service, the customer may make application to the Director, who shall have the right to direct said collector to provide service or who shall have the right to designate another licensed refuse collector to provide refuse collection service and the collector so selected shall comply with the Director’s designation. In making such designation, the Director shall give primary consideration to those collectors who service customers in the same or a contiguous locality.
(F) Designation of collector to provide service. In the event refuse collection service is not provided, the Director shall designate a licensed refuse collector or collectors to provide refuse collection service in the geographical area affected, and such collector or collectors shall comply with the Director’s designation.
(G) Customers’ containers. Refuse collectors shall leave their customers’ containers in a neat, upright position and off the road.
(H) Spilled refuse. Refuse collectors shall clean up refuse that may have spilled when carrying or transferring refuse.
(I) List of rates. Each refuse collector shall furnish to its customers, upon request, a list of rates for the various services provided.
(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)
Editor’s note:
TM Volume 21, page 44; TM Volume 21, page 197; TM Volume 21, page 425; TM Volume 21, page 485
(B) The following materials are designated as recyclable materials, which shall be separated from solid waste and shall be set out for collection or delivered to a collection point as provided by the these regulations:
(1) Cardboard;
(2) Glass food and beverage containers;
(3) Leaves and other yard waste;
(4) Metal food and beverage containers;
(5) Newspaper and magazines;
(6) Office paper;
(7) Scrap metal;
(8) Storage batteries; and
(9) Waste oil.
(C) The above terms shall have the meanings given them in the Connecticut Regulations of State Agencies, § 22a-241b-1.
(Ord. passed 9-7-2022)
Editor's note:
TM Volume 17, page 396
The Board of Selectmen is the governing body that sets the fee schedule at the town's Transfer Station on Roxbury Road. The Board of Selectman can update that schedule at any time upon notice and a hearing. The schedule of fees as of the effective date of the current version of this subchapter is posted at the Roxbury Road Transfer Station and on the Public Works section of the town website.
(Ord. passed 9-7-2022)
Editor's note:
TM Volume 16, page 265; TM Volume 20, page 237 (#3); TM Volume 20, page 239 (#7);
TM Volume 20, page 240 (#8); TM Volume 21, page 101 (#9); TM Volume 21, page 157;
TM Volume 22, page 79; TM Volume 22, page 248; TM Volume 22, page 261
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