(a) Application. No license to engage in such business shall be issued until the applicant secures from the director of the department of environmental services and presents to the director of customer services an approved application. Such application shall include but not be limited to the following information:
(1) Name and home address of the applicant;
(2) Business address and the address where all trucks, other vehicles, and operating equipment will be kept (if other than the business address), and the zoning code classification of each address;
(3) State of Hawaii general excise tax license number of the applicant;
(4) If applicant is a firm, association, organization, partnership, joint venture, corporation, limited liability corporation, business trust, company, or cooperative, the names and addresses of all owners and officers and their respective percentage of ownership;
(5) For each truck, vehicle, and equipment that the applicant owns or has under the applicant’s control or intends to use for collection or transportation of refuse, the applicant shall provide:
(A) Registration number;
(B) Valid registration number assigned by the State department of transportation; and
(C) Copy of a valid safety inspection certificate issued by the State department of transportation;
(6) Facts demonstrating that the applicant owns or has access to suitable facilities for keeping equipment clean and in good repair and that the applicant owns or has access to reasonable office facilities; and
(7) Facts demonstrating that the applicant owns or has the legally enforceable right to use at least two trucks or has made documented arrangements for continued service to customers in case of truck breakdown.
(b) Bond. Every applicant for a license shall execute and submit a surety bond in favor of the city in the penal sum of $1,000, which bond shall be subject to all of the conditions set forth in § 42-2.3, including the cost of collecting and disposing of refuse by the city if the licensee fails to collect and dispose of refuse which the licensee has contracted so to do with others. The bond shall be issued by a surety company authorized to do business in Hawaii in accordance with HRS § 78-20.
(c) Vehicular public liability and damage insurance. The licensee shall secure and present to the director at the time of application a standard automobile liability insurance policy covering the licensee, or any person driving any vehicle belonging to the licensee with the licensee’s permission in the amount of $100,000 for bodily injury to or death of one person in any accident and in the amount of $300,000 for bodily injury to or death of two or more persons in any one accident respectively, and property damage insurance in the amount of $50,000 because of damage to or destruction of property of others in any one accident.
(d) Comprehensive nonvehicular public liability insurance policy. The licensee shall secure and present to the director at the time of application a standard comprehensive nonvehicular public liability insurance policy covering the licensee and the licensee’s employees and agents, which shall also include a rider covering the city in the sum of $300,000. Such rider shall be in the form of an endorsement issued by the insurer.
(e) Term of license. Such refuse collection license shall be issued for a term of one year commencing July 1 through June 30 of the next succeeding year. Such license may be renewed annually on or before July 1 upon application by a licensee, if the director determines that the licensee remains in compliance with this chapter.
(f) License fee. The fee for an annual license to collect refuse shall be $500, payable in advance to the director of customer services on or before July 1 of each year. The fee for any annual license issued to an applicant after July 1 shall be prorated according to the remaining months of each fiscal year. No license fee shall be refundable.
(g) Determination of eligibility for license.
(1) Upon receipt of a completed application for a license to collect or transport refuse, the director shall determine if the applicant meets all the requirements of this chapter applicable to collectors and transporters of refuse.
(2) After such determination the director shall either approve the application by proper endorsement or deny the application specifying in writing the cause or causes for such disapproval.
(Sec. 9-2.2, R.O. 1978 (1983 Ed.)) (1990 Code, Ch. 9, Art. 2, § 9-2.2) (Am. Ords. 96-58, 99-32, 10-16)