(a) No person, firm or corporation shall engage in the business of collection and disposition of waste, combustible waste, noncombustible waste, garbage, ashes, commercial waste and all other refuse or discarded material within the City unless a permit to do so has first been obtained by such person from the Director of Public Service for such purposes.
Upon payment of a fee as set out in Chapter 185 of the Administrative Code (the General Fee Schedule) for each vehicle operated in connection with such business within the City per year or any part thereof, and the furnishing of evidence of compliance with State law relating to workmen's compensation, and the submission of a policy or policies of public liability and property damage insurance, to the approval of the Solicitor, protecting the City as a named additional insured to the extent of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for an individual accident, three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) for a collective accident and twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) property damage arising out of the contractual use of the City incinerator and/or dumping sites, the Director of Public Service shall issue to the applicant a windshield sticker indicating the issuance of the permit herein required.
(b) Each operator of a vehicle used in connection with such business shall secure from the office of the Director of Public Safety a registration certificate, as provided for in Chapter 757.
(c) If no contractual and permitted use of the City incinerator and/or dumping sites is made, the insurance required shall be one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for an individual accident, three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) for a collective accident and twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) property damage, except that the City shall not be named in such policy of insurance. However, all other provisions shall be complied with before the permit is issued.
(d) The aforementioned windshield sticker shall be of such size and composition as meets the approval of the Director of Public Service and the Purchasing Agent and shall be inscribed "Private Waste Hauler Permit, Parma, Ohio, NO. ______________" indicating in the blank space the number of the permit and the year in force, and such other information as the City desires. Such windshield sticker shall be securely placed on the inside of the windshield of the truck to which the permit is issued in such a way as to be in plain view.
(e) Nothing contained in this section shall be deemed to apply to the hauling of waste from premises within the City by the owner or tenant of such premises except when such owner or tenant performs such services for hire.
(f) This section shall be effective for collection or renewal of licenses July 1 of each year, commencing July 1, 1961.
(Ord. 83-61. Passed 6-19-61.)