(A) Definitions. For the purpose of this section, the following definitions apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
GARBAGE. All putrescible wastes, including animal offal and carcasses of dead animals, but excluding human excrete, sewage and other water-carried wastes.
OTHER REFUSE. Ashes, glass, crockery, cans, paper, boxes, rags and similar non-putrescible wastes, but excluding sand, earth, brick, stone, concrete, trees, tree branches and wood.
(B) License required. It is unlawful for any person to haul garbage or other refuse for hire without a license therefor from the city, or to haul garbage or other refuse from his or her own residence or business property other than as herein excepted.
(C) Exception. Nothing in this section shall prevent persons from hauling garbage or other refuse from their own residences or business properties provided the following rules are observed:
(1) All garbage is hauled in containers that are water-tight on all sides and the bottom and with tight-fitting covers on top;
(2) All other refuse is hauled in vehicles with leak-proof bodies and completely covered or enclosed by canvas or other means or material so as to completely eliminate the possibility of loss of cargo; and
(3) All garbage and other refuse shall be dumped or unloaded only at the designated sanitary landfill.
(D) Hauler licensee requirements.
(1) Hauler licenses shall be granted only upon the condition that the licensee have water-tight, packer-type vehicles in good condition to prevent loss in transit of liquid or solid cargo, that the vehicle be kept clean and as free from offensive odors as possible and not allowed to stand in any street longer than reasonably necessary to collect garbage or refuse, and that the same be dumped or unloaded only at the designated sanitary landfill, and strictly in accordance with regulations relating thereto.
(2) Before a garbage and refuse hauler’s license shall be issued, the applicant shall file with the City Clerk evidence that he or she has provided public liability insurance on all vehicles in at least the sum of $100,000 for the injury of one person, $300,000 for the injury of two or more persons in the same accident and $10,000 for property damages.
(3) Licensees shall deliver all refuse to the sanitary landfill and shall be required to pay non-resident rates for any refuse collected outside the city. Collection outside the city and failure to pay non-resident rates therefor shall be grounds for revocation of the license.
(4) The Council, in the interest of maintaining healthful and sanitary conditions in the city, hereby reserves the right to specify and assign certain areas to all licensees and to limit the number of licenses issued.
(5) Each applicant shall file with the City Clerk, before a garbage and refuse hauler’s license is issued or renewed, a schedule of proposed rates to be charged by him or her during the licensed period for which the application is made. The schedule of proposed rates, or a compromise schedule thereof, shall be approved by the Council before granting the license. Nothing herein shall prevent a licensee from petitioning the Council for review of the rates during the licensed period and the Council may likewise consider the petition and make new rates effective at any time. No licensee shall charge rates in excess of the rates approved by the Council.