(A) Licensing of refuse and recyclable materials collectors.
(1) It is unlawful for a person to engage in the business of recyclable materials collection or refuse collection in the city unless the person first pays the license fee herein prescribed and secures a license from the city to do so in accordance with the provisions of this section.
(2) Any person desiring a license must make application on a form supplied by the City Clerk or designee. The City Clerk will require on the application such information as may be necessary for the purposes of this chapter.
(3) (a) No license is to be issued until the applicant files with the city a certificate of insurance as proof of coverages which are not less than the following:
1. Bodily injury: $1,000,000 each occurrence; $1,000,000 aggregate.
2. Property damage: $1,000,000 each occurrence; $1,000,000 aggregate.
3. Comprehensive automobile and truck liability:
a. Bodily injury: $1,000,000 each person; $1,000,000 each accident.
b. Property damage: $1,000,000 each accident; $1,000,000 non-owned (to include coverage for all owned, non-owned, leased and hired vehicles).
(b) The certificate of insurance or other form as the city may reasonably require must name the City of Brooklyn Park as an additional insured and state that the contractor's coverage must be the primary coverage in the event of a loss. Further, the certificate must provide for 30 days written notice to the city before cancellation, expiration, or change of coverage. The certificate of insurance cancellation clause must conform to the city's notification requirements.
(4) The license expires on the last day of June each year.
(5) All licensees must be given a copy of any and all regulations adopted pursuant to the provisions of §
98.03 of this chapter and must receipt for those copies. The licensee must agree to comply and abide by the terms of those regulations. Failure to comply may result in suspension or revocation of the license to collect garbage or refuse within the city.
(6) The city reserves the right to limit the number of licenses issued, and in the interest of healthful and sanitary conditions, reserves the right to license operations to designated geographic areas of the city.
(7) Any person desiring a refuse collection license must file with the City Clerk, prior to issuance of the license, a schedule of proposed rates to be charged during the license period. The schedule must include at least two levels of service based on the volume of refuse collected from the applicant's proposed customers. Each refuse collection licensee must notify the City Clerk in writing with any changes in the licensee's schedule of rates charged within 30 days of the effective date of any rate change.
(B) License fee. License fees must be in the amount set by the Council from time to time.
('72 Code, §§ 435:30 and 435:40) (Am. Ord. 1980-317(A), passed 3-24-80; Am. Ord. 1984-449(A), passed 4-23-84; Am. Ord. 1989- 633(A), passed 9-25-89)
Penalty, see § 98.99 Licensing and permit regulations; fees, revocation, and the like, see Ch. 110 
