[Amended 2-15-2007 by Ord. No. 03-07]
Any person, except as otherwise provided herein, performing yard-maintenance services within the Borough of Maywood shall first obtain a license therefor from the Building Department of the Borough of Maywood.
The provisions of this chapter shall apply to all persons performing yard-maintenance services within the Borough of Maywood excepting full-time students, 18 years of age or younger, who perform yard-maintenance services on a part-time basis or the owners or occupants of real property within the Borough of Maywood performing yard-maintenance services on property owned or occupied by them or at no charge to the owners or occupants thereof. For the purposes of this chapter, “yard-maintenance services” shall be defined as lawn mowing, leaf removal and cleanup of garden debris.
Each applicant for a license shall submit an application containing the following information:
A. 
Name, address and telephone number of individual or business providing landscaping services;
B. 
Make, model, year, color, registration number and license plate number of all motor vehicles used in connection with providing landscaping services;
C. 
Proof of insurance, including statutory workers compensation insurance, motor vehicle insurance for each motor vehicle used in providing landscaping services, liability insurance for both personal injury and property damage in an amount not less than $1,000,000 for personal injuries and $500,000 for property damage;
D. 
If pesticides are used in connection with yard-maintenance services, proof that the applicant is licensed by the State of New Jersey to administer pesticides.
[Amended 2-28-2023 by Ord. No. 1-23]
A. 
Each vehicle operating in the Borough shall display a valid Borough of Maywood landscaping sticker. Such sticker shall be affixed and displayed on the vehicle licensed.
B. 
The applicant shall submit annually a license fee to the Borough of Maywood in the sum of $50 for the licensing of a business and the use of one vehicle. The applicant shall submit annually a license fee to the Borough of Maywood the sum of $5 for each additional vehicle.
C. 
All licenses shall expire at 11:59 p.m. on December 31 in the year in which the license was issued. A new license application, together with the fee therefor, shall be filed each year.
[Added 2-28-2023 by Ord. No. 1-23]
Any person or corporation pleading guilty or found guilty of performing professional yard maintenance services pursuant to this chapter without the appropriate required license or license properly displayed/affixed to their vehicle shall be subject to the following corresponding fines:
A. 
First offense: $100.
B. 
Second offense: $300.
C. 
Third and subsequent offenses: $500 and a one-year ban from applying for/receiving a license with the Borough.