[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees
of the Village of Woodsburgh 11-23-1981 by L.L. No. 2-1981. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following words
and phrases shall have the following meanings:
Includes any person who engages in the tending, maintaining,
managing, creating or laying out of lawns, gardens, flower beds, shrubbery
trees or landscaping of every nature and description on other than
his own property.
Includes any individual, firm, partnership or corporation.
Includes all real property, improved or unimproved, owned
by any municipal corporation, corporation, person, partnership, firm,
association or otherwise which is not included in the definitions
of "public highway" or "public place" in this section.
Includes any street open to the public for its full width
from property line to property line, including the sidewalk area,
whether or not installed.
Includes any real property available to or open to use by
all or a majority of the property owners or residents of the Village
of Woodsburgh.
It shall be unlawful for any person to perform
as a gardener within the Village of Woodsburgh unless he/she shall
have first obtained and shall have then in force a gardener's license
as hereinafter provided and shall have been issued a currently valid
carting license by the Town of Hempstead.
A.Â
Every person who desires to perform as a gardener in the Village of Woodsburgh may apply to the Village Clerk for a license on forms to be furnished by the Village Clerk. Such license shall be granted by the Village Clerk upon payment of the fees as set forth in § 82-5 hereof.
B.Â
Such license shall not be issued to an applicant if
a prior license issued hereunder to such person or to a firm, partnership
or corporation of which such person was a principal was revoked, except
upon good cause shown by such person at a hearing before the Board
of Trustees, when requested by such person.
A gardener's license shall be issued as of the
date of granting of the same and shall expire on March 31 of the year
next ensuing unless the same is sooner revoked, as herein provided.
[Amended 12-11-1989 by L.L. No. 25-1989]
The fees for a gardener's license shall be as
set by resolution of the Board of Trustees from time to time.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: The fee schedule is on file
in the office of the Village Clerk.
Any license issued hereunder may be suspended
or revoked by the Board of Trustees if the holder thereof or any of
his employees shall have violated any provisions of this chapter or
any rule or regulation adopted hereunder or any other statute, local
law, rule or regulation after a hearing before said Board of Trustees
on 10 days' written notice to the licensee by certified mail.
The following regulations shall be observed
by all licensees and their employees:
A.Â
No licensee or employee of a licensee shall do, perform,
cause, suffer or permit any of the following acts:
(1)Â
(2)Â
Place any garbage, refuse, cuttings, leaves, wood
or other materials upon any public highway, public place or private
property.
(3)Â
Scatter any garbage, refuse, cuttings, leaves or other
waste materials from the custody of such persons to any public highway,
public place or private property.
B.Â
The gardener's license shall be maintained by the
licensee or his designee on the job site and shall be displayed upon
request.
[Amended 11-23-1987 by L.L. No. 5-1987; 12-11-1989 by L.L. No. 25-1989]
At any time during the month of March of each
current year, the holder of a then-valid current and unsuspended license
may apply for the renewal and reissue of such license. No renewal
or reissue of license will be made if, at the time of application
therefor, said license is under a suspension, except upon good cause
shown by such licensee after a hearing before the Board of Trustees.
