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Home My WebLink AboutOrdinance - 198 - Regulating and Licensing Scavengers, Requiring Permits and Imposing a Penalty - 12/12/1972 VILLAGE OF EDEN PRAIRIE HENNEPIN COUNTY MINNESOTA ORDINANCE NO. 198 AN ORDINANCE REGULATING AND LICENSING SCAVENGERS, REQUIRING PERMITS AND IMPOSING A PENALTY . THE COUNCIL OF THE VILLAGE OF EDEN PRAIRIE ORDAINS AS FOLLOWS: Sectior. 1. Definition. The term Scavenger, as used in this ordinance means a person, firm or corporation in the business of removing the contents, or part of the contents, of any privy, privy box, vault, sink , cesspool , or septic tank within the Village of Eden Prairie. Section 2. Application for and Issuance of License; Bond. Any person desiring to act or render services as a scavenger within the Village shall make application for a license to the Village Council , accompanied by a license fee and a bond. Such application shall be verified by the oath of the applicant and shall state: (a) The name and address of the applicant. (b) If the applicant is not an individual , the names and addresses of all officers or other persons in control of the firm or t corporation making application . (c) A description of the equipment which the applicant proposes to use for scavenging within the Village. (d) License fee shall be as stated in separate license and fee schedule ordinance. Each application shall be accompanied by a bond using Village bond forms in the sum of $2,000.00 in favor of the Village and the public conditioned upon compliance by the applicant with all laws of the State and ordinances of the Village pertaining to the conduct of the business of a scavenger and faithful performance of the contract. Upon approval of the application by the Village Council , the Clerk shall issue a license to the applicant which shall expire on the 1st day of January next following. Section 3. Liability Insurance for Scavengers. The applicant shall also furnish proof that policy of public liability insurance has been procured by him during the license period, for death or personal injury arising therefrom to any person or persons, in the amount of $100,000.00 for each person and $300,000.00 for each incident, and for damage to property arising from any incident in the amount of not less than $50,000.00. Section 4. Ap2roved Sites. No discharge of waste from septic tanks or of er similar facilities, whether by a person or a local government unit, shall be made unless such discharge is made at a site previously approved by the Chief Administrator of the Metro Sewer Board. t a f Ordinance No. 198 Page 2 Section 5. Permit Required. Before rendering services as a scavenger to any premises in the Village, the scavenger shall obtain a permit in writing from the Village Clerk, which shall contain the name of the owner or occupant and the address of the premises. The fee for each such permit shall be as stated in separate license and fee schedule ordinance. In case of an emergency, the scavenger may render services at any premises without a permit, provided verbal notification is given in advance to the Village Clerk, if the emergency occurs within regular business hours, and provided a permit is obtained on the next business day. Section 6. Location of Equipment. No scavenger shall place, store, keep or maintain any wagons, vehicles, receptacles , vessels or utensils used in connection with his business in any place in the Village without first securing the written consent of all owners of property located within a radius of 200 feet of such place and in addition, he shall comply with all applicable zoning and other ordinances, statutes and regulations. Section 7. Scavenging Equipment. All substances removed from any privy, privy box, cesspool , septic tank or other vault used as part of a sanitary sewer system shall be conveyed to the place of disposal in tanks or other receptacles constructed of a metal or other non-porous material provided with at least two manholes on the top thereof and an outlet at the bottom, adequately capped to prevent any leakage. Section 8. Overnight Storage. No receptacle, tank or vehicle containing any substance such as described in the preceding section may be stored overnight in any place in the Village. Section 9. Spilling. No substance such as described in Section 6 shall be allowed to spill , splash, leak or become deposited on any public street or alley, or on the surface of the ground. Section 10. Owner Responsibility. No person shall employ any other than a scavenger licensed hereunder for the purpose of cleaning any privy vault, cesspool or septic tank situated on property within the Village owned, rented, operated or managed by such person. s Section 11. Penalty. Any person violating this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a sentence of imprisonment of not more than 90 days or to payment of a fine of not more than $300.00. Such penalty may be imposed in addition to revocation or suspension of license. First read December 12, 1972. Adopted by the Council of the Village of Eden Prairie this 26th day of December, 1972. } ATTEST: Paul R. Redpath, Mayo Edna M. Holmgren, Cle a b 4 X• ` _ AHIi y SUN NEWSPAPHER"S AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION ; set ar O Minnetonka - Eden Prairie Sun ao csW 661 W. 78th St. Bloomington, Minnesota taava a.e 0 ttrpt+�M)rt pry,; ,; �• � me State of Minnesota u , } SS' County of Hennepin paaq by(a .forms fo UK anls"of ad;tlr Villa{.e #1tu of 1W J. R. RITCHAY, being duly sworn, on oath says he is and during all times here stated � Mat t has been the vice president and printer of the newspaper known as The Minnetonka-Eden PrairieWW " u' Sun and has full knowledge of the facts herein stated as follows: (1) Said newspaper is printed to ppileapG' the English language in newspaper format and in column and sheet form equivalent in printed rrt+Neh l efplrePoa lM St V afjanu-` space to at least 900 square inches. (2) Said newspaper is a weekly and is distributed at least ? w` once each week. (3) Said newspaper has 50%, of its news columns devoted to news of local.' Jae farnisp. interest to the community which it purports to serve and does not wholly duplicate any other praoE Pe1 1 i#q'Islam publication and Is not made up entirely of patents, plate matter and advertisements. (4) Said - Rd=dud 1W newspaper is circulated In and near the municipality which it purports to serve, has at least hQW,iMsr orpeh 300 copies regularly delivered to paying subscribers, has an average of at least 75% of its total -h� ! B�vfy{��w�*ac circulation currently paid or no more than three months in arrears and has entry as second- w Gardgaogertspaoprfl�Amok iod t class matter in Its local post-office. (5) Said newspaper purports to serve the City of Minne- tonka and Village of Eden Pralrie In Hennepin County and it has its known office of issue in the City of Bloomington in Henhe to County, established and open during its regular g D g o[ ! f slptld' . on borer�� business hours for the gathering of news, sale of advertisements and sale of subscriptions and at ma- maintained by the managing officer or persons in its employ and subject to his direction and at lb now*,pp�aa control during all such regular business hours and devoted exclusively during such regular v " t7da[:Aa1tuF business hours to the business of the newspaper and business related thereto. (6) Said newspaper files a copy of each issue immediately with the State Historical Society. (7) Said newspaper has aiEilMUNaa�lpPaN., complied with all foregoing conditions for at least two years preceding the day or dates of !RMsC isorq f< publication mentioned below. (8) Said newspaper has flied with the Secretary of State of tpy Minnesota prior to January 1. 1966 and each January i thereafter an affidavit in the form *II gtaalpas tAlc prescribed by the Seecretary of State and signed by the publisher of said newspaper and sworn ; to before a notary public stating that the newspaper is a legal newspaper. axdGts,�°, tysarof� tlMsakv stay, Ordinance No. 196 _ Wd piaaeapimtub lie further states on oath that the printed obtaiaadpatrstitst tesrdgr hereto attached as a part hereof was cut from the columns of said newspaper, and was printed edwa{:LaestW"'iOlj ojal;mstt,�tN4 � IC�Ye air#t�°III 'iltM)p�At`a e+F�lirt .°'°f� ' elm,, ,p/Rd bb ovoaK+. Ifoalr aI11t�q�,OlseiF"betAs VMS and published therein in the English language, once each week, for O_ successive weeks: that it was first so published on T h rs the 1 ' day of Jan(.;a?^y 19 ?3 and was thereafter printed and published on every to and including Aay' It#J r -the-day of 19 and that the following is a printed copy of the lower case alphabet from A to Z. both inclusive, and is hereby acknowledged as being the size and kind of type used in the composition and publication of said notice, to-wit: !s(ItM abcdefghl jklmnopgrstuvwxyz abcdef ghi)klmeopgrstuvwx.w t�f t Subaorllaad and sworn to before me tkflt_ r3ay u+ �T aA U?I•V ae 7-4 (Notarial Seal) Muriel Ir. Quist, Notary Public, Hennepin County, Minn. My Commission Expires July 28th,UN /99,P e a -[JIB•�r: �*� � i a C k W •� b c O C m O r 3 "D c r a i r s s 40 r D � LOD JAN 2 21973 VILLAGE OF y EDEN PRAIRIE