Glass recycler license: application, bond, insurance, fee, and revocation

(a) Any person wholly or partially engaged in the business of recycling glass containers may apply to the department for licensure as a licensed recycler. The application shall contain the following information from the applicant: (1) Name and home address; (2) Business address; (3) Address at which the applicant refills glass containers, processes glass containers for shipment out of State or crushes glass containers into cullet; (4) State of Hawaii general excise tax license number; (5) If the applicant is a firm, association, organization, partnership, joint venture, corporation, business, trust, company, or cooperative, the names and addresses of all owners and officers and their respective percentages of ownership; and (6) Facts demonstrating that the applicant is engaged in the business of recycling glass containers. (b) Every applicant for a license shall execute and submit a surety bond in favor of the city in the penal sum of $1,000. The bond shall be issued by a surety company authorized to do business in Hawaii in accordance with HRS § 78-20. (c) The applicant shall secure and present to the department at the time of application a standard automobile liability insurance policy covering the applicant, or any person driving any vehicle belonging to the applicant with the applicant’s permission in the amount of $100,000 for bodily injury to or death of one person in any accident and in the amount of $300,000 for bodily injury to or death of two or more persons in any one accident, respectively, and property damage insurance in the amount of $10,000 because of damage to or destruction of property of others in any one accident. The applicant shall secure and present to the department at the time of application a standard comprehensive nonvehicular public liability insurance policy covering the applicant and the applicant’s employees and agents, which shall also include a rider covering the city in the amount of $300,000. The rider shall be in the form of an endorsement insured by the insurer. (d) The fee for an annual glass recycling license shall be $100, payable in advance to the director of customer services. The fee for any license issued to an applicant after July 1 shall be prorated according to the remaining months of each fiscal year. No license fee shall be refundable. (e) The director of customer services shall issue a license to each applicant upon satisfaction of the truth of the information on the application and payment by the applicant of the license fee. Issuance of the license shall confer upon the licensed recycler the privilege of receiving the incentive under this article, and no other privilege, right, power, duty, or obligation. Issuance of the license shall not be deemed an approval, endorsement or sanction by the director of customer services or city of the licensed recycler or any activity conducted by the licensed recycler. Nor shall issuance of the license be deemed an expressed or implied imposition or acceptance of a regulatory obligation upon the director of customer services or city over the licensed recycler or any activity conducted by the licensed recycler, except as otherwise provided under this article. (f) The glass recycling license shall be issued for a term of one year commencing July 1 and ending on June 30 of the next succeeding year. (g) Revenues from the license fee and renewal fee shall be a realization of the solid waste special fund. (h) The director of customer services may suspend or revoke a license for cause, subject to the same procedure as applicable to the suspension or revocation of a refuse collection license under § 42-2.6 .