West Windsor officials have announced that, effective immediately, all landscape contractors that are doing business in the township must register with the township’s engineering department.
The issue regarding leaf and brush collection has been ongoing for more than three years, and the registration requirement was proposed during council meetings in the past as a solution to enforce stormwater regulations. An ordinance enforcing the registration requirement was adopted in December to ensure the contractors themselves know the rules and regulations for brush and leaf collection in town.
Landscape contractors will be charged $10 yearly to register prior to May 1 of each year, following 2009, said a press release from the township. Accordingly, each landscape contractor will also be provided with provisions of the West Windsor Township Yard Waste – Leaf and Brush ordinances, and will have to certify that they will comply with these ordinances. Registration will also include a map of collection zones in the township and a schedule of yard waste collection by the township in each zone.
They will only be permitted to put out residential yard waste from the West Windsor homes at which they are working, for collection, and in accordance with township ordinance, that is only allowed seven days prior to a scheduled collection established for the zone, the press release stated. They will also be given a vehicle identification for each vehicle they use so that police and public works members will know that the business is properly registered.
Those who do not register will be subject to fines and other penalties.
