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Lyons Municipal Code 6-6 requires licensing of all hauling companies operating within the Town of Lyons that collect, transport or dispose of discarded materials (garbage, recyclables, or compostables).
To obtain your annual Hauler License please complete the following steps:

1. Complete the Hauler Application Form
2. Complete and sign the Self‐Certification Form
3. Complete a Town of Lyons Business License Application
4. License Fees:


• Hauler License Fee: Calculate your license fee based on an annual fee of $50.00 for up to the first three vehicles (if you operate one, two, or three vehicles, the cost is $50.00). Each additional vehicle is $10.00 (i.e., if you operate four vehicles, the cost is $60.00).
• Business License Fee: $50.00 Send the two forms referred to above and both license fee payments to the address below.

Town of Lyons
Attn: Hauler License
P.O. Box 49
Lyons, CO 80540
Upon receipt of your Application, Self‐Certification Form and payment, your Hauler License will be issued. With issuance of your license, you will receive the appropriate number of paper licenses for your vehicles.

If you have questions, contact the Licensing Department at licensing@townoflyons.com or (303) 823-6622.

Please list all vehicles that will be operating in the Town of Lyons. If there are not enough spaces for all of your vehicles, please email additional vehicle information to licensing@townoflyons.com

The applicant must sign for self-certification:

Each vehicle operated in the performance of waste hauling services, as licensed under the Town of Lyons Commercial Waste Hauler Licensing Ordinance #977, is insured through a policy issued by an insurance carrier or insurer, authorized to do business in the State of Colorado, in the sum of not less than $150,000.00 for damages for or on account of any bodily injury to or the death of each person as the result of any one accident, in the sum of not less than $150,000.00 for damages to the property of others as the result of any one accident, and in the total sum of not less than $600,000.00 for or on account of any bodily injury to, or the death of all persons and for damages to the property of others.

Each vehicle operated in the performance of waste hauling services, as licensed under the Town of Lyons Commercial Waste Hauler Licensing Ordinance #977, is in maintained in road-worthy and good condition and statements one through five below, where applicable, are correct and true.

1. All compaction and roll-off vehicles designed and used for hauling putrescible (liquidcontaining) wastes, are leak proof at all times during operation.
2. All compaction vehicles are regularly maintained to ensure that compaction blades move freely, hopper plugs and seals are in place, in good condition (not cracked), and are leak proof.
3. Only vehicles designed to haul putrescible (liquid-containing) wastes are used for this purpose. Regular pick-ups, flat bed vehicles are only used to haul dry wastes.
4. All open-bed or open-top vehicles are provided with a tarpaulin of sufficient size to cover all loads entirely, and to be used whenever waste is being transported to avoid littering or loss of load onto the highway.
5. If vehicles have sideboards or a tailgate, these components are constructed of permanent materials.



I have completed the information being submitted above for compliance with the Town of Lyons Commercial Waste Hauler Licensing Ordinance #977, based on information and belief formed after reasonable inquiry; I certify that the statements and information contained in this submittal are true, accurate and complete.




I am aware that failure to provide true and accurate and complete information on this self certification form constitutes a violation of Town of Lyons Commercial Waste Hauler Licensing Ordinance #977 and is a class 2 petty offense as provided for in Section 30-15-402(1) C.R.S., and is punishable by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each separate violation and may also result in the suspension or revocation of my license.