Wake County Solid Waste Management Division

Solid Waste Hauler's Privilege License

The county page states that 'Wake County's Solid Waste Ordinance Section 50.05 requires all persons, firms and corporations engaged in the collection of garbage, refuse, solid waste or recyclables in Wake County to obtain a Solid Waste Hauler's Privilege License', and prices it at $100.00, with the application, a certificate of insurance and the cheque mailed to the Solid Waste Management Division. The trigger is doing the collecting: a demolition, site or landscaping contractor that hauls material it collects from other people's premises in Wake County is the business this license is aimed at, while a restaurant, retail store, salon or repair shop that puts its own refuse out for a licensed hauler is not the collector and does not buy it. The name is worth reading carefully, because 'privilege license' in it is the ordinance's own wording for a hauler license and not a surviving general business privilege tax; Session Laws 2014-3, s. 12.3(b) repealed G.S. 153A-152, the county privilege license tax statute, effective July 1, 2015. Applications run on a fixed window, May 1 through July 31 each year. The county page also warns that the haulers license is not a trash pass for using a box truck, dual-axle or enclosed trailer at the county convenience centres, which is a separate arrangement.