It shall be unlawful for any person to maintain,
construct, alter or extend any mobile home park within the limits
of the Municipality unless he holds a valid certificate of registration
issued by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources in
the name of such person and also a permit issued by the Municipality.
All applications for a certificate of registration
shall be made by the owner of the mobile home park or his authorized
representative in accordance with the rules and regulations of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Environmental Resources,
Chapter 4, Article 415, Regulations for Mobile Home Parks, adopted
October 30, 1959, as amended.
Application for a mobile home park permit shall follow the requirements and procedures as established in Article
III of this chapter.
Whenever, upon inspection of any mobile home
park, it is determined that conditions or practices exist which are
in violation of any provision of this chapter or any regulations pursuant
thereto, the Council, or its representatives shall give notice, in
writing, to the person to whom the permit was issued. Such notice
shall consist of a listing of the violated sections of this chapter
and shall advise him that, unless such conditions or practices are
corrected within a period of time specified in the notice, the permit
to operate will be suspended. At the end of such period, such mobile
home park shall be reinspected, and if such conditions or practices
have not been corrected, the Council shall suspend the permit and
give notice, in writing, of such suspension to the person to whom
the permit was issued.
Individual mobile homes not located in a mobile
home park shall not be required to obtain a mobile home permit; however,
they shall be required to obtain a building permit and a zoning occupancy
permit. Individual mobile homes shall comply with all other applicable
municipal ordinances and regulations and all statutes of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
The initial fee for each mobile home park and the annual renewal permit fee for each mobile home park shall be established by Chapter
112, Fees.
No part of any mobile home park shall be used
for nonresidential purpose except such uses that are required for
direct servicing or recreation for the residents of the mobile home
park and for the management and maintenance of the mobile home park.
The gross density of a mobile home park shall
not exceed one mobile home for each 7,500 square feet of land within
the mobile home park.
Exposed ground surface in all parts of every
mobile home park shall be paved or covered with stone screenings or
other solid material or protected with a vegetative growth that is
capable of preventing soil erosion and the emanation of dust during
dry weather.
All mobile home parks shall be furnished with
lighting units so spaced and equipped with illumination placed at
such mounting heights as will provide a minimum of 0.4 footcandles
of illumination with a three-to-one or four-to-one maximum uniformity
ratio for the safe movement of pedestrians and vehicles at night.