[Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch.
1, General Provisions, Art. I).[1]]
[1]
Editor's Note: This article was originally adopted 9-14-1967
by Ord. No. 9-14-1967 but was added to this chapter during codification
pursuant to the requirements of 53 P.S. § 10501.
As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
A mobile home which does not have a flush toilet and a bath
or shower enclosed therein.
Any mobile home which has a flush toilet and a bath or shower
enclosed therein.
A trailer-coach or any other vehicle, which while upon the
public highways of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is subject to
all traffic laws and regulations of this Commonwealth and it is further
defined and declared to be a residence when parked in any mobile home
park or other area devoted to that purpose or when parked in any other
place, property and/or any vehicle used or so constructed as to permit
its being used as a conveyance upon the public streets or highways
and duly licensable as such and shall include self-propelled and non-self-propelled
vehicles as designated, constructed, reconstructed or added to by
means of accessories in such a manner as will permit the occupancy
thereof as a dwelling or sleeping place for one or more persons.
Any site, lot, tract or acreage of land upon which two or
more occupied mobile homes are harbored, stored or parked, either
free of charge or for revenue purposes, and shall include any buildings,
structure, tent, vehicle or enclosure used or intended for use as
a part of the equipment or service buildings of such mobile home parks.
A plot of ground within a mobile home park within or in the
vicinity of a mobile home park designated for the accommodation of
or parking space for one mobile home.
It shall be unlawful for any person to maintain or operate within the limits of the Township any mobile home park unless such person shall first obtain a license therefor. All mobile home parks in existence upon the effective date of this article shall, within 90 days thereafter, obtain such license and in all other respects comply fully with the requirements of this article, except that mobile home parks now in existence are relieved from complying with §§ 275-43 and 275-44 regulating the lot size to the extent of their present facilities.
The annual license fee for each mobile home
park shall be in an amount as established, from time to time, by resolution
of the Board of Supervisors.
A.
Application for a mobile home park license shall be
filed with and issued by the Board of Supervisors. Application shall
be made by the owner, proprietor or operator of the mobile home park,
shall be in writing, signed by the applicant and shall contain the
following:
(1)
The name and address of the applicant.
(2)
The location and legal description of the mobile home
park.
(3)
A complete plan of the park showing compliance with
the full and complete terms of this article.
(4)
Plans and specifications of all buildings and other
improvements constructed or to be constructed within the mobile home
park.
(5)
Such further information as may be requested by the
Board of Supervisors to enable it to determine if the proposed park
will comply with legal requirements.
B.
The application and all accompanying plans and specifications
shall be filed in triplicate. The Board of Supervisors, or its duly
authorized designee, shall investigate the applicant and inspect the
proposed plans and specifications. If the plans and specifications
of the proposed mobile home park will be in compliance with all provisions
of this article and all other applicable ordinances or statutes, the
Board of Supervisors shall approve the application and upon completion
of the park, according to the said plans and specifications, shall
issue the license. If the application is for a mobile home park, in
operation on the effective date of this article, the license will
issue forthwith if not, such license will be issued when the conditions
are corrected to meet such requirements, which must be within 90 days.
On and after the adoption and approval of this
article and thereafter annually at the regular meeting of the Board
of Supervisors in January, one person duly qualified as a Code Enforcement
Officer shall be appointed.
A.
It shall be the duty of the Code Enforcement Officer
to examine all mobile home parks within the boundaries of the Township
of White from time to time and, in the event that he shall find any
violations of the provisions of this article at any such inspection
after the original inspection on the application, he shall give a
written notice to the owner, proprietor or operator of such mobile
home park setting forth the said violations and it shall thereupon
be the duty of the aforesaid owner, proprietor or operator of the
aforesaid mobile home park to correct the conditions set forth in
the aforesaid notice within 15 days of the receipt of such notice.
B.
In the event that the aforesaid owner, proprietor
or operator of any mobile home park shall neglect, refuse or fail
to make the corrections set forth in such notice from the Code Enforcement
Officer within 15 days aforesaid, he shall then be subject to the
penalties for the violation of this article as hereinafter more specifically
set forth.
All mobile home parks and all mobile homes must
be well drained and located in areas free from swamps, marshes or
ponds and in such location as will be approved by the Board of Supervisors
and/or the Department of Health of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Every mobile home park shall contain mobile home sites of at least 5,000 square feet and have a minimum width of 50 feet, except as provided for transients in § 275-45 following, and each parking site must be clearly designated on the ground by posts or other similar markings.
No mobile home or any part thereof shall be
parked closer than 20 feet from the next mobile home when located
side by side or end to side, nor 15 feet from the next mobile home
when located end to end. No mobile home shall set less than 25 feet
from the right-of-way line, or less than 75 feet from the center line
of any state or federal highway. No mobile home, accessory building,
or any other structure, in a mobile home park shall set closer than
25 feet from any public right-of- way line used for road or highway
purposes, nor closer than 25 feet from any property line, nor less
than 32 feet from any existing building or structure.
Vehicles shall not be parked on any streets
unless the streets are of sufficient width to allow 20 feet of clear
driving space. A special designed vehicle parking space for each mobile
home parking site shall be provided with at least one parking space
per vehicle allowed for each mobile home space. No vehicle shall be
parked upon a mobile home parking site except where special parking
sites of not less than 30 feet in width and containing a lot less
than 2,000 square feet shall be provided and clearly marked as aforesaid
for overnight transient.
All streets and driveways in every mobile home
park shall have a minimum width of 20 feet and shall be drained and
maintained in a passable and reasonably dust-free condition at all
times.
Every mobile home park, and every portion thereof,
must be lighted at all times starting one hour after sundown and remaining
lighted until one hour before sunrise; such lighting must be with
electric lights of at least 200 watts located every 200 feet apart
and such lights must be placed at least 10 feet above ground on a
solid post, or such other lights as may be approved by the Board of
Supervisors.
Every mobile home park shall be so laid out
that the walking distance from any parking site housing a dependent
mobile home to service buildings will not exceed 300 feet. At least
one water outlet furnishing a safe drinking supply shall be located
within 100 feet of each parking site housing a dependent mobile home.
Plans for all sewer systems and disposal fields
must be approved by the Code Enforcement Officer before installing,
or, if in operation before the effective date of this article, and
not in conformity with the appropriate provisions of this article,
must be made to conform within 30 days of the effective date of this
article.
It shall be the duty of the owner, proprietor
or operator of the mobile home park to provide a connection or connections
from the mobile home for all liquid waste to the sewer system hereinafter
mentioned, and make and maintain such connections. Sewer connections,
or other disposal systems in unoccupied parking sites, shall be tightly
closed.
It shall be the duty of the owner, proprietor
or operator of every mobile home park to provide a receptacle of at
least 20 gallons capacity for every mobile home parking site, which
said receptacles shall be equipped with a tight lid and which receptacles
must be emptied semiweekly by such owner, proprietor or operator,
or his employees.
Where public water is available, adequate fire
hydrants shall be provided, and where public water is not available,
fire extinguishers of a type and size approved by local fire authorities
and by the Board of Supervisors shall be provided and shall be placed
so as to be convenient for all parking sites and shall be maintained
in a workable condition at all times.
An electrical outlet shall be provided for each
parking site to which at least 110 volts of electricity shall be supplied.
When an overhead system of electric distribution is used and the electric
current is transmitted by extension cord from the electric outlet
to the mobile home, the extension cord shall be of weatherproof material
and so supported that it will not be less than 10 feet above ground,
except at the ends where it is connected to the electric outlet and/or
the mobile home.
Each mobile home park accommodating or providing
space for dependent mobile homes shall have a service building devoted,
wholly or in part, to house sanitary facilities for the mobile home
park.
All buildings or parts of buildings used for
service accommodations in mobile home parks accommodating or providing
space for dependent mobile homes must be well heated, ventilated and
lighted, both by natural and artificial light, and have floors of
cement, terrazzo, tile or other impervious material with a cove base
extending six inches above the floor. All floors shall slope gently
to floor drains connected with the sewage system. Each service building
shall provide separate rooms for sanitary facilities for the male
and female sex. Each service room for males and females shall have
at least one private bathroom with a minimum of 35 square feet of
floor space equipped with on bathtub or shower bath, two wash basins
and two toilets.
Each mobile home park accommodating or providing
space for dependent mobile homes shall have sufficient service buildings
to provide for and shall provide one flush toilet, one shower, and
one lavatory for men, and at least one urinal for every 15 dependent
mobile homes and one flush toilet and one lavatory for women for each
10 dependent mobile homes, and, in addition thereto, there shall be
installed one shower or bathtub for each 10 dependent mobile homes.
In no case shall there be less than one complete bathroom and one
extra toilet and wash basin for each sex.
Each shower stall in service buildings in mobile
home parks accommodating or providing space for dependent mobile homes
shall have a connecting dressing compartment, equipped with a door
to insure privacy; size and construction of shower stall and dressing
compartment to be determined by the Township Supervisors regulations.
Each shower stall shall have a separate drain connection to the sewer
system. No mats, grids or wooden racks or cloth or other absorbent
material will be permitted for public use in the shower or on the
floor of the dressing compartment.
All toilets in service buildings in mobile home
parks accommodating dependent trailers shall be enclosed in private
compartment, the size of which shall be designated by the Board of
Supervisors or the Department of Health of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
No animal washing, car washing or other waste
creating practices shall be carried on in any building, structure
or other place not designated for such purposes.
It shall be the duty of the licensee to keep
a register containing a record of all mobile home owners and occupants
located within the park. The register shall contain the following
information:
A.
Name and address of each occupant.
B.
The make, model and year of all automobiles and mobile
homes.
C.
The license number and owner of each mobile home and
automobiles by which it is towed.
D.
The state issuing such license.
E.
The date of arrival and of departure of each mobile
home.
F.
Whether or not each mobile home is an independent
or dependent mobile home.
The park shall keep the register available for
inspection, at all times, by law enforcement officers, public health
officials and other officials whose duties necessitate acquisition
of the information contained in the register. The register records
shall not be destroyed for a period of three years following the date
of registration.
The management of every mobile home park shall
assume full responsibility for maintaining in good repair and condition
all sanitary and safety appliances on such park and shall promptly
bring such action as is necessary to prosecute or eject from said
park any person or persons who willfully or maliciously damage such
appliances or any person or persons who fail to comply with the regulations
of this article.
Every mobile home park shall have cesspools
or septic tanks and disposal fields located thereon which shall be
of sufficient size and capacity to adequately and completely dispose
of all waste material from all mobile homes parked in the park and
from all service buildings located therein, and there shall be watertight
connections from the same to each parking site with adequate traps
in each of the same to prevent any escape of odors. There shall be
no overflow from any such cesspool, septic tank or disposal field.
Notwithstanding anything herein contained to
the contrary, all requirements of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
and of the County of Indiana with respect to the existence of and
operation of mobile homes and mobile home parks with the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania and within the County of Indiana are deemed to be
regulations and requirements of this article and are incorporated
herein by reference and specifically made a part hereof.
Any person violating any of the provisions of
this article shall be liable, in a summary proceeding commenced before
any Magisterial District Judge, to a fine or penalty of not less than
$10 nor more than $1,000 plus costs and, in default of payment of
said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment not to exceed 90 days.
Each day on which a violation of this article shall continue and each
section of this article which shall have been violated shall constitute
a separate offense.
